A scarcity of female leaders? Don’t buy the progressive myth. By Adam Creighton in The Australian.

Last week, following the release of this year’s Australia Day Honours list, a prominent Australian business woman declared we had “failed” as a society because the share of women receiving government gongs had plunged to “just 27 per cent”.

It was a staggering criticism given women now occupy a large swath of the nation’s top corporate and political positions. …

Is it too much to ask that we appoint the best people to these positions, male or female? Of course all these women are highly competent and intelligent public servants, but why draw attention to their sex, especially in 2026? …

There is no question men still lead most of the top public and private sector organisations in aggregate in Australia, but the direction and rate of change are startling. What message does this send to young men who, surveys show, are becoming increasingly extreme in their politics? …

Given the controversy over government censorship, was it wise to award eSafety commissioner Julie Inman Grant a public service medal for censorship on top of her $816,000 pay package? …

 

Albanese pays her $816k per year to censor us

 

My journalist friend Helen Andrews caused quite a stir in October on the publication of her essay, The Great Feminisation, which warned that the new-found dominance of women in law, medicine, politics and (in a few years) the corporate world would change society for the worse. Andrews argued that “female group dynamics (favoured) consensus and co-operation”, which wasn’t at all conductive to risk-taking and leadership. “In short, men wage conflict openly while women covertly undermine or ostracise their enemies.”

“If wokeness really is the result of the Great Feminisation,” she argued, “then the eruption of insanity in 2020 was just a small taste of what the future holds. Imagine what will happen as the remaining men age out of these society-shaping professions and the younger, more feminised generations take full control.”

I’m not sure about this thesis, but it’s surely time to stop the routine bleating about discrimination against women when, evidently and increasingly, it is the opposite. …

Some people argue it’s only right that men be discriminated against systematically given the centuries of obvious sexism and discrimination women have endured. But it’s hard to see how this helps the “social cohesion” Anthony Albanese says his government is so keen to foster.

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