News & Views

San Francisco-based food review website Yelp has fired one of its customer service employees hours after she wrote a public essay condemning the company for not paying employees a living wage.

Moralising commentaries about the Safe Schools Coalition are dangerously out of touch with the science of sex, the social research about gender and the realities of the ways that young people already understand their own sexual and gender identities.

If you care about doing your job well and (equally) the opinion of others, have you occasionally been up for the Office Doormat award? “No!” you think, “I’ve always stuck up for my rights, as well as my responsibilities.

The issue of poor female representation in movies has been examined from many angles, from the lack of women in positions in power to investors wary of female-led films.

Gender inequality of women starts early and follows them for their entire lives.

A new deputy secretary at a “blokey” primary industries department has a plan to give women a fair go.

“The right to freedom can never be absolute, because it must be consistent with the freedom of others.

Two not-for-profits are joining forces for an event backed by Microsoft that will aim to empower young girls with the various possibilities of the tech world.

Hardware chain Bunnings has taken action against sexist behaviour towards its employees in at least one Melbourne store.

HerBusiness has inducted another 20 Australian female business owners into its annual ‘Hall of Fame’, including Leona Edmiston, Stephanie Alexander and Lisa Messenger.

Yep, we can’t see these films being made either…  Check out these three trailers created by Sydney Opera House & Paper Moose in response to Lenny Letter’s Realistic Female Driven Film Treatments.

The Australian Public Service has racked up some impressive wins for the progress of women since the ban on married women was lifted some 50 years ago, but it also has three recent stains, Australia’s top public servant revealed today.