gender diversity

Is it gumption or ignorance? One of Australia’s largest manufacturers ARB still can’t find a woman for its board.

The Liberal party has a problem with women. The peak body for Liberal party members at university ALSF elected no women on its executive.

I was recently phoned by a journalist and asked to reflect on what the Labor government had done for gender equality.

As 20 Aussies stood before the G20 Young Entrepreneur Summit delegates at the Summit’s closing ceremony this week in Russia, we received the loudest roar of the day for something we promised to deliver as hosts of the event in 2014.

Labor may have “ditched the witch”, but does the ejection of Julia Gillard from her seat of power close the book on the debate about sexism that she championed and the role of women in leadership? Our first female prime minister is gone, but the feminist challenges she raised, and the battles she fought, are far from forgotten.

When we discuss gender in politics we focus a lot on women.

Labor’s new deputy leader in the senate, Senator Jacinta Collins, is an example of a woman who knows an opportunity when she sees one and the need to put her hand up to grab it.

What gets measured gets managed.

Less than two weeks after the new government unveiled a Cabinet with just one woman, we learn that the representation of women in our biggest organisations remains a low priority.

When it comes to gender equality, it seems, the work is never done.

Last Wednesday I was contacted by a producer for ABC’s Q&A.

The presence of only one woman, albeit a high profile one, in Tony Abbott’s cabinet has prompted renewed calls for the introduction of quotas to ensure greater numbers of senior women in government.