Lucia Osborne-Crowley

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has sparked outrage on social media after saying the Bangladeshi Prime Minister has managed to fight terrorism “despite the fact that she is a woman”.

In 2003, Pakistani beautician, philanthropist and entrepreneur Massarat Misbah was closing up one of her many beauty salons when a veiled young woman walked in and asked her for help.

On Monday a host of new entrants into the Order of Australia were announced to mark the Queen’s Birthday.

In 1938 Ingeborg Syllm-Rapoport completed her PhD thesis in neonatology – the care of newborns – and submitted it to the university of Hamburg.

New South Wales’ first female Attorney General Gabrielle Upton today announced the appointment of the state’s first female Crown Solicitor, Lea Armstrong.

The familiar myth that corporate women who make it to the top actively try and keep other women down – ‘queen bee’ syndrome – has been debunked by a team of researchers at the Columbia Business School.

Scientist and Nobel Prize winner Tim Hunt told a room full of female scientists yesterday that he thinks science labs should be segregated based on gender because women simply cause too much trouble.

Human Rights Commission president Gillian Triggs has stated defiantly that she will not be resigning from her position despite mounting attacks from members of the federal cabinet.

Radio presenter Ray Hadley and Immigration Minister Peter Dutton have been accused of “sexist claptrap” after making offensive comments about Greens Senator Sarah Hanson-Young on 2GB radio.

In Australia, intimate partner violence is the number one non-disease related cause of death, disability and illness for women aged 15-44.

The issue of domestic violence is out of the shadows and into the light.

The number of women replacing men in C-suite positions in America reached a six-year high in 2014, with 70% more women being appointed to executive roles previously held by men.