Australia’s women remain an untapped resource in the hunt for productivity
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/aug/24/women-economic-reform-roundtable-productivity-australia
‘Female empowerment is more than just ‘nice to have’, as I was once told in the halls of parliament. It’s good economic policy’
Being reduced to an instrument for patriarchal hierarchies is women’s liberation now. Was the problem with the capitalist patriarchy that it objectifies women and values them only insfoar as they can be reduced to brood mares for capital, raising kids to working age as a public service to a for-profit economy completely for free?
I guess that’s agenda-driven, partisan ‘politics’ serving vested interests, and not mature, disinterested #girlboss politics for grownups and the adults in the room.
