Women 's Agenda

A new 30% gender target for briefing barristers has had widespread buy-in from some of the country’s largest law firms, as well as the in-house legal teams of Telstra, Woolworths and Westpac.

The Parenthood has partnered with Fair Agenda to make it loud and clear they want Senator Nick Xenophon to stick to his original promise on paid parental leave.

Melody Shiue has designed everything from rapid blood testing kits to wearable ultrasound belts for pregnant woman.

It’s not just domestic policy that will be shaped by the next US president.

Lisa Gorton and Charlotte Wood have been named joint winners of the 2016 Prime Minister’s Literacy Award for fiction, with the $80,000 prize divided between them.

Guess what? Women are just as capable and talented as men in STEM fields! That’s despite less than one in four IT grads and one in 10 engineering grads being female, and a significant lack of women in leadership across such industries.

Erin Mulvey is waging a war on meaningless compliance training in workplaces, which she says does little more then “create resentment and ensure impoverished minds”.

Yes, you’re entitled to your opinion, but as Danielle Wood from the Grattan Institute writes, it helps if you’re a man.

Given large companies inevitably employ both the victims and perpetrators of domestic and family violence, they have a responsibility to play a part in addressing the problem.

Labor MP Emma Husar has delivered an emotional speech in Parliament detailing her personal experiences with domestic violence, noting that for too many years she’s been embarrassed and ashamed when she should not have been.

US President-Elect Donald Trump has named South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley as his top pick for becoming the US ambassador to the United Nations, someone he’s previously said is an ’embarrassment’ to the people she represents.

We must include and support Muslim women when talking about financial resilience, says Maha Abdo, the CEO of the Muslim Women’s Association who shares her story below.