I don't really like mainstream saloons at all. I like a car with a little bit of something different about it.

I remember I used to have to rock the car back and forth until I heard this little click and then I could start it.Ī Citroen diesel C3. It only had one problem: the starter motor used to get stuck. It was the old-fashioned Mini, so it was a tiny little car with a great big steering wheel that was flat like an old-fashioned truck's. Her first novel, Just a Girl, was released this year. She has also published and co-authored two books, The Stupid Country: How Australiia is Dismantling Public Education and The F Word: How We Learned to Swear by Feminism. Other media: Caro has appeared on Sunrise, Q&A and the political forum on 702 ABC Sydney.Ĭareer highlights: Winning Cannes, AWARD and London International Advertising awards. She's particularly well known for her role as a panellist on The Gruen Transfer on ABC TV. She was the former Corporate Woman columnist at the Australian Financial Review.The low down: Born in London and based in Sydney, Caro is highly regarded as an author, lecturer, columnist and advertising writer. She shows that not only will this be better for women but for productivity as well, not to mention men and women's health and happiness at home and at work.Ĭatherine Fox is an award-winning journalist and author. She throws down the gauntlet, showing how business, defence, public service and community leaders might do it, rather than just talk about it. Her book is an important tool for male leaders who say they want to make a difference.

This searing book argues that insisting that women fix themselves won't fix the system, the system built by men.Ĭatherine Fox does more than identify and analyse the nature of the problem. Women are told they need to back themselves more, stop marginalising themselves, negotiate better, speak up, support each other, strike a balance between work and home. Wage inequality between men and women seems one of the intractables of our age. So why is gender inequality still such a pressing issue? Millions of words have been spent in our quest to explain men's seemingly never-ending dominance in boardrooms, in parliaments, in the bureaucracy and in almost every workplace.

The F Word by Jane Caro