Let’s help you find your Female X Factor:ġ. We need more female leaders in our business & community. What we need to do, is promote Female Uniqueness. Women miss advancement opportunities if they don’t have one key skill requirement. Women’s ego & bravado doesn’t quite match that of their male counterparts which I suspect stems from the testosterone levels in their chromosomal composition. “There’s a special place in hell for women who don’t support each other.” Madeleine Albright - First Female Secretary of State of the United States of America To action this, women need to support women.Īnd, inaction should be a punishable business offence. “More men need to sit at the table – the kitchen table and more women need to sit at the boardroom table.” Annabel Crabb - The Wife Drought We leave Equality aside and search for their Uniqueness.įemales different & diverse behaviours, strengths and feelings are needed at the table for a fair appraisal of decisions in the workplace. So, we unpack and repack with fashionably flexible items. Weighed down, unable to sprint when opportunities arise.

After the column, she was deluged with mail from women in all walks of life saying it wasn’t just politicians who needed wives - everyone should have one.Their emotional baggage from their many roles is exhausting. In the column she pointed out that “if women MPs were blessed with wives in the same way that male MPs frequently are, you might get a participatory uptick, because that way women wouldn’t have to choose between having a career in politics and having a family”. “At least they are more obedient than Kevin Rudd’s dog,” Crabb muttered as she carried on with her speech, surrounded by tiny cartwheelers.įederal Communications Minister Malcolm Turnbull and his wife, Lucy, writer and editor Anne Summers and a host of ABC presenters, including Leigh Sales and Emma Alberici, were there to hear Crabb say that she decided to write the book after writing a column about Tony Abbott’s decision to appoint one woman to cabinet. For any parents looking on, there is nothing funnier than the sight of someone desperately trying to corral their offspring by shooting them Julie Bishop-death stares, gesturing at them to sit down and then, at the point of shouting “all your Christmas presents will be burnt!”, giving up and admitting defeat.

It was the enlightened decision by the author, one of Australia’s best writers and broadcasters, to include her three small children. The best bit about the launch of Annabel Crabb’s new book, The Wife Drought, was not the celebrity-studded audience, the excellent speeches or even the delicious canapes.

The wife drought by annabel crabb