Viewing entries tagged with 'Women'
What did Julia want?
This is a bit of a fantasy, and if I’m way off track, my apologies to you, Julia. But I was thinking about your recent actions and decided to write the following story. It is only fiction, but is based on real life......
Slut walk sends an important message
Its taken me a while to decide whether I should join the slutwalk or not, but I am definitely in.
Women, work and health
Is your job going to kill you? Do high level job demands increase the likelihood of serious illness? Are we as women really able to continue to manage a balanced work and home life, juggling what we have always done in an environment of increasingly demanding work expectations and sometimes even more demanding family expectations?
Brigadier McDade
Firstly, Brigadier McDade has 25 years’ experience as a military lawyer and has worked as a barrister, deputy coroner and civilian prosecutor. Let’s state that at the beginning, let’s not bury it at the bottom of the column.
Sticky floor syndrome
It's that time of year again – you know, the time that the Equal Opportunity for Women in the Workplace Agency to tell us, once again, how poorly women are doing in leadership roles in Australia. Some call it the glass ceiling, but I prefer to call it the sticky floor syndrome.
Will the real problem please stand up?
I have always believed that the first step in successful problem solving is to question your assumptions. This means understanding how you arrive at your interpretations of the world, and how that influences your thinking about the particular problem at hand, or how it can be solved.
A sorry story
Tony Abbott may be disappointed to learn that Pauline Hanson is moving to the UK, but on reading the findings of the Review into the Equal Opportunities in the Workplace Legislation I am almost tempted to go with her.
Women's rights are human rights
Securing a more equal footing for women in Australia cannot occur in isolation. I strongly believe that we need a Human Rights Act to strengthen the position of women and at the same time to address human rights abuses.
Educating girls and eradicating poverty
October 17 2009 is set aside by the United Nationals as International Day for the Eradication of Poverty. This year is the twentieth anniversary, and we still have a way to go.
So much to do, so little time!
It's not often that I get upfront and personal in this blog, but lately I have been busier than a lizard being chased by a cat in a room full of rocking chairs, if you'll pardon my addled adages!
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