Joe Hockey - completely out of touch with womens issues

[i-need-a-martini]

Of course it doesn't surprise me given who his boss is...

So yesterday he is invited to speak at The Executive Women Australia symposium about leadership, career advancement and board member opportunities. These women are some of the top female executives in the country. 

A friend of mine was there. She's a senior exec with CommBank and earns over $350k a year plus bonuses. She wanted to know (like everyone else there) how the Liberal Party were planning to address the unbalance experienced by professional women like her.

Instead of policies he talks about what a great asset women are in business, particularly in small businesses. And at length goes on about how his housewife mother went back to work to answer the phones at his fathers business to help him through a financial bad patch. He talks about how thrifty his grandmother was and how she struck it lucky by buying into some shares to help boost the family income.

He didn't answer a single question about policy. Only suggested that women get a good (male) mentor to help them in their careers (ignoring the fact that most of these women ARE already mentors for often junior male executives). He also said that when they were in government, they would "talk to men in senior positions to encourage them to give women better opportunities". And that women should ask corporate males "Why?" or "How would you feel if it was your daughter that was passed up for this opportunity?"

My friend walked out fuming. And she was still fuming this morning when we had a quick chat about it.

Why do I have the feeling the status of women is going to reel back 2 decades if the Liberals get in...?

[cherples]

I think MM added the graphs as I added the info on Joe Hockey and John Howard's spending...which also imo showed how he avoided answering those questions too.

MM brags about his neutrality whilst highlighting his prejudice and bias.

[monman12]

INAM: "And that graph relates to a talk given by Joe Hockey on progressing the career of executive women how...?"

Actually as a response to IS and post 19, excerpt:

"Australia's most needlessly wasteful spending took place under the John Howard-led Coalition government rather than under the Whitlam, Rudd or Gillard Labor governments, an international study has found."

"And this comment relates to a talk given by Joe Hockey on progressing the career of executive women how.?":

"It will take them 3 years to formulate some policies. By then everyone will have realised they voted in a government that had nothing to offer the country.

Go with the tangents  CL, JJ, INAM, TGSE, LL is good at it.

[monman12]

CL: "MM brags about his neutrality whilst highlighting his prejudice and bias."

OK CL, there are 2 years of records you can access here, so produce  a post/comment of mine wherein I "brag" about my neutrality.

[lakeland27]

the hunny could be seen to be implying that. i dont have any doubts about certain posters allegiance. but the hunny /sheep posts  have a hint of neutrality  in them (outwardly at least)

🙂 there ought to be a disclaimer.

[nero_bolt]

Lakeland can I just remind you of this.

Essential Media poll: Labor 45, Coalition 55

Roy Morgan poll: Labor 42, Coalition 58

and its only going to get worse for your beloved Labor and a wipe out is well on the cards. A huge wipe out

So get used to Tony and Joe 🙂

[pct001wine]

Lol Nero, you're getting to be like monman, just quoting the odds.

Government is far too important to be reduced to a set of numbers.

Let's improve the debate a bit. Why don't you talk about the Tony and Joe Show and their ... errr... policies ?

[just_me_karen]

It appears the lib hardliners here are akin to Lib politicians... lacking in original thought or policy and just posting other people's irrelevant graphs and polls. Ho-hum.

I wonder if the hockey speech will make mainstream media. I hope so, its about time they were held accountable for their backward social standards.

hockey autocorrected to Orkney lol

[cueperkins]

Original Thought?  -  :^O

[cueperkins]

Lol Nero, you're getting to be like monman, just quoting the odds.

Government is far too important to be reduced to a set of numbers.

Let's improve the debate a bit. Why don't you talk about the Tony and Joe Show and their ... errr... policies ?

Hear Hear !!!

[the_great_she_elephant]

Hear Hear !!!

 I doubt whether they actually will outline any policies,Cue. The sad truth is the electorate is so gullible at the moment  they will probably get in without having to do so - and we shall then be stuck with a government that can't be held accountable for anything it does because it never made any commitments.