by ahellofalotofglass.com | Aug 6, 2024 | Blog
Kate writes: I believe that true gender equality will only be achieved in our society when the last remnants of the patriarchy have been eliminated. I recently discovered two quirky phrases in relation to the patriarchy: The first is: ‘My favourite season is the Fall...
by ahellofalotofglass.com | Mar 27, 2024 | Blog
I was delighted and affirmed to read in the March 15, ’24 article of the Guardian Weekly written by Emma Dawson, executive director of Per Capita, headed Do our male leaders realise what women bring to the economy? Delighted, because she has written succinctly...
by ahellofalotofglass.com | Mar 14, 2024 | Blog
‘Inequality serves no-one!’ is how Katy Gallagher pitched her speech to the Press Club on Thursday, March 7, the eve of International Women’s Day. Gallagher, the Finance Minister and Minister for Women was launching the federal government’s...
by ahellofalotofglass.com | Mar 3, 2024 | Blog
I’ve been working in the field of gender equality since the mid ’80s (first as an equal opportunity consultant and then as a leadership coach primarily for emerging women leaders), and if someone told me back then that there would still be a gender pay gap...
by ahellofalotofglass.com | Feb 22, 2024 | Blog
I launched my book A hell of a lot of glass – achieving gender equality in the workplaces of Australia in the same week that the Women’s Economic Equality Taskforce submitted their report to the government and released their findings. (For more, see my...
by ahellofalotofglass.com | Jan 25, 2024 | Blog
Soon after they won the 2022 election the Albanese government established the Women’s Economic Equality Taskforce. Sam Mostyn was appointed as chair with the brief to provide independent advice to the government on how to boost women’s involvement in the...
by ahellofalotofglass.com | Nov 29, 2023 | Blog
I ‘met’ Anna Cody, Australia’s new Sex Discrimination Commissioner for the first time thanks to Benjamin Law’s Dicey Topics column in the GoodWeekend section of the Sydney Morning Herald on November 11 this year. Two things stood out for me in...
by ahellofalotofglass.com | Oct 29, 2023 | Blog
Kate Ramsay’s A hell of a lot of glass not only smashes the illusion of an equal playing field in today’s Australian workplace, but does this in a highly constructive and readable way. What sets it apart from other books on this subject is the fresh approach: it...
