By Bettina Arndt August 12, 2022
Last month, the ACT government announced they are requiring successful tenders for the build of a new school to have a 100 per cent female management team on site.
We’re talking about the construction industry, where women represent only 12 per cent of the workforce.
Yet Canberra building companies are now expected to come up with an all-female bunch of bosses to run building sites for the government contracts that keep the big firms in business.
Of course, that is the socialist republic of the Australian Capital Territory, which is utterly dominated by feminist bureaucrats.
But such ideological excesses are not confined to the mean girls who run Canberra with their soy boy colleagues. Our entire Federal public service has been overwhelmed by a tsunami of women over the last 30 years.
It all started with former Prime Minister Gough Whitlam, who proudly introduced positive discrimination to ensure more women were recruited into the then male-dominated Australian Public Service (APS). Suddenly public service job descriptions required a “demonstrated commitment to feminism”. Hester Eisenstein, an American who joined their ranks at the time, wrote gleefully about the “spectacle of very traditional-looking male bureaucrats, in pinstriped suits and conservative ties, reading over the credentials of women candidates and discussing seriously their respective claims to authentic feminist commitment”.
The old boys rolled over and ushered in a new feminist era, so that by 2001 half of all federal public servants were women.
From then on women absolutely took over and now we have reached the point where 31 of 96 government agencies have 70 per cent or more females.
These are the people writing government policy for our country, deciding how to spend our money, determining what matters and what doesn’t. Hardly surprising then that women’s business is always on the agenda, with Ministers for Women in both Commonwealth and State governments, while men’s issues are ignored.
We can plot the relentless female takeover as it gathered steam over the past 30 years, despite variations in politicians’ enthusiasm for matriarchal government.
Former PM John Howard made valiant efforts to stem the tide, announcing that with women having reached a majority in the APS, they would no longer be considered a disadvantaged group.
But another former PM in Malcolm Turnbull ensured women’s long march through these government institutions kept rolling on. As just one example, his government’s strategy aimed for more women on public service boards.
Within just five years, most members of APS boards were women.
The Department of Social Service has six boards, 69 per cent female, and women occupying all the chair and deputy chair positions. All key decisions are firmly in female hands.
Similarly, women are being relentlessly recruited to take the places of men throughout the public service and they now have the majority of both executive and senior executive positions.
DISPROPORTIONATE SHARE
More women than men are being recruited at almost every level in the APS, including executives, with women receiving a disproportionate share of promotions as well.
No surprise that they now have most of the plum jobs — with men now a minority at executive and senior executive (SES) levels.
The very senior rank, SES 3, still comprises 73 per cent men but this imperilled species of top dog must be feeling the female hoards snapping at their heels.
Getting rid of them will give another small nudge to the declining APS gender pay gap, which in 2020 was sitting at 6.6 per cent, down from 7.3 per cent in 2019 and 8.6 per cent in 2016. Funnily enough the small numbers in the top ranks mean that more female bosses won’t solve the pay gap “problem” which is largely due to the recruiting of so many more women into the lower pay roles, already dominated by females.
About a third of the APS is in the APS 1-4 classifications and only a third of them are men.
So how do the bureaucrats explain away the embarrassing lack of gender diversity in our national public service? Basically, they just pretend it’s not happening.
NOW THE BLOKES FEEL DISADVANTAGED
One rare exception was in 2018 when deputy public service commissioner Jenet Connell admitted that the 60 per cent female APS ratio resulted from “such a positive bias towards women” that young men were complaining of feeling disadvantaged.
She mentioned the APS study on blind recruiting which found when they removed references to gender on job applications, far more men got through the blind process, proof of the APS’s strong bias against men.
But, instead of proposing blind recruiting should become the norm, the commissioner simply stated the result was “interesting and we are having a look at that”. Don’t hold your breath.
It does your head in to read the weasel words pouring out from this mob as they celebrate gender diversity while steadily eliminating anyone ‘cursed’ to be born male Like weeds given a dose of Roundup, male public servants are being systematically eliminated. It’s actually far from a joke.
Maybe it wouldn’t matter if these female public servants simply did their jobs rather than using their positions to promote injustice towards men and boys.
But every day we see examples of biased policies tilted to favour women at the expense of men:
1. Like the Fair Work Commission, now 68 per cent female, which supported domestic violence leave, a handout which is impossible for employers to challenge.
2. The Federal Court Statutory Authority, 75 per cent female, which runs the family law system so notoriously unfair to men.
3. The Australian Human Rights Commission, 78 per cent female, which allows organisations to exclude men and rarely gives a hearing to cases involving discrimination against men.
4. The Health Department, 70 per cent female, which allocated $2.1 billion to services for women and girls and just $1 million to improve health outcomes for men and boys.
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Interesting to see this trend now in culmination. In a way it might prove that government can remain ineffective no matter who is in charge. It doesn't bode well for areas in which competition is required where those with excess testosterone often bully their way forward - and you do need those types in places.
Many women were over-promoted because of their gender. Look at the Leadership team at Transport for NSW. That babe could not even handle a strike!