Feminism debate is ‘not a cat fight’
Debates on women’s issues by women could be deemed cat fights unless men step up and change structures in the workplace, media professionals told “Time to put up or shut the **** up” panel discussion at Mumbrella360.
Television producer Anita Jacoby and Zenith Optimedia CEO Ian Perrin chipped into the debate fired up by *** Peta Southcombe in her article ‘Ladies could we shut the **** up?’, Elly Clough’s retort, “Why ladies shouldn’t shut the **** up”.
Jacoby said she has “lived and breathed gender discrimination” during her career and when she was second in charge on the Today show she said she went up for the top job three times, and each time it was given to a male executive producer. On the third occasion she went to hand in her resignation to the then head of news and current affairs – a man – gave her an associate producer role on 60 minutes.
“I was there with about 15 men and I kept going and saying I’m doing the same role as they are doing I should be a producer and it took me three years to get there,” she said.
