To lean in or to lean out? That is the question many women are asking themselves in ‘post’-Covid times of exhaustion, overload and burnout. Does leadership require pushing through the inferno or stepping back from the brink? What does solidarity look like in the Zoom Age? Are solutions to the problems of persistent gender inequality structural or psychological, individual or industrial? And why are we still talking about this stuff??? An executive coach, a journalist and a unionist discuss the state of feminist affairs.

Celeste Liddle, Mothers and Others (Pan MacMillan) TBC

Kirstin Ferguson, Head and Heart: The Art of Modern Leadership (Penguin 2023)

Kristine Ziwica, Leaning Out (Hardie Grant)

Chair: Richard Denniss, Executive Director, Australian Institute

Recorded at the Bendigo Writers Festival on 7th May, 2023.