The Federal election is yet to be called but the battle for the seat of Warringah, in Sydney’s northern beaches, began in earnest months ago. The incumbent is the former Prime Minister Tony Abbott who…
‘You can’t be what you can’t see’ & women in media aren’t being seen
As a journalist with a career spanning more than 35 years, and a lecturer and an academic in journalism, it’s fair to say Jenna Price is familiar with Australia’s media landscape. Even still, she was …
What’s in the 2019 Budget for women? Very little
Another year, another Federal budget. And, sadly, another entirely missed opportunity to commit to anything bold or visionary for women in Australia. Nothing to move the dial on any of the structural …
How the Australian budget process is failing women
Ching! Ching! Can you hear it? The promise of cash flowing to women? It’s budget day in an election year and you can bet that women across Australia are about to be offered money. Some hastily cobbled…
Men, we need to talk: The tough reality about gender equality
Earlier this week, a new report was released by Chief Executive Women (CEW) and Bain & Company that is likely to take the wind out of sails of all the engaging men to achieve gender equality enthu…
Is there an ‘impenetrable’ girls’ club in corporate Australia as Graeme Samuel says?
Earlier in the week former competition watchdog chairman Graeme Samuel made an observation that a ‘nuclear bomb’ was necessary to blow apart the ‘impenetrable’ club of women th…
3 in 4 men support gender equality in the workplace but most don’t act on it
Most men in the workplace (76%) are supporters of gender equality yet only 17% prioritise taking action. This is the key finding from Bain & Company and Chief Executive Women’s (CEW) seventh Austr…
Saudi women are going to college, running for office and changing the conservative country
Saudi women are much more than mere victims. Increasingly, they are becoming a diverse group that defy the law to expand women’s rights, writes Alainna Liloia, from University of Arizona, in thi…
(Another) UPDATE: Treasury gives TWO spots to women’s groups in budget lock up
On Tuesday we reported that a number of community organisations representing women, children and Indigenous Australians, that have routinely attended the annual Federal budget lock up, had been exclud…
Gender parity ‘107 years’ off if trends persist, warns UN General Assembly President
Globally, women account for less than 7% of world leaders and only 24% of lawmakers. These recent statistics confirm that when it comes to global political power, women are still markedly behind men. …
