It doesn’t matter that you can’t pick up the phone and call an internationally renowned trailblazer if their advice is waiting for you in easily available videos, podcasts, blogs and books. So there’s…
‘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 …
Doubt the sisterhood? Read Women Kind & stand corrected
Kirstin Ferguson spent the first 20 years of her career in male-dominated fields – in the air force, law and business – desperately hoping no one would notice that she was a woman. On that basis had a…
Let’s banish the myth that there aren’t many female role models in STEM
In my first year of engineering work experience, I noticed no women older than 30 in my workplace. I wondered if they left to have kids and didn’t come back. Being 18, motherhood wasn’t the first thin…
Cricket, a cheating scandal & woeful role models: Why women in sport deserve the airtime
A confession. Until Sunday morning I had only been peripherally, at best, aware of the cricket test matches that have been taking place in South Africa in recent weeks. The Australian team’s unf…
A night with the Women’s Agenda Leadership Award finalists
On Thursday afternoon a line up of judges including chair Dr Kirstin Ferguson, Marina Go, Sally Loane, Nicola Hazell, Suzy Nicoletti, Paul Zahra, Conrad Liveris and Pip Marlow convened with 34 finalis…
The trouble with our obsession with Schapelle Corby’s return home.
It is a strange world we live in. How else to explain that – by far – the biggest news story of the weekend was the arrival home to Australia of Schapelle Corby? For 36 hours there has bar…
#EveryWoman: Another awesome hashtag for the sisterhood
The internet is not always a particularly warm, welcoming space for women. You barely have to glance online to see a woman – if not womankind – being denigrated. Australian research last y…
The dreadful reason women’s cricket made it to the front page
It’s not every day that women’s sports makes the front page of any newspaper, let alone a national broadsheet like The Australian. It has today but hold off on celebrating. Meg Lanning, the captain of…
The seriously good news story we need: Women’s AFL makes history
If you flipped through the papers last weekend, you probably noticed it. Women’s sport, and the AFL Women’s League in particular, was everywhere. Not confined to a few paragraphs inside th…
