Ed’s Blog

We’ve set Women’s Agenda a bold task for 2015: to tell 100 stories of female leaders, starting January 1.

On Monday morning I caught the bus into work and in between contemplating the week ahead on Women’s Agenda, our final week of publishing for 2014, my mind was vaguely pre-occupied with Christmas.

Here we are, almost at the end of 2014, and Prime Minister Tony Abbott has revealed the best thing he has done for Australian women this year in his capacity as Minister for Women.

This morning, Amanda Farmer got to contact about her recently launched business featuring an all-women team of lawyers.

A local campaign is currently underway to stop an Australian tour by American anti -accination campaigner Sherri Tenpenny, who believes vaccines can cause ADHD, asthma and autism, despite scientific evidence to the contrary.

Whether or not you ‘have it all’ as a new mother, the chances are that you’re negotiating ‘the majority of it all’.

Just before Christmas the family of Katrina Dawson, one of the victims of the siege in Martin Place, established a charitable foundation in her honour.

Pope Francis departed from his prepared address to encourage mothers to breastfeed their babies if they were hungry during a baptism he conducted for 33 children in Rome’s Sistine Chapel.

In Still Alice, Julianne Moore plays a 50-year-old Harvard cognitive psychology professor who’s built an incredible career, balanced with a family life that includes three grown children.

On Friday, the findings from the government’s public consultation into gender reporting were posted on the Department of Employment’s website.

The leader of the Christian Democratic Party, Fred Nile, has used another television appearance to continue his criticism of the male victims who were held hostage in the siege in Sydney’s Martin Place last year.

Where to start? On Tuesday The Australian published an article by the paper’s contributing economics editor Judith Sloan criticising the Workplace Gender Equality Agency.