Michelle Smith, Deakin University

Random House Australia   A 34-year-old British-born writer has won Australia’s most prestigious literary prize.

  Why is it that when a woman talks, she is more likely to be understood as excessively vocal, irritating, or a nag as compared with when a man speaks? Eddie McGuire recently joked about drowning journalist and football commentator Caroline Wilson.

Random House Australia   A 34-year-old British-born writer has won Australia’s most prestigious literary prize.

Since her tongue-poking and “twerk”-filled performance at the American Video Music Awards, Miley Cyrus has been the subject of intense media discussion.

Can you think of a female equivalent of political reporter Laurie Oakes on commercial television? She would be aged over 60 (or 70 is Oakes’s case) with extensive knowledge of the area on which she reports.

7mate will broadcast the first season of the new Australian Legends Football League beginning in December.

Australian university campuses last week marked Bluestocking Week, a celebration that remembers the first women who entered English universities in the late 19th century.

It is now more than a week since actress Emma Watson delivered what has repeatedly been described as a “game-changing” speech about sexism at the United Nations New York headquarters.