Life Mother’s Day can be so painful without your mother but community can help “It is almost unbearable to see advertisements and images everywhere of women pictured with their mothers, smiling and doing things together.”
Life ‘Childless, but not by choice’: After years of failed fertility treatment, I’m embracing Otherhood For the women who could never have the baby they always wanted, we need a group and a term and a way to connect.
Uncategorised Jada Pinkett Smith and Black women’s hair: History of disrespect leads to the CROWN Act Until Black women can wear their hair how they want without risk of ridicule, reprimand or termination, a joke targetting Black hair is no laughing matter.
News & Views Vale Estelle Harris. Thank you for bringing us these (and many more) magic moments US film and television actress famous for her role in Seinfeld Estelle Harris passed away over the weekend of natural causes at 93 years old.
News & Views From ‘pretty communist’ to ‘Jabcinda’ – what’s behind the vitriol directed at Jacinda Ardern? Extreme abuse directed at Jacinda Ardern is part of a wider problem of sexism and misogyny in politics. Research suggests it may be on the increase.
Climate Yesterday’s disappointing federal court decision undoes 20 years of climate litigation progress in Australia Environment minister Sussan Ley successfully argued that she doesn’t have a duty of care to protect young people from climate change. Here’s why the judges unanimously ruled in her favour.
News & Views The National Gallery of Australia releases gender equity action plan The National Gallery of Australia has launched a Gender Equity Action Plan to accelerate gender equity in all its programs and exhibits.
News & Views Strike a pose for International Women’s Day? Give me a break The idea that we focus on these issues for one day, implies that we spend the other 364 doing something else altogether. And the evidence suggests we do.
News & Views Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen to donate part of her salary to Ukraine relief efforts Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen has announced she will donate one-month’s salary to the humanitarian relief efforts for Ukraine.
Women's Health News Solitude can teach us so much about our bodies, emotions and thoughts: Dilpreet Kaur Taggar Dilpreet Kaur Taggar, Founder of South Asian Today, shares her raw and honest thoughts on exercise, and how she finds ways to enjoy it.
News & Views Why can’t we value and pay for the emotional cost of caring? Essential workers in caring professions such as nursing, aged care and early childhood education are burning out across Australia, but researchers say there could be an inventive way to fix the system.
Uncategorised ‘Stand with us’: Leading First Nations women on what the AFLW Indigenous Round means to them This week is the AFLW’s Indigenous Round, dedicated to acknowledging the contribution of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.