March 7, 2023 • 6 mins
It's time for an International Women's Day (IWD) round-up.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Jersey and Amanda gam Nation. Yes, International Women's Day and
lots of work still to be done. Hearing what Can
I Do for You story is about. I mean when
when overseas girls fighting for education, fighting for lives, for livelihoods,
But so much stuff is still to be done here, in
terms of family violence, in terms of super pay gap,
(00:21):
in terms of pay gaps, all that kind of stuff.
But lots of women are saying very moving and interesting
and powerful things in the last couple of days. I
was really taken with Jessica Rowe who said this yesterday.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
Let me take you back quite some years ago when
I was a news presenter at Channel ten in Sydney.
Now I was reading the five o'clock news along with
a male co host. This was a job that I
ended up doing for ten years. When I first started
this job, yes, I was junior. I didn't have the
experience that my co host had, so I knew I
(00:57):
had things to learn. Fast forward the clock. Six years
later it was and I still was not able to
read what we call the main news story, that is
the first news story that you will hear when you
switch on the TV news. It was always my male
(01:18):
co host job to do that. Come on, six years
into the role, I think it was time for me
to really have my turn, so to speak. So I
said to my boss, why is it that Ron gets
to read the lead news story and I don't. He
said to me, well, Lovey, that's because Ron's a man
(01:40):
and you're a woman. I wrote that down, and then
I decided to go to HR department and they tried
to laugh it off. Oh, he's joking. I said, no,
he's not joking. I said, if you look across the
entire network, not one woman reads the lead news news story.
(02:01):
The HR department didn't even know this, and so I
went away read the news that night. The next day,
my boss came to me and he said, you're going
to be reading the lead news story.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
I was like, yes, this is a win.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
You're watching the five o'clock news. My male co host
wouldn't talk to me for probably about six weeks because
he thought I was being uppitty. I didn't care though.
For me, that was a battle worth fighting, and from
that day on, every woman on the ten network got
their chance to read the lead news story, and they
(02:40):
alternated it with their male co host. So that is
why it is so important to call out discrimination when
you see it, but also more importantly to do it
when you have the power.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
Impressive, isn't it.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
You don't even think about that stuff and.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
Keeping this in the media for a moment. Lisa Miller
an incredible journalist on a very impressive woman. She does
breakfast radio on a breakfast TV on the ABC. She
has been she cops trolling like you wouldn't believe for
her clothes, for her so called bias. Both sides accused
her of bias, etc. But this week it was particularly
terrible about an outfit she'd worn, and the ABC pretty
(03:24):
much did an extraordinary thing of calling it out. They
often do call it out, but they're calling out other
media outlets who have contacted the ABC under the guise
of pretending that they're concerned for Lisa, but use this
as an excuse to republish the abuse. As the ABC says,
giving anonymous social media bullies publicity on a national platform
is participating in perpetuating anti social behavior. Very serious issue
(03:48):
of online abuse of women, especially on the eve of
International Women's Day. Please be more responsible. Michael Roland, her
on air colleague, has said enough enough of the abuse
comments about Lisa Miller and other female presenters. Enough of
amplifying the bullying by republishing offensive comments. Do better. That's
a call out to the media. Also, I follow Brooks Shields.
(04:08):
She has a platform called Beginning Is Now. This is
for women who are probably over fifty and looking for
the We talk about the third act of their lives.
And this is something that I saw yesterday, what the
mental load of women can look like. You should have
just asked, tell me what to do, and I'll do it.
I don't know what needs to be done. I can
do it if you leave me a list you never asked.
These are the things women get told if they say,
(04:32):
why didn't you do something? This is a your domestic
scenario at home or maybe at work, but the mental
load is often referred to as worry work and often
more often than not falls on the women's shoulders. O
mental load is about being the one in charge of
having to do the never ending list of to do items,
remembering what needs to be done, delegating the tasks, and
it is exhausting. The comments that this got was so interesting.
(04:56):
This is one I saw My husband and I spoke
about that. He spoke about we had a friend who
spoke about changing a doorknob in his home on Saturday,
how in the time it took him to complete the project,
his wife had completed forty seven other jobs, had kept
the kids out of the way because he was working
on a big project. They admired the work he'd done
on the doorknob. For some reason, that episode resonated with
(05:17):
my husband, who vowed not to be doorknob needy. He
stepped up and took over the infra. This is the thing,
the infrastructural work of our family, not just the one
of projects. Someone said with their husband, my husband's world
is small, mine is big. I live in the wheel's axis.
He gets to luxuriate in one or two spokes. So
(05:37):
when I ask him to take the dog out, when
I'm dealing with so many other things for so many people,
the last thing I want to hear is I did
it last time. So this is just a call out
to men. There's nothing more attractive to your partner than
you doing something unprompted, then you looking around and seeing
something that needs to be done and just doing it.
Because women do the worry work, they take the mental load,
(05:59):
and it increases burnout. It really really does someone. It's
National Women's Day. There's just some of the things we
can be thinking about. There you go, anything I need
to do for you around here, I'll let you know, Brendan,
but don't ask for a list. I want you to
observe and know
Jersey and Amanda gam Nation. Yes, International Women's Day and
lots of work still to be done. Hearing what Can
I Do for You story is about. I mean when
when overseas girls fighting for education, fighting for lives, for livelihoods,
But so much stuff is still to be done here, in
terms of family violence, in terms of super pay gap,
(00:21):
in terms of pay gaps, all that kind of stuff.
But lots of women are saying very moving and interesting
and powerful things in the last couple of days. I
was really taken with Jessica Rowe who said this yesterday.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
Let me take you back quite some years ago when
I was a news presenter at Channel ten in Sydney.
Now I was reading the five o'clock news along with
a male co host. This was a job that I
ended up doing for ten years. When I first started
this job, yes, I was junior. I didn't have the
experience that my co host had, so I knew I
(00:57):
had things to learn. Fast forward the clock. Six years
later it was and I still was not able to
read what we call the main news story, that is
the first news story that you will hear when you
switch on the TV news. It was always my male
(01:18):
co host job to do that. Come on, six years
into the role, I think it was time for me
to really have my turn, so to speak. So I
said to my boss, why is it that Ron gets
to read the lead news story and I don't. He
said to me, well, Lovey, that's because Ron's a man
(01:40):
and you're a woman. I wrote that down, and then
I decided to go to HR department and they tried
to laugh it off. Oh, he's joking. I said, no,
he's not joking. I said, if you look across the
entire network, not one woman reads the lead news news story.
(02:01):
The HR department didn't even know this, and so I
went away read the news that night. The next day,
my boss came to me and he said, you're going
to be reading the lead news story.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
I was like, yes, this is a win.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
You're watching the five o'clock news. My male co host
wouldn't talk to me for probably about six weeks because
he thought I was being uppitty. I didn't care though.
For me, that was a battle worth fighting, and from
that day on, every woman on the ten network got
their chance to read the lead news story, and they
(02:40):
alternated it with their male co host. So that is
why it is so important to call out discrimination when
you see it, but also more importantly to do it
when you have the power.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
Impressive, isn't it.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
You don't even think about that stuff and.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
Keeping this in the media for a moment. Lisa Miller
an incredible journalist on a very impressive woman. She does
breakfast radio on a breakfast TV on the ABC. She
has been she cops trolling like you wouldn't believe for
her clothes, for her so called bias. Both sides accused
her of bias, etc. But this week it was particularly
terrible about an outfit she'd worn, and the ABC pretty
(03:24):
much did an extraordinary thing of calling it out. They
often do call it out, but they're calling out other
media outlets who have contacted the ABC under the guise
of pretending that they're concerned for Lisa, but use this
as an excuse to republish the abuse. As the ABC says,
giving anonymous social media bullies publicity on a national platform
is participating in perpetuating anti social behavior. Very serious issue
(03:48):
of online abuse of women, especially on the eve of
International Women's Day. Please be more responsible. Michael Roland, her
on air colleague, has said enough enough of the abuse
comments about Lisa Miller and other female presenters. Enough of
amplifying the bullying by republishing offensive comments. Do better. That's
a call out to the media. Also, I follow Brooks Shields.
(04:08):
She has a platform called Beginning Is Now. This is
for women who are probably over fifty and looking for
the We talk about the third act of their lives.
And this is something that I saw yesterday, what the
mental load of women can look like. You should have
just asked, tell me what to do, and I'll do it.
I don't know what needs to be done. I can
do it if you leave me a list you never asked.
These are the things women get told if they say,
(04:32):
why didn't you do something? This is a your domestic
scenario at home or maybe at work, but the mental
load is often referred to as worry work and often
more often than not falls on the women's shoulders. O
mental load is about being the one in charge of
having to do the never ending list of to do items,
remembering what needs to be done, delegating the tasks, and
it is exhausting. The comments that this got was so interesting.
(04:56):
This is one I saw My husband and I spoke
about that. He spoke about we had a friend who
spoke about changing a doorknob in his home on Saturday,
how in the time it took him to complete the project,
his wife had completed forty seven other jobs, had kept
the kids out of the way because he was working
on a big project. They admired the work he'd done
on the doorknob. For some reason, that episode resonated with
(05:17):
my husband, who vowed not to be doorknob needy. He
stepped up and took over the infra. This is the thing,
the infrastructural work of our family, not just the one
of projects. Someone said with their husband, my husband's world
is small, mine is big. I live in the wheel's axis.
He gets to luxuriate in one or two spokes. So
(05:37):
when I ask him to take the dog out, when
I'm dealing with so many other things for so many people,
the last thing I want to hear is I did
it last time. So this is just a call out
to men. There's nothing more attractive to your partner than
you doing something unprompted, then you looking around and seeing
something that needs to be done and just doing it.
Because women do the worry work, they take the mental load,
(05:59):
and it increases burnout. It really really does someone. It's
National Women's Day. There's just some of the things we
can be thinking about. There you go, anything I need
to do for you around here, I'll let you know, Brendan,
but don't ask for a list. I want you to
observe and know
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