gender equality

To close the global gender gap, a new report shows progress must happen with stronger laws, stronger institutions and stronger outcomes. 

UN Women’s Executive Director, Sima Bahous, called this a “historic and precarious moment”. She’s right. We are standing at a crossroads.

The suggestion by Angus Taylor that gender quotas “subvert democracy” reflects a narrow understanding of what true democratic representation means.

Australia’s progress on gender equality sits uneasily alongside a national crisis: gender-based violence is not falling — it is escalating.

HESTA announced a goal to ensure all its external asset managers will include at least one female on their investment teams.

The 123 year wait for gender equality is actually an improvement on the 2024 result. And Australia has risen 11 places in the rankings.

If we don’t organise the feminist movement, we risk wasting the best opportunity we’ve had in years, writes Chloe Watts.

Female football players in Victoria are planning to wear multiple red armbands to protest the state’s cuts to gender equity programs. 

Australia’s cabinet has improved on gender equality, but parliament still lacks genuine diversity across culture, disability, and age.

Low birth rates are not the result of “radical feminism.” They are the result of a society that has not adapted to support modern families.

Australia’s most gender-diverse parliament must now turn promises into real action to improve safety for women and children.

Labor’s electoral success is a triumph of strategic gender equality advocacy and transformation that has changed the entire parliament.