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Speaker 1: Jersey and Amanda gam Nation. Yes, International Women's Day and

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Speaker 1: lots of work still to be done. Hearing what Can

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Speaker 1: I Do for You story is about. I mean when

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Speaker 1: when overseas girls fighting for education, fighting for lives, for livelihoods,

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Speaker 1: But so much stuff is still to be done here, in

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Speaker 1: terms of family violence, in terms of super pay gap,

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Speaker 1: in terms of pay gaps, all that kind of stuff.

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Speaker 1: But lots of women are saying very moving and interesting

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Speaker 1: and powerful things in the last couple of days. I

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Speaker 1: was really taken with Jessica Rowe who said this yesterday.

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Speaker 2: Let me take you back quite some years ago when

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Speaker 2: I was a news presenter at Channel ten in Sydney.

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Speaker 2: Now I was reading the five o'clock news along with

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Speaker 2: a male co host. This was a job that I

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Speaker 2: ended up doing for ten years. When I first started

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Speaker 2: this job, yes, I was junior. I didn't have the

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Speaker 2: experience that my co host had, so I knew I

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Speaker 2: had things to learn. Fast forward the clock. Six years

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Speaker 2: later it was and I still was not able to

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Speaker 2: read what we call the main news story, that is

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Speaker 2: the first news story that you will hear when you

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Speaker 2: switch on the TV news. It was always my male

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Speaker 2: co host job to do that. Come on, six years

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Speaker 2: into the role, I think it was time for me

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Speaker 2: to really have my turn, so to speak. So I

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Speaker 2: said to my boss, why is it that Ron gets

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Speaker 2: to read the lead news story and I don't. He

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Speaker 2: said to me, well, Lovey, that's because Ron's a man

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Speaker 2: and you're a woman. I wrote that down, and then

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Speaker 2: I decided to go to HR department and they tried

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Speaker 2: to laugh it off. Oh, he's joking. I said, no,

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Speaker 2: he's not joking. I said, if you look across the

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Speaker 2: entire network, not one woman reads the lead news news story.

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Speaker 2: The HR department didn't even know this, and so I

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Speaker 2: went away read the news that night. The next day,

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Speaker 2: my boss came to me and he said, you're going

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Speaker 2: to be reading the lead news story.

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Speaker 1: I was like, yes, this is a win.

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Speaker 2: You're watching the five o'clock news. My male co host

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Speaker 2: wouldn't talk to me for probably about six weeks because

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Speaker 2: he thought I was being uppitty. I didn't care though.

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Speaker 2: For me, that was a battle worth fighting, and from

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Speaker 2: that day on, every woman on the ten network got

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Speaker 2: their chance to read the lead news story, and they

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Speaker 2: alternated it with their male co host. So that is

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Speaker 2: why it is so important to call out discrimination when

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Speaker 2: you see it, but also more importantly to do it

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Speaker 2: when you have the power.

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Speaker 1: Impressive, isn't it.

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Speaker 2: You don't even think about that stuff and.

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Speaker 1: Keeping this in the media for a moment. Lisa Miller

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Speaker 1: an incredible journalist on a very impressive woman. She does

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Speaker 1: breakfast radio on a breakfast TV on the ABC. She

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Speaker 1: has been she cops trolling like you wouldn't believe for

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Speaker 1: her clothes, for her so called bias. Both sides accused

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Speaker 1: her of bias, etc. But this week it was particularly

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Speaker 1: terrible about an outfit she'd worn, and the ABC pretty

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Speaker 1: much did an extraordinary thing of calling it out. They

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Speaker 1: often do call it out, but they're calling out other

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Speaker 1: media outlets who have contacted the ABC under the guise

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Speaker 1: of pretending that they're concerned for Lisa, but use this

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Speaker 1: as an excuse to republish the abuse. As the ABC says,

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Speaker 1: giving anonymous social media bullies publicity on a national platform

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Speaker 1: is participating in perpetuating anti social behavior. Very serious issue

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Speaker 1: of online abuse of women, especially on the eve of

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Speaker 1: International Women's Day. Please be more responsible. Michael Roland, her

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Speaker 1: on air colleague, has said enough enough of the abuse

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Speaker 1: comments about Lisa Miller and other female presenters. Enough of

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Speaker 1: amplifying the bullying by republishing offensive comments. Do better. That's

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Speaker 1: a call out to the media. Also, I follow Brooks Shields.

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Speaker 1: She has a platform called Beginning Is Now. This is

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Speaker 1: for women who are probably over fifty and looking for

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Speaker 1: the We talk about the third act of their lives.

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Speaker 1: And this is something that I saw yesterday, what the

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Speaker 1: mental load of women can look like. You should have

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Speaker 1: just asked, tell me what to do, and I'll do it.

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Speaker 1: I don't know what needs to be done. I can

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Speaker 1: do it if you leave me a list you never asked.

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Speaker 1: These are the things women get told if they say,

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Speaker 1: why didn't you do something? This is a your domestic

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Speaker 1: scenario at home or maybe at work, but the mental

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Speaker 1: load is often referred to as worry work and often

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Speaker 1: more often than not falls on the women's shoulders. O

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Speaker 1: mental load is about being the one in charge of

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Speaker 1: having to do the never ending list of to do items,

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Speaker 1: remembering what needs to be done, delegating the tasks, and

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Speaker 1: it is exhausting. The comments that this got was so interesting.

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Speaker 1: This is one I saw My husband and I spoke

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Speaker 1: about that. He spoke about we had a friend who

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Speaker 1: spoke about changing a doorknob in his home on Saturday,

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Speaker 1: how in the time it took him to complete the project,

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Speaker 1: his wife had completed forty seven other jobs, had kept

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Speaker 1: the kids out of the way because he was working

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Speaker 1: on a big project. They admired the work he'd done

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Speaker 1: on the doorknob. For some reason, that episode resonated with

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Speaker 1: my husband, who vowed not to be doorknob needy. He

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Speaker 1: stepped up and took over the infra. This is the thing,

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Speaker 1: the infrastructural work of our family, not just the one

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Speaker 1: of projects. Someone said with their husband, my husband's world

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Speaker 1: is small, mine is big. I live in the wheel's axis.

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Speaker 1: He gets to luxuriate in one or two spokes. So

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Speaker 1: when I ask him to take the dog out, when

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Speaker 1: I'm dealing with so many other things for so many people,

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Speaker 1: the last thing I want to hear is I did

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Speaker 1: it last time. So this is just a call out

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Speaker 1: to men. There's nothing more attractive to your partner than

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Speaker 1: you doing something unprompted, then you looking around and seeing

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Speaker 1: something that needs to be done and just doing it.

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Speaker 1: Because women do the worry work, they take the mental load,

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Speaker 1: and it increases burnout. It really really does someone. It's

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Speaker 1: National Women's Day. There's just some of the things we

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Speaker 1: can be thinking about. There you go, anything I need

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Speaker 1: to do for you around here, I'll let you know, Brendan,

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Speaker 1: but don't ask for a list. I want you to

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Speaker 1: observe and know