From garbos to the Mayor’s office, Ipswich a model of gender balance

Thursday April 15, 2021

If there was any lingering suspicion that local government is the last bastion of male-dominated employment, Ipswich City Council is one organisation painting a very different picture.

Ipswich waste truck driver Belinda Janson. Photo: ICC

Since Ipswich voters last year elected their first female mayor in the council’s 161-year history, more and more women have been filling executive roles.

This week, Mayor Teresa Harding welcomed acting CEO Sonia Cooper and has recently seen her first chief of staff, Bronwyn Voyce, replaced by another woman, Melissa…

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