Women on top

There are interesting questions to be asked about whether, generally, women do these jobs differently from men. "It's only been in the last 30 years that we've had the opportunity to see what female dominated large institutions would look like - it's historically unprecedented. We have no idea what pathologies or advantages those systems might have," said Jordan Peterson.

How about we look at the federal regulatory and oversight agencies enforcing rules for business and the economy? Women now run 33 of these vital organisations.

Here are the four women heading up Australia's Digital Platform Regulators. The blond is eSafety Commissioner, Julie Inman Grant, who's now hit the world stage taking on Elon Musk in increasingly outrageous attempts to control the world's internet content, threatening to fine the billionaire owner of the social media platform X more than $700,000 a day for refusing to remove a video of a terror stabbing.

Her crazy overreach even prompted a song encouraging a fightback. Have a look here It's pretty funny.

I first wrote about Inman Grant two years ago, pointing out her eSafety team was systematically downplaying the risks to boys and men from online abuse, ignoring the sexploitation of boys which Federal police were naming as an alarming, growing problem. She's still at it, endlessly banging on about gendered online abuse, claiming women have a unique perspective on online safety because of the "sexist, gendered vitriol levelled against us", and rarely a word about protecting men and boys.

It's interesting how many of these regulatory bodies now being run by women are concerned with "safety":

• eSafety Commission

• Civil Aviation Safety Authority

• Aged Care Quality & Safety Commission

• Safe Work Australia

• Aust Radiation Protection & Nuclear Safety Agency

• National Offshore Petroleum Safety Authority

• Aust Maritime Safety Authority

• National Rail Safety Regulator

Janice Fiamengo – the excellent men's rights advocate and fellow blogger – wrote recently about the risks of women, particularly feminist women, being in charge of our safety. Focusing on the Covid lockdowns, she pointed that it was feminists who pushed hardest for lockdowns and all the rest. "Covid mania was the definition of caring. Who screamed the loudest on Twitter about masking, hand-sanitizing, distancing, keeping children out of school, … who was most adamant about the need to shame, isolate, exclude and penalize the unvaccinated?"

Fiamengo suggests women are a population conditioned by fearmongering, with Covid providing a dramatic illustration of "the ease with which terrified and self-righteous women could be mobilized through irrational safetyism and scapegoating".

Fiamengo's warning that many women seem hard-wired to seek a "safe" rather than a "free world" surely has implications when it comes to putting women in charge of so many of our regulators.

But who are we to complain when the powers that be find new and exciting ways to celebrate our matriarchal society? Just look at the names of 10 most recent River Class ferries in Sydney:

• Ethel Turner

• Ruth Park

• Cheryl Salisbury

• Lauren Jackson

• Liz Ellis

• Kurt Fearnley

• Olive Cotton

• Margaret Olley

• Esme Timbery

• Ruby Langford Ginibi