Australian sex discrimination commissioner-turned misogyny hunter Elizabeth Broderick has discovered a lucrative business model, by Miranda Devine.

Take a traditionally male institution, add a media-driven sexism scandal, and call the gender experts of Broderick & Co to the rescue.

She’s produced reports to shock the nation, at upwards of $5,000 per page, showing that sexism, bullying, sexual harassment, and even rape, are rampant across the institution, and only a feminist agenda will save it.

The genius of this business model is that the institutions themselves pay for the reputational damage which ensues when unsubstantiated allegations of gender atrocities are unveiled.

“It’s like the Chinese who ask the family to pay for the cost of the bullet for the execution,” said a leader in one organisation which contemplated a Broderick Review.

The upside of the charade is Fairfax Media and the ABC will get off your back, for a time, because you’ve admitted your masculine culture is deplorable, and you’re “doing something” about it with an approved person from a politically correct organisation. …

She has cut a swath through the Australian Defence Force, the Federal Police, and the colleges of Sydney University are a work in progress.

The ADF spent a whopping $5.66 million for Broderick to review the “Treatment of Women at ADFA and in the ADF” for three years when she was still at the Australian Human Rights Commission.

Sydney University Colleges are next to be Brodericked:

Now Sydney University’s colleges are about to embark on their own gender re-education at a cost of $1,087,600 (plus expenses and GST).

The crisis which prompted vice-chancellor Michael Spence to call in Broderick & Co was intense media focus on “slut shaming” and alleged sexist incidents in colleges, which journalists regard as “cloisters” of male privilege (even though only one, St Paul’s, is all-male), which demean women in a “sexually violent way”, to quote the ever hyperbolic Sydney Morning Herald. …

To its credit, St Paul’s has said it won’t participate, instead exercising its “liberty as a self-governing body” to run its own confidential review of college life. …

There is no acknowledgment of the colleges’ Christian foundations, or rich 18th century heritage, just a presumptuous cultural revisionism which claims the values and sexual ethics of consultant gender experts somehow are superior.

Wesley College, Sydney University