Just a Girl by Tammie Adele

  Working 5 to 9, making something of your own now And it feels so fine to build a business from your know-how Gonna move ahead, and there’s nothing that you can’t do When you listen to that little voice inside you Yeah 5 to 9, you’ve got passion and a vision Cuz it’s hustlin’ time, a whole new way to make a livin’ Gonna change your life, do something that gives it meaning   There’s a current boom of female entrepreneurs .             We’re literally taking care of business – working 5 to 9, as Dolly puts it. However, as discussed in Post 19 , we’re a long way of parity. But as we take on entrepreneurship full steam ahead, traditionally female dominated fields in the 9 to 5 world, such as education, still tend to have men running the show.             I mean, as I went through school in the late 80s and early 90s I had countless female teachers, a handful of male teachers and just one of four female principals. So if teaching is a female dominated field, why were females n

  Like a small boat On the ocean Sending big waves Into motion Like how a single word Can make a heart open I might only have one match But I can make an explosion   As a society Australia has been contemplating gender equity issues in the Olympics for some time now.             In the lead-up to the 2012 London Olympics the comedy duo Hamish and Andy tried their hands at synchronised swimming with a Czech male non-competition team. Their take home message was that it was sexist to not have a male synchronised swimming event in the Olympics . . .             Then, as the London 2012 opening ceremony was looming, the issue of who would be our flag bearer became a gender issue . Natalie Cook was portrayed as having a dummy spit. Maybe she was. However I think she had a fair point in saying that she had walked behind male flag bearers at four previous Olympics and it was time for a female to have the opportunity. That said, women had been given the honour before. Raelene