News & Views How men in power can and must step up for women It is men who must move from passive ally to active advocate, and actively dismantle the systems and biases that prevent gender equality.
News & Views Fathers are experiencing workplace discrimination for taking on caregiver responsibilities A new report reveals that working fathers trying to shoulder more care of their children feel discriminated against in the workplace.
Leadership Senator Malarndirri McCarthy becomes first Indigenous Australian woman to deliver National Statement to UN Commission Today in New York, Senator McCarthy became the first Indigenous Australian woman to deliver the National Statement to the UN Commission.
News & Views Making IWD actionable: Labor to report annually on Australia’s gender equality progress Marking IWD, Labor released Australia’s first Status of Women Report Card to highlight where progress on gender equality has stalled.
Soapbox The commercialisation of International Women’s Day is symbolic of continuing inequality The commercialisation of IWD is symbolic of the continuing inequality that girls and women, in all their diversities, experience worldwide.
News & Views The Government Activity Test keeping women out of the workforce: new report New report finds women across Australia are restricted from participating in the workforce due to the Government’s Activity Test.
News & Views In Singapore, a man sues a woman for not reciprocating his romantic intentions In Singapore one man is suing a woman in damages for “sustained trauma” after his romantic intentions were not reciprocated.
News & Views Why I’m giving our female staff a (paid) day off for International Women’s Day Each year for International Women’s Day, we have even more work added to our plates. We write editorials, we organise and attend events, we fight off internet trolls…I’ve decided that this year the men in our office will be writing our IWD editorial.
News & Views Camp Cope leaves the Australian music industry forever changed by their fearless feminist activism Australian indie-rock outfit Camp Cope have been leaders at a critical juncture for gender equality in music, writes Freya Langley.
News & Views Australia’s new pay equality law risks failing women- unless we make this simple fix Reporting median statistics would help mitigate the skewing problem with averages. This is needed to help close the gender pay gap.
News & Views ‘Women have waited long enough’: Labor delivers legislation to help close the gender pay gap The Albanese Labor Government’s new bill will publish gender pay gaps of employers with 100 or more workers to help close the gap.
News & Views ‘Tired of seeing same faces’: The women who feel left out of International Women’s Day events and the Coalition of 25 advocates wanting to transform representation International Women’s Day is coming up, but many women from diverse backgrounds don’t expect their voices to be included in celebrations.