Turning the glass ceiling into a mirror
Outsider is amongst those who recognise that the leadership failures within AMP Limited and the major banks uncovered in the Royal Commission into Misconduct in the Banking, Superannuation and Financial Services Industry are appalling.
But just as Outsider does not question why former AMP CEO, Craig Meller continued to part his hair in the same place, he wonders why that once august publication, the Australian Financial Review chose to report on the beauty routine of former AMP chairman, Catherine Brenner.
Outsider raises this issue because some of his younger female colleagues were heard to utter phrases such as “gender-biased” and “undignified” when reading what is, after all, a tabloid publication.
Still, Outsider wonders what the AFR’s Karen Maley was thinking when she was told to write about Brenner’s departure and whether there was some legitimate context to raising the issue of the former AMP chair’s expenditure on beauty accessories or her capacity as a mother.
Outsider’s young colleagues noted that Maley continued to explore Brenner’s “formula for success” for the better part of a feature-length article, but, oddly, no one thought to mention the shaving and tonsorial routines of Meller or the AMP’s also departing corporate counsel, Brian Salter.
Perhaps the “glass ceiling” should be turned into a mirror so that some people can have a good hard look at themselves.
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