We’re fed up with the systems designed to keep us quiet and smiling
With the reckoning truth spoken by Grace Tame and Brittany Higgins last Wednesday at the National Press Club of Australia, has a new catalyst for change from the ever-present ‘boys club’ culture been reignited within the Australian marketing industry too? Lauren Swidenbank shares why she’s fed up with systems that’ve kept her quiet, ignored or poorly treated in the industry, and why she hopes Tame and Higgins are marking just the beginning of a change in an outdated culture in the industry.
Seeing Grace Tame and Brittany Higgins up onstage last week at the National Press Club has reignited a fire in many of us.
These two extraordinary women who spoke of being silenced in more ways than one, are sharing parallel experiences to what many of us have felt – and this includes myself.
Lauren Swidenbank
So incredible important these stories are shared – to break the silence on this underlying culture in some agencies (and organisations) I too have seen and been part of.
Thank you Lauren – and of course, the incredible Grace Tame and Brittany Higgins – for igniting this fire.