🧵About the “professional women” who determined this election narrative. Can we please not. Two reasons…(1) It credits a dominant strain of corporate feminism in Australia for this outcome that, in my opinion, has been complicit in the lost decade we’ve just seen in relation to gender equality. (2)

@Raecooper1 @FayCalderone @UnrollHelper Watching that press conference again the spin is noticeable. The attempt to claim the (limited) response in last year’s budget supported the inquiry’s “key recommendations”. Just not true. The positive duty is THE key recommendation. They funded some training and a website. 🤦🏻‍♀️ @Raecooper1 @FayCalderone @UnrollHelper @SenatorCash was also disingenuous about the positive duty at the press conference. It was the first question she and the PM were asked by a journalist, indicative of the extent to which the media understand it is the central principle of the inquiry. (1)

Seriously? Again ... seriously? Partly as a result of the gender pay gap, a figure that represents the myriad of workplace injustices women experience, women over the age of 55 are the fastest growing portion of the homeless population.

https://twitter.com/InsidersABC/status/1381038180305006593

And @andrewprobyn The PM clearly still doesn’t understand the gender pay gap. It is a composite figure that represents the myriad of ways women are disadvantaged in the workplace. Not just men and women paid differently for doing the exact same job. That’s the bloody point of it.