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A cross-party women?s caucus is fine, but I have a question
Women have already busted a gut to highlight the many challenges fine, female MPs face and have faced in Parliament â??آ*sexism, bullying, even the lowest of tactics used to undermine women’s credibility:آ*slut shamingآ*â?? and to address them head on.
Where are even three or four blokes in a Canberra cafe hatching a plan?<span class="_2wzgv D5idv _3lVFK">Loading All of these things which should not exist in a society claiming to respect women equally have been roundly called out by women, sometimesآ*at great personal cost. Yet now a new, all-female committee is required to throw even more energy into a problem not of women’s creation. Many women parliamentarians have also put themselves on the line to protest in the loudest way about the impact of sexism towards women in our houses of democracy, Julia Gillard’s misogyny speechآ*in 2012 being Exhibit A. More recently, talented women have used their feet to make it clear how inhospitable parliamentary life is to motherhood by leaving (Kelly O’Dwyer, Kate Ellis). They have defected and called out bullying and harassment (Julia Banks), and even thrown it all away after decades of slog which should have opened the way to the top job, having been passed over for a bloke (Julie Bishop). <span class="_2wzgv D5idv _3lVFK">Loading Liberal women have already been networking in a structured way via the vigorous efforts of the outgoing Minister for Women, Kelly O’Dwyer, who also started the Enid Lyons Fighting Fund in March last year to help support more women into winnable Liberal seats, and pledged $50,000 to it. One International Women’s Day later, she is on the way out the door, (having also been forced to endure an attempt from within her party to oust her from her seat while on maternity leave with her second child). When the well respected industrial relations minister announced she would leave Parliament to spend more time with her young family, she was subject to a volley of sexist insults, includingآ*being called “a bitch” and “a dog”. Yet, it’s up to a group of women to fight these awful working conditions? What reason do we have to believe a women’s caucus of any variety would be treated with any more respect than a bunch of high-powered, individual women with their parties’ backing have been? Julia Banks’ parting words suggest even a group of the best and fiercest would struggle. â??Often when good women call out or are subjected to bad behaviour, the reprisals, backlash and commentary portrays them as the bad ones; the liar, the troublemaker, the emotionally unstable or weak, or someone who should be silenced,â?* Banks said. As Herald columnist Jacqueline Maley noted at the time of Banks’ resignation, “Newsflash: it’s not women who are the problem.” The real news would be if a bunch of heavy-hitting guys laid down their guns and, “cross-party caucus” style, joined women at the barricades. Wendy Tuohy is Lifestyle editor. Most Viewed in Lifestyle <span class="_2wzgv D5idv _3lVFK">Loading Source link More ??????? ??????: A cross-party women?s caucus is fine, but I have a question || ??????: ahlam1399 || ??????: اسم منتداك
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