{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Community Kind - A 100 Women Podcast","title":"Episode 5: The Long Game: Gender Equity, Global Stakes and Why It Can't Wait I with Alison Terry","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":3128,"description":"The UN calls gender equality the goal that makes all sixteen other development goals possible. Right now, it's the one under organised attack.\nThis episode was recorded live in a room full of 100 Women members, some of whom have been here since the very first year in 2014. Alison Terry has spent her career at the intersection of governance, advocacy and action: Chair of UN Women Australia, director on listed and private boards, and co-leader of the Mentor Walks program in Western Australia. She joined 100 Women as a member in 2024, and this conversation is partly about why someone with that many demands on her time and energy chooses collective giving.\nHost Alicia Curtis and Alison cover the reality behind gender equity work in 2026: the pushback on language and reproductive rights at this year's Commission on the Status of Women in New York, the immediate on-the-ground cost of foreign aid cuts, and the $5.4 trillion of intergenerational wealth expected to change hands in Australia over the next two decades, much of it decided by women. Alison also shares the early-career moment she has never let go of, when a senior manager quietly crossed her name off a leadership program because she was pregnant.\nIN THIS EPISODE\nWhy SDG 5 (gender equality) underpins progress on poverty, health, education and climate, with concrete examples from girls' education and climate leadership\nBeing the first female manager at Holden to take maternity leave, and getting to write the rules that followed\nThe difference between mentors and sponsors, and why women need both\nCo-founding Mentor Walks in Perth in 2019, and why women-for-women walking mentorship works differently\nWhat actually happened at the 70th Commission on the Status of Women: gender apartheid called out, and the organised pushback on the shared communique\nWhy UN Women Australia fundraises for global operations rather than domestic projects, and the safety-net gap that explains it\nThe real-world impact of aid cuts on...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/2_SLQSsp9hNubdD3NaWU_qoHz5vQ2UIsjx3Ebmgz42k/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS8wNGFh/YmI1NzZiNDRmOTVi/ODRmZDEyZGE2NWIx/NWI2OS5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}