It’s been over a week since Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull posted a photo of himself entitled “multitasking”, in which he was cradling his granddaughter at the footy, while “controversially” holding …
‘This is F*cked’: MP caught on mic yet another Liberal gaffe undermining female vote
Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you know that the Liberal National Party suffered a series of gaffes in the last 24 hours likely to further undermine its standing with female voters. First we …
Good intentions, but a fail on promoting Gender Equality
The 2017 season of the BBC’s 100 Women series launched to much fanfare earlier this month, the fifth in this award- winning endeavor. But based on what I have seen so far, the series seems to have los…
We’re still conditioned to question our experiences of sexual harassment
In the past year, the media has chronicled many high-profile women’s experience of sexual harassment. And alongside their accounts of harassment, their stories have often featured sexual harassment’s …
Striking early childhood educators are raising issues that affect all of us. They must be supported
With 3,000 early childhood educators set to walk off the job at 3:20pm today to protest their poverty wages, I had a strange sense of déjà vu. All the talk of the “undervaluing of women’s work” sent m…
Don’t let equal pay slide down your list of priorities or succumb to fatigue
It’s countdown to Equal Pay Day, which falls on September 4th this year. Equal Pay Day marks the additional time from the end of the previous financial year that women must work to earn the same as me…
Did Australian business leaders just pledge not to violate the most basic equal pay principle, and we’re happy about it?
Last week, 122 Australian business leaders publicly committed to closing the gender pay gap in like-for-like roles within their organisations. To support others to do the same, Male Champions of Chang…
Dads also needed in childcare Campaign for “Families”
On Sunday, News Corp and the non-profit group Parenthood launched a “Fair Go For Families” campaign about childcare. I wanted to love it. I really did. I wanted to channel Tom Cruise and jump up on th…
It’s an epidemic of mother shaming, not bad mothers
Mummy bloggers in the UK woke up earlier this week to find themselves splashed across the Daily Mail. In treatment usually reserved for the Daily Mail’s favourite straw man, immigrants, the paper opt…
It’s not good enough to accuse fathers of being uninterested shirkers
Yesterday the Australian Institute of Family Studies (AIFS) released a report that shows just 4 percent of fathers in two parent families are stay at home dads, compared to 31 percent of mums. It also…
