In this conversation, we followed some of the threads that created great energy at our National Congress of Women Day One event — Women Rising. Why Women? Why Now?
With guest conversationalists:
well-known broadcaster and social commentator Jane Caro AM ؘwho is known for her outspoken views on the need for more women’s leadership around action on climate change and other social issues, and
regular commentator on economics and sustainability Jane Gleeson-White whose riveting Guardian article in August 2021 (‘What really counts? How the patriarchy of economics finally tore me apart’) prompted much discussion among our members.
The '2 Janes' were in conversation with Women’s Climate Congress founding members Barbara Baikie and Janet Salisbury and the conversation certainly delivered on the title of 'Women speaking out'.
What really counts? Women speaking out for change, February 2022
Meet our guests
Jane Caro AM is a Walkley Award winning Australian columnist, author, novelist, broadcaster, documentary maker, feminist and social commentator. She spent 35 years as an award winning copywriter and 7 years teaching Advertising Creative in the School of Communication Arts at Western Sydney University. These days she is a full time writer, social commentator, speaker and broadcaster.
She has published twelve books, including three novels Just a Girl, Just a Queen and Just Flesh & Blood – a trilogy on Elizabeth Tudor, and a memoir Plain Speaking Jane. She created and edited Unbreakable featuring stories women writers had never told before, which was published just before the Harvey Weinstein revelations. Her latest book Accidental Feminists about the life story of women over 50 was launched in 2019. Her next book, her first novel for adults, The Mother, will be published in March 2022.
Jane appears frequently on ABC Western Plains, The Drum & Sunrise; created and presented 5 documentary series for ABC Compass (2015, 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019); writes a regular column in Nine Media; and her opinion pieces and articles appear frequently in The Saturday Paper, The Guardian and The Big Smoke. She is on the board of The Public Education Foundation.
Jane Gleeson-White is a writer and author of four books, including the internationally acclaimed history of accounting, Double Entry (2011), and its sequel Six Capitals (2020, 2014); and three long essays: ‘Erasure: Women, economics and language’ (Griffith Review 73, August 2021), ‘My womb is not terra nullius’ (Choice Words, 2019) and ‘Valuing Country’ (Griffith Review 63, 2019). You can find links to her work at www.janegleesonwhite.com. Jane has also written about economics, sustainability and literature for the Wall Street Journal, The Guardian, Bloomberg, Wired, The Age, Sydney Morning Herald, The Australian, Meanjin and Overland; and is a regular commentator on economics and sustainability, including for the Sundance Film Festival, United Nations and European Union.
This event was part of the National Sustainable Living Festival 2022.