Opinion: Given the choice between a frosted cupcake at an empowering morning tea and a pay rise, most women will choose the latter. But they don’t often get that choice
Given the choice between a frosted cupcake at an empowering morning tea, and a pay rise, most women will choose the latter.So, on International Women’s Day, which its critics argue has been corporatised beyond recognition, they will usually take the cupcake at the company morning tea, pink-iced and sugary with the promise of a better tomorrow.
Says Baird: “I’ve stopped going to those early morning things, personally, because I feel it’s too much.” There is also an International Men’s Day, on November 19, but it is not recognised by the United Nations. Future Women is running a two-day leadership conference to coincide with IWD, culminating in a 400-seat gala dinner at the Ivy in Sydney on Wednesday night.A panel of Aboriginal women including playwright Nakkiah Lui, academic Amy Thunig and writer Larissa Behrendt will speak to guests.McCabe expects the Voice to parliament will be a dominant theme.
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