It seems that only the sudden elevation of Julia Gillard as Australia's first female Prime Minister has caught the world's eye, but a quiet revolution has been underway for a while.
The pictures here speak louder than words.
Australia's Head of State - Governor-General Quentin Bryce
Prime Minister Julia Gillard and Environment Minister Penny Wong
Deputy Leader of the Federal Opposition Julie Bishop
New South Wales Governor Marie Bashir
New South Wales Premier Kristina Keneally
Queensland Premier Anna Bligh
And that's just the political sphere. There are scores of women in the federal and state parliaments, including some ministers. This is just the set of those who have risen to a position of unquestioned eminence.
Business has been less progressive, but here too, the bastions have begun to fall.
Gail Kelly, CEO of Australia's largest bank (Westpac)
A quiet social revolution has been taking place in Australia, and while the country can obviously lay legitimate claim to the label of an equal-opportunity society (don't let the focus on gender distract you from the ethnicity of Marie Bashir and Penny Wong above), a recent article titled The Invisible Men uncovers a new and possibly disturbing side to modern Australian gender relations.
Watch this space. This is no decadent society. This is social ferment at its best.
The pictures here speak louder than words.
Australia's Head of State - Governor-General Quentin Bryce 
Prime Minister Julia Gillard and Environment Minister Penny Wong
Deputy Leader of the Federal Opposition Julie Bishop
New South Wales Governor Marie Bashir
New South Wales Premier Kristina Keneally 
Queensland Premier Anna Bligh And that's just the political sphere. There are scores of women in the federal and state parliaments, including some ministers. This is just the set of those who have risen to a position of unquestioned eminence.
Business has been less progressive, but here too, the bastions have begun to fall.
Gail Kelly, CEO of Australia's largest bank (Westpac) A quiet social revolution has been taking place in Australia, and while the country can obviously lay legitimate claim to the label of an equal-opportunity society (don't let the focus on gender distract you from the ethnicity of Marie Bashir and Penny Wong above), a recent article titled The Invisible Men uncovers a new and possibly disturbing side to modern Australian gender relations.
Watch this space. This is no decadent society. This is social ferment at its best.
1 comment:
"Figures show 24 per cent of all ASX 200 board appointees so far this year were female compared to just 5 per cent in 2009."
More on that here http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/06/26/2937766.htm
The Invisible Man was a good read. Might explain the growth of the DINK movement.
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