gender equality

The Women’s Economic Equality Taskforce has provided its latest advice to the government on women’s economic equality in Australia.

For the first time, New Zealand has reached an equal number of men and women in its cabinet, with Willow-Jean Prime’s promotion.

It is men who must move from passive ally to active advocate, and actively dismantle the systems and biases that prevent gender equality.

A new report reveals that working fathers trying to shoulder more care of their children feel discriminated against in the workplace. 

Today in New York, Senator McCarthy became the first Indigenous Australian woman to deliver the National Statement to the UN Commission.

Marking IWD, Labor released Australia’s first Status of Women Report Card to highlight where progress on gender equality has stalled. 

The commercialisation of IWD is symbolic of the continuing inequality that girls and women, in all their diversities, experience worldwide.

New report finds women across Australia are restricted from participating in the workforce due to the Government’s Activity Test.

In Singapore one man is suing a woman in damages for “sustained trauma” after his romantic intentions were not reciprocated.   

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.

Australian indie-rock outfit Camp Cope have been leaders at a critical juncture for gender equality in music, writes Freya Langley.

Reporting median statistics would help mitigate the skewing problem with averages. This is needed to help close the gender pay gap.