It's not just professional, high-income women who demanded change on election day. Women who work in early childhood, disability care, aged care and nurses also voted for change. They are equally fed up, writes Jamila Rizvi | OPINION
Eighteen months ago, I watched my son “graduate” from childcare on Zoom. His beaming face revealed not so much pride in an achievement he didn’t understand, but a deep thrill at the presence of so many colourful balloons and streamers.
Like many, I sat glued to my TV on election night. A change of government doesn’t come around often in Australia, so when it does, it’s historic. News coverage, however, focused less on Anthony Albanese’s new government and more on the wave of teal independents – largely professional women – elected.
“If you can earn more working at Bunnings than you can in aged care, then people are going to do that.” While a decent wage would not have eased the pressure, provided certainty, or undone the trauma of nursing through a pandemic, it couldn’t hurt, right? And 90 per cent of Australia’s nurses are women, underscoring once again that caring work is undervalued because it’s “women’s work”.
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