Virginia Gordon, 60: ‘Why does no one care for our safety?’
Gordon told Crikey
she saw Susan Ryan transform the workplace with the Sex Discrimination Act
in 1984 and watched her own workplaces implement sexual harassment training sessions and appropriate processes to report sexual violence across the ’80s and ’90s.
I am shell-shocked by the lack of action on the lack of safety for women at work, women at home and women in the community.
How can it be 2021 and workplaces do not have in place the policies, mechanisms and practices to protect women as has been shown by the political horror stories which sicken me to the stomach. I spend a lot of time in Canberra and know well the “away from home” culture that “excuses” so much. It’s a workplace above everything and the total lack of leadership takes my breath away.