News & Views

It’s not hard to find women pictured and profiled in the mainstream media.

A new study shone a spotlight on women in tech’s stories of sexual harassment, discrimination and exclusion in the startup world.

Victoria continues to make progress on the number of women in leadership roles in its public service, with females comprising 44% of public sector executive positions in 2015.

Most Australians, especially women, understand how pervasive sexism is, according to new polling by Essential Research.

It’s never been so obvious to me as in past days that most men don’t appear to care much about violence against women.

This year’s incarnation of Pause Fest will offer more opportunities for startups, change-makers and creatives to connect, founder George Hedon says.

In issues as diverse as domestic violence to media representation, women have made themselves heard in 2015.

Apple’s Board of directors is comprised of two women, one African American male and five white men.

It comes as a shock to many when they realise that the apps and content on their computers and mobile devices are not their property to do with as they wish.

Mark Latham in his own words, for those of you unable or unwilling to listen to it, we did it so you don’t have to.

Pride and Prejudice (1813) is by far Jane Austen’s most popular novel but, for literary critics, Emma (1816) is more often ranked as her greatest achievement.

Emmeline Pankhurst, the grande dame of the suffragette movement, sent an angry telegram to the Australian Prime Minister Billy Hughes, condemning her daughter, Adela Pankhurst, for her opposition to World War I and compulsory conscription laws.