Women in combat in the Australian Defence Forces

My latest article in The Monthly looks at women already fighting on the front line.  Read article

Cracking the perspex ceiling

Time we had this discussion.  Read article

Australian Women on the Verge

My Keynote Address to the National Labor Women’s Conference in Brisbane on May 14 in which I celebrate Labor’s success in women’s political leadership but call on the government to take urgent action to improve women’s workforce participation by addressing equality in employment via the EOWA legislation, and to radically reform childcare. Nat Labor [...]

Finally…

COAG meeting, Canberra 13 February 2011. L to R: Queensland Premier Anna Bligh, New South Wales Premier Kristina Keneally, Prime Minister Julia Gillard

Government no longer leading on women’s employment

In Australia in the 21st century the private sector is taking the lead in promoting equality for women in employment and championing women to be leaders in the business world, a field the federal government once had made its own.  Read my article in the Sydney Morning Herald, December 18 2010

Women going backwards on Wall Street – and everywhere

It is becoming a depressingly recurring theme: the numbers for women are not good, whichever way you look at them. Read this comprehensive description of the state of play for women’s employment in the US from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania

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