What needs to be done to get equal numbers of women in politics
Source: Ten Daily
By Abby Alexander,
Marian Wright Edelman once said, "you can't be what you can't see."
Last week, data released by PLAN international confirmed what, sadly, many of us already felt to be true: zero percent of young adult women in Australia have any desire at all to work in politics.
The data isn’t surprising. The type of sexist behaviour directed at Senator Sarah Hanson-Young on the floor of parliament last month is not an anomaly, and if Julia Gillard had been treated as badly as she was in any workplace other than Parliament House, she could have taken them to court for workplace bullying and harassment. It’s par for the course for female politicians in Australia to be bullied and belittled.
Why would any woman want to enter a workplace like that.
Click here to read the full article published by Ten Daily on 23 July 2018.
By Abby Alexander,
Marian Wright Edelman once said, "you can't be what you can't see."
Last week, data released by PLAN international confirmed what, sadly, many of us already felt to be true: zero percent of young adult women in Australia have any desire at all to work in politics.
The data isn’t surprising. The type of sexist behaviour directed at Senator Sarah Hanson-Young on the floor of parliament last month is not an anomaly, and if Julia Gillard had been treated as badly as she was in any workplace other than Parliament House, she could have taken them to court for workplace bullying and harassment. It’s par for the course for female politicians in Australia to be bullied and belittled.
Why would any woman want to enter a workplace like that.
Click here to read the full article published by Ten Daily on 23 July 2018.