News & Views How to be an ‘enthusiologist’ and change entire systems To say Professor Julie Bernhardt is changing the world is an understatement.
News & Views Hard Evidence: do we become more conservative with age? Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has no heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains.
News & Views Two thirds of Australian authors are women and they’re making technology work for them An Australian first study of Australian authors highlights the dramatic and profound impact that technology is having on authors and the publishing industry.
News & Views Lush stands firm on “naked” marketing despite ad watchdog ruling against a poster featuring nude women Lush Australia will not change how it approaches marketing despite a decision by the Advertising Standards Board to uphold a complaint against the homemade cosmetics brand’s campaign to raise awareness of excess packaging that featured nude women.
News & Views Sexism isn’t any less abhorrent when it’s directed at right-wing women You’d think we learned our lesson during the Gillard years.
News & Views How we can stem the tide of online harassment and abuse Young adults aged 18 to 24 are more likely than older Australians to experience some forms of digital harassment and abuse, according to new research from RMIT and La Trobe universities.
News & Views ‘Bros funding bros’: Why VC isn’t moving with the times New data compiled by The Information and Social Capital suggests the tech industry in the United States is just “bros funding bros”.
News & Views Women playing sport in the spaces that used to be just for men England and Australia have a long and complicated history both on and off the sporting field.
News & Views Driving change: boys, cars and sexism Sometimes, all you need to do to make a difference to long-held attitudes, like sexim, is explain the truth of things to kids.
News & Views How G(irls)20 Summit is helping inform the G20 about women and girls Imagine you are in a room with women from 26 other countries.
News & Views Economic importance of women in the workplace Considerable strides have been in recent years toward gender equality in the Australian workplace, spurred not only by a societal conception of fairness, but also in recognition of the contribution of women to the bottom line of companies and the economic benefit to the country.
News & Views Whose meritocracy are we talking about when it comes to appointing board members? Often merit-based selection is propped up as an apparent argument against targets and quotas to improve the representation of women.