Paul Hogan's reptile-wrestling tough guy from the 1986 movie Crocodile Dundee typified Australia's reputation for "mateship", a creed of male friendship that often excludes women. A quarter of a century on, it's costing the country billions.Don't take my word for it - take the Prime Minister's. ''I've always thought the Australian culture is blokey," Julia Gillard said last month. "It's not acceptable to me in the modern age that we can look at boards of major corporations and not see one woman."
Nor should it be to the men ruling over those corporate suites. If basic fairness won't convince them, hit them with something harder to ignore: money.
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