Rates of anxiety among young women are at alarmingly high rates, a new national study shows. The 2019 National Women’s Health Survey, conducted by the not-for-profit organisation Jean Hails, explored …
Yasaman Aryani took off her headscarf & was sentenced to 16 years in prison
In Iran, it’s a crime for women to appear in public with their hair uncovered. Yasaman Aryani, a 24-year-old Iranian woman, wanted to make change and ended up being sentenced to 16 years in pris…
US training seminar tells executive women their brains are small & pancake-like
Women’s brains absorb information like pancakes soak up syrup, so it’s hard for them to focus. This is what 30 female executives at Ernst & Young America were told during a training seminar in Jun…
#LetHerSpeak: Tasmania set to reform sexual abuse gag laws
Survivors of sexual abuse in Tasmania will soon be able to share their stories publicly, with the State Government set to change laws that prohibit victims from naming themselves in the media. The arc…
This photo of Nancy Pelosi standing up to Trump paints a thousand words
When US President Donald Trump tweeted this photo of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi standing purposely tall in a room full of men, he intended to use it as evidence of her being “unhinged”. In…
Brigid Kosgei wins Chicago Marathon, smashing 16-year world record
Kenya’s Brigid Kosgei has smashed a seemingly untouchable women’s world record, winning the Chicago Marathon on Sunday with a time of two hours, 14 minutes and 4 seconds. Kosgei took more than a…
Australia has a hunger problem: 1 in 4 women have experienced food insecurity in the past year
Despite Australia being a developed and wealthy nation, hunger and food insecurity are a growing reality. Over the past year, 1 in 5 Australians have been in a situation where they have run out of foo…
Men exaggerate their performance at work, women do the opposite: Research
Women tend to rate their own performance at work lower than men do, even when everyone is performing similarly well, according to new research that indicates a gender gap in self promotion may be occu…
History-making all-female spacewalk is back on, says NASA
After cancelling what would have been the first all-female spacewalk in March this year, US space agency NASA has announced the history-making expedition is back on. Christina Koch and Jessica Meir ar…
Rachelle Panitz was diagnosed with breast cancer at 32. It led her onto a brave new path.
Rachelle Panitz was diagnosed with breast cancer when she was 32. She had just given birth to her son six weeks earlier and also had a three-year-old daughter. Unsurprisingly, the diagnosis turned her…