News & Views How the end of Jobkeeper will disproportionately affect women As Jobkeeper ends, a survey of Australian workers has revealed that more men are returning to the office than women.
Girls & COVID Girls’ education hit hard by COVID. We must do everything we can to change this The result of COVID lockdowns and school closures is and will be hardest hit by girls. We have an opportunity to change this.
News & Views New report highlights dire impact of pandemic on girls’ education in South East Asia and Pacific Girls across South East Asia and the Pacific have experienced disrupted education, with many being forced to drop out of school altogether.
Education and economic opportunities Yasmin Poole: Which female leader most inspires you? So often, the answer is ‘my mother’ Yasmin Poole has been interviewing women across the Pacific about lockdowns and the gendered impacts of COVID-19.
News & Views ‘Education is everything’: A Boko Haram survivor on why educating girls has the power to change the world Education is everything. It is the key that unlocks doors. Unleashes potential. Unlocks dreams, writes Aishatu Alhajikabu.
News & Views COVID survey shows women do much more unpaid work than men The Bureau of Statistics survey on the household impacts of Covid-19 show women do more unpaid work in the home.
News & Views Google’s goal to overturn dire numbers of black women in tech Google’s The Grow With Google Black Women Lead is a new initiative providing black women with career development and digital skills.
News & Views Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala becomes first woman appointed director-general of World Trade Organization Nigeria’s former finance minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala has been appointed director general of the World Trade Organization.
Profiles Yanti Turang fought Ebola in Sierra Leone. Now she’s fighting COVID-19 in New Orleans. WHAT SHE DID NEXT talks to Yanti Turang, a registered nurse from Australia, working on the frontlines of the COVID-19 pandemic.
News & Views Four in five Australians faced burnout in 2020 Work management app Asana has found that Australians had one of the highest rates of burnout of any country in 2020.
News & Views Women experts on COVID-19 ignored on network television A study looking at the number of experts who appeared on mainstream television on COVID-19 revealed that only 30 percent were women.
News & Views A tough time for progress on women in tech, and sexism & harassment continues More than one in five women in IT have experienced sexual harassment and more than half saying they had experienced gender discrimination.
