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This week, Hollywood sweetheart Brad Pitt showed it’s not just Millennials who can get away with gender-challenging fashion roles when he wore a skirt to the premiere of his latest film in Berlin. Bullet Train . When asked on the red carpet why she chose to wear a skirt, the 58-year-old simply replied: “A breeze. A breeze.” Brad has previously hinted at wanting men to feel more comfortable in skirts Mode in 2004: “Men will wear skirts next summer. That’s my prediction and statement.” Brad Pitt made a fashion statement by wearing a skirt on the red carpet this week. Photo: Getty Images Brad is promoting his film Troy at that time and wearing the clothes of those times had clearly set off something in him. “This film answers both genders. We went for realism and the Greeks wore skirts all the time,” she said. Brad isn’t the first man in Hollywood to wear a skirt. RELATED In 1998, at the height of his football career and after gettin...

Lydia Gentle has loved every minute of the 17 years she has spent working in the resources sector. Key points: One in five workers in Queensland’s resource industry are now women, up from 6 per cent in 2006 The sector is still far from the Queensland Resource Council’s target of 30 per cent female labor force participation by 2026 Not everyone agrees that targets are the solution to achieving a diverse workforce But it’s not easy cutting his teeth in a male-dominated industry. “When I started, even when I was at university, I was probably one of the few women out of over 100 men,” Ms Gentle said. “I didn’t realize it was a male-dominated industry when I started studying, but I learned it very quickly.” She said the lack of visibility of women in the industry, especially in leadership positions, made her feel out of place. “I don’t really have any female role models I can respect,” she said. “It’s very difficul...