When a woman’s ambition appears to become the story
AMP chair Catherine Brenner needed to step down, but is the reporting about her symptomatic of a larger problem regarding how we view women’s ambition?
I’m as disgusted as the next person about the details coming out of the banking royal commission — particularly those which implicate AMP. I could see few other options other than for AMP chair Catherine Brenner to ‘step down’.
Brenner’s now the biggest scalp to go since the start of the commission, following on from now former AMP chief executive, Craig Meller.
Tanya Plibersek described Brenner’s resignation as “something that needed to happen”, while Treasurer Scott Morrison said that few Australians would be shedding a tear following her departure.
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