WOMEN’S WORK

IT HAS BEEN illegal to advertise jobs by gender for many years, although perhaps not as many as you might think. Specifying male or female applicants for particular positions has been unlawful since the passage of the Human Rights Commission Act 1977. (More than 40 years later, it still happens on a de facto basis, of course, but that’s another matter entirely.)

In the and were on at the pictures; the inquest was being held into the death of Mary Jo Kopechne on Chappaquiddick Island; a “political wonder boy” with the surname Trudeau was swept into office in Canada; and the was looking for a bloke to take pictures.