‘When do you think it’s likely you’ll be looking to take maternity leave again?’ ‘How many kids are you planning on having?’ ‘Given you’ve got young children, do you think we’re going to be able to re…
‘We’ve got this moment in time’: Meet Sarah Styles, Head of Engagement at Cricket Australia
An investment banker with strategy experience and an indoor virtual golf business on the side, Sarah Styles seemed to have the perfect combination of skills for a position at Cricket Australia. Styles…
Why all CEOs must ensure their employees feel psychologically safe
Just over a year ago, on the way to an end of year celebratory drink, our team were caught up in the Flinders Street incident. My Co-CEO and two of my team were hospitalised with injuries, two were ne…
What every teenage woman needs to know when going to the doctor
Mélissa Godin and Alexis Doyle We are raised to think that doctors know the solutions to all of our medical problems. We are taught to see doctors as objective individuals and medical science as a p…
Mary Fowler, 16-year old soccer star, named in the Matildas World Cup squad
On Tuesday, Matildas coach Ante Milicic named the 23 player squad he will take to the 2019 FIFA Women’s World Cup in France. Among the 23 players named was teen sensation Mary Fowler. The 16-yea…
Knock Down the House: The women who took on the US Congress
Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is a cultural icon – the millennial face of US politics – but little more than a year ago, she was working as a waitress and living in The Bronx. Netflix’s lates…
Women married to men do more housework than single mums, study finds
Women married to men spend more time doing housework than single mothers. The assumption that single mothers would be burdened with more housework has been dispelled by new research that found married…
Many young women find pleasure in sexually explicit material but it still reinforces gender inequality
New research indicates that pornography contributes to the lives of women in complex and often contradictory ways, ultimately reinforcing existing social inequalities, writes Sarah Ashton from Monash …
‘Mother’s Day?’ Don’t make me laugh: Jane Caro
How regularly it rolls around – the one day of the year when we offer an off-hand, mostly self-interested, sentimentalised ‘thank you’ to our creators – aka our mothers. I am on the record (in this ve…
Caster Semenya, sport & the policing of women’s bodies
It seemed like an ordinary day for Caster Semenya, the South African-born two-time Olympic track champion, as she cruised to win the 800m at the Doha Diamond League meet last Friday. It was her thirti…
