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Rio Tinto’s push to protect women is making both sexes angry

The miner’s attempt to address sexual harassment, racism and bullying captures the collision between the push for increased diversity for the marginalised and another against so-called wokeness.

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Two years into Rio Tinto’s attempt to address sexual harassment, racism and bullying across its organisation, the miner has released a progress report that is at turns infuriating, inspiring, heartbreaking, provocative, encouraging and deeply worrying. Most importantly for the rest of corporate Australia, it’s also radically transparent.

But it is also a document very much of our time, one that captures the collision of two very modern forces: the push for increased diversity for the marginalised, and the push against so-called wokeness.

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James Thomson is senior Chanticleer columnist based in Melbourne. He was the Companies editor and editor of BRW Magazine. Connect with James on Twitter. Email James at j.thomson@afr.com

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