Women 's Agenda

The House Speaker Nancy Pelosi told Donald Trump she would not authorise the State of the Union address until the government is re-opened.

Once again Jacinda Ardern has proved to be a breath of fresh air on the world stage, urging leaders to act on climate change at the World Economic Forum.

Women are significantly overrepresented in teaching, which is often put down to gender differences in occupational preferences. Could it be something else?

Three thousand women and men marched in Sydney on Sunday as part of the Women’s March global protest in major cities to fight for women’s rights.

Peter Dutton leads the list of unwanted “hard right” politicians, followed by Tony Abbott, according to a poll by GetUp last week.

The male only Tattersall’s Club prepared to enter the 21st Century last night, when its members voted to allow women to join the club. 

Kimberly Walpot is an engineer who has travelled the world to try something new and forge a global career in the oil and gas industry.

Without appropriate legal aid funding the Law Council of Australia says the proposed ban on cross examining DV survivors will not be realised.

Our highlights package: Featuring Tanya Plibersek, Pip Marlow, Emma Alberici, Dr Kirstin Ferguson, Professor Gillian Triggs, and many, many, more.

More listening, engagement and action is required to close the unemployment gap, writes Zoe Staines from the Queensland University of Technology, in this piece republished form The Conversation. 

Emma Rugge Price and Yasmin Allen have been appointed to lead Advance, an organisation aiming to connect more than one million Australians living overseas. 

Heart disease is a major killer of women all over the world. So why the lack of awareness? And why are women’s symptoms so frequently missed?