Introduction
Catherine Jane Caro AM (born 24 June 1957) is a feminist social commentator, writer and lecturer based in Australia.
Early life and education
Caro was born in London in 1957 and emigrated to Australia with her parents as a five-year-old in 1963. She attended Macquarie University, where she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts with a major in English literature in 1977.
Working life
Caro, following her father's lead, started her career in marketing, however soon moved into advertising.
Caro has appeared on Channel Seven's Sunrise, ABC television's Q&A and as a regular panellist on The Gruen Transfer.Caro has worked in the advertising industry and lectures in advertising at the School of Humanities and Communication Arts at University of Western Sydney. Caro was a speaker at the 2014 Festival of Dangerous Ideas.
She is on the boards of the NSW Public Education Foundation and Bell Shakespeare.
In Australia, Caro is represented by Wall Media management.
A strong proponent of public education, Caro is also a feminist and atheist. Caro had been tipped to run against Tony Abbott in the 2019 Australian federal election, for his long-held Sydney seat in the Australian House of Representatives, the Division of Warringah, but instead publicly advocated voting for the Australian Greens, Sarah Hanson-Young specifically.
In 2018, Caro won the Women in Leadership Award in the 2018 Walkley Awards. She was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) in the 2019 Queen's Birthday Honours in recognition of her "significant service to the broadcast media as a journalist, social commentator and author".
Publications
- The Stupid Country: How Australia is Dismantling Public Education (co-authored with Chris Bonnor) (2007), ISBN 9781742246246
- The F Word. How we learned to swear by feminism (co-authored with Catherine Fox) (2008), ISBN 9780868408231
- Just a Girl (2011), ISBN 9780702238802[1]
- Chris Bonner & Jane Caro, What makes a good school?, New South Books (2012), ISBN 9781742241418
- Contributor to For God's sake: An Atheist, A Jew, A Christian and a Muslim debate religion (2013), ISBN 9781742612232
- Editor of Destroying the Joint: Why women have to change the world (2013), ISBN 9780702249907[2]
- Just a Queen (2015), sequel to Just a Girl, ISBN 9780702253621
- Plain-speaking Jane, biography and memoirs (2015), ISBN 9781743534847
- "Unbreakable" Women Share Stories of Resilience and Hope (2017), ISBN 9780702259678
- Just Flesh and Blood (2018), ISBN 9780702260018
- Accidental Feminists (2019), ISBN 9780522872835