Entrenched Sexism Is Very Australian. Let’s Uproot It

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'From the boardroom to the workplace, it’s been a horrible year for women. And one of the worst places has been Australia.

Company boards — still overwhelmingly male — are failing to meaningfully hold executives accountable for bad behavior. Large institutional investors must double down on insisting diversity in the C-suite is non-negotiable, as gender-parity initiatives stall.

Or have we? The corporate world is run by a network of old boys whose connections are forged at single-sex private schools. Women continue to be subjected to violence at home at such a rate that the prime minister declared it a “national crisis” after a spate of killings earlier this year. Unwanted and aggressive attention on a night out is far too common.

“Australia has a cultural problem with women in leadership,” Governor General Sam Mostyn told Bloomberg News three years ago when she was president of women’s leadership advocacy group Chief Executive Women. She noted there was a lack of respect for women at work, and a failure to take advantage of the strides they had made in education.'