Soapbox

The childcare reforms passed by the Senate last week – the biggest in a decade – will reward some women and their children and punish others.

Speaking in front of an audience is hard enough.

In the past few weeks I’ve been to three female-focused events where the MC or event organiser opened the session by asking the audience to clap for the men in the room.

Caitlin Iles recently presented on how women offer businesses the greatest commercial opportunity of our lifetime.

Major sponsors are bringing women’s sport to our televisions and into the mainstream.

When it comes to feminism, do ‘women who want equality with men lack ambition’? Eva Cox, from the University of Technology Sydney explores what next for gender equality in this piece republished from The Conversation.

Lauren Sams always dreamt of being an author and has just published her second book, Crazy, Busy, Guilty.

The OECD report was about women’s workforce participation rates in Australia not stay-at-home mums being a drain on the economy.

CEO Jonas Prising believes workforce gender equality could be further threatened by current trends in automation.

In her book Breaking the Mould, journalist Angela Pippos writes about the time a well known man exposed himself to her and explains why she said nothing.

Can we reconcile organised religion & feminism? I find it hard to merge the idea of being a feminist with an inherently patriarchal religion.

It started with the launch of the Women’s Agenda Ambition Report last Thursday, followed by a panel session on the findings with Sadhana Smiles, Rhonda Brighton-Hall, Georgie Dent and Mark Jones.