hink of it all - of the life that is! Study your friends and foes!
Study the past! And answer this: "Are these times better than those?" The life-long quarrel, the paltry spite, the sting of your poisoned pride! No matter who fell it were better to fight as they did when the world was wide.
Equality of Opportunity
"Thus imagine my surprise to find myself shedding a tear as I read Hillary's concession speech: "You can be proud that, from now on, it will be unremarkable for a woman to win primary state victories, unremarkable to have a woman in a close race to be our nominee, unremarkable to think that a woman can be the president of the United States. And that is truly remarkable."Back in the real world, it is still very remarkable for women to be appointed to the board of one of our Australian Stock Exchange top 200 companies.
What is it that needs to be done to make the appointment of women to the board of directors of one of our top 200 companies unremarkable?
The Standing Committee of Attorneys-General has been asked to consider what role government can play to increase the number of women on our private sector boards."
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...Hopefully a by-product of this role won't be the encouragement of a national culture which instils girls and young women with the belief that if they don't devote their lives exclusively to self-orientated careers in business, they are not 'successful'.
While many women are naturally ambitious and self-striving on the one hand, on the other hand many do not value a life of puritanical career advancement in the world of business but instead value more functional or creative or human-orientated or community-based occupations and also, (gasp), their families.
Pushing both men and women further away from their families and communities and into empires of the individual will not, I hope, be the outcome of this focus on equality of opportunity.