News & Views Budget 2020: It’s time to play “blokecovery” bingo Will the budget consist of stimulus measures from which men, and male dominated industries, stand to disproportionately benefit?
News & Views Mumbai becomes latest city to help fight exclusion by changing their traffic figures India’s largest city will now feature pedestrian traffic lights in the shape of a female figure in an attempt to challenge gender erasure.
News & Views We need a new childcare system that encourages women to work, not punishes them for it The end of free childcare is a double hit to working women. It hits an industry mostly staffed by women & will make it more difficult for women to work.
News & Views More money & jobs for the boys! The PM ear-marks $270 billion for defence The PM will announce on Wednesday that $270 billion will be spent on new and upgraded defence capabilities over the next decade.
News & Views Let’s not pretend a powerful man preying on young women in law is an aberration The perpetual unmitigated acclaim that powerful men give each other ensures the systemic harassment and assault of young women in the profession continues.
News & Views The first – and only – female Chief Justice of the High Court permitted the independent inquiry into former judge Susan Kiefel is the first female to serve as the Chief Justice of the High Court. Would an inquiry into Dyson Heydon have occurred without her?
News & Views How COVID-19 risks reversing the gender equity gains made by Women in STEM The COVID-19 pandemic has compounded pre-existing gender inequity for women in STEM and caused significant career disruption to female researchers.
News & Views Four ways we can help prevent gender-based violence What everyday actions can help prevent domestic and family violence? Claire Tatyzo from YWCA Australia explores four key areas.
News & Views A “Female Relationship Resume” doesn’t prove you support women Monica Hesse calls the list of women in a man’s life that he uses to ‘prove’ he supports women the “Female Relationship Resume”.
News & Views The last thing women need is a corporate version of Mother’s Day The top-ranking site on Google if you search ‘International Women’s Day’ is a corporate entity. Proof IWD has become a corporate mother’s day?
News & Views Should we rename International Women’s Day to International Do-More-Work-For-Free Day? The irony of International Women’s Day becoming a peak opportunity to extract yet more free labour from women breathtaking.
News & Views Scott Morrison says we must do “all that we can” so he needs to fund services for women. Now. Every person fleeing violence from a current or former partner needs to be able to access the services they need, when they need it, where they need it.