How gender politics became a hot potato for this playwright
A campaign to close a pay gap between men and women left a country town spitting chips, but provided rich pickings for Melanie Tait.
Playwright Melanie Tait: “I learnt pretty quickly, and the hard way, that I had been arrogant and naive.”
In the fight over the gender pay gap, a campaign to secure equal prizemoney for men and women carting spuds around a regional showground might seem like, well, small potatoes.
But when playwright and ABC broadcaster Melanie Tait approached the organisers of the annual show in Robertson, in the NSW Southern Highlands, to even up the ledger, she set off a culture war that divided her former home town and turned her into a pariah.
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