Lucia Osborne-Crowley

Treasurer Joe Hockey has attracted yet more criticism over the budget’s backflip on paid parental leave after he suggested that federal ministers’ wives were double dipping in secret.

Young children are better off growing up with a mother who works than one who doesn’t, new research has shown.

The average working Australian mum is 95% less likely to retire with comfortable levels of savings than the average working Australian male, new data has shown.

Last night, the final episode of Mad Men aired and one last hour of haunting television heralded the end of an era.

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Employers and unions are demanding that the government reconsider its policy policy on paid parental leave.

The stringent aesthetic expectations placed on women are many and varied.

The Royal Commission into child sex abuse has begun investigating allegations of sexual abuse of asylum seeker children in Australia’s detention centres, making the Department of Immigration and Border Protection the first federal government department to be investigated by the commission.

On average, Australian workers are each entitled to $10,000 in lost superannuation, according to new research.

The UK will soon have a database dedicated to providing journalists with female sources based on Australia’s own Women for Media program.

Acclaimed actress Maggie Gyllenhaal has spoken out about Hollywood’s inability to treat women fairly – especially if they are so bold as to undergo the process of aging.

South African Paralympian Oscar Pistorius is likely to be released from prison in August – after serving just ten months of a five year sentence for killing his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp.