Published: September 27, 2020
With no other women around the cabinet table, Ryan delivered legislation that made sexual harassment unlawful, and it was a world first
In mid-1983 I received a phone call from Susan Ryan. Would I be interested, she asked me, in applying for the job of head of the Office of the Status of Women?
This was the women’s policy advice unit that had languished in low-status and non-powerful bureaucratic backwaters under the Fraser government, but which the newly-elected Hawke government had given a boost in power and prestige by placing it within the top federal Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet.
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