News & Views ‘Did you forget your pants?’ Kerri-Anne Kennerley asks colleague on live TV Kerri-Anne Kennerley asked 10 daily Senior Reporter Antoinette Latouff if she’d forgotten her pants live on air on Studio 10 on Friday.
News & Views 90% of young women think female politicians are treated unfairly, Plan International survey finds Plan International’s research finds girls become increasingly cynical of sexism in politics as they grow older.
News & Views A rare Bluey blunder: Chilli isn’t ‘falling short’ because she returned to work Blatant mother-shaming might be expected from Leunig but from the creators of Bluey? Hell to the no. To their credit they changed it quickly.
News & Views I’m not his plus one, I’m his co-founder When I attended a large tech conference, I was treated as my male co-founders ‘plus one’, not as his business partner, writes Kathyrn Van Kuyk.
News & Views The ridiculous question women in medicine don’t want to be asked The Medical Journal of Australia called for manuscript submissions on the topic of ‘Women in medicine is there gender equity?’ The answer is no.
News & Views Sexualised & stereotyped: why Australian advertising is stuck in a sexist past New research suggests the advertising industry’s standards for judging sexism are like the world depicted in the television series Mad Men.
News & Views For Indigenous women, the #MeToo movement is a deeper fight against racism, power & oppression The representations we see of Indigenous women in Australia need to reflect success and excellence not only disadvantage.
News & Views “Come on girls! What’s going on?” A man asks why more women aren’t giving their time to charity “Come on girls! What’s going on?” An Australian man took to LinkedIn to ask why more women aren’t giving their time to charity like men.
News & Views The politics of women’s clothing From victim-blaming to criticism, slut-shaming, harassment and even punishment, the subject of women’s clothing remains political and fraught.
Life How the top grossing films are warping our views of women Plan International released research today that reveals top grossing films continue to portray women in often sexualised and sexist ways.
News & Views ‘Listen to her. Believe her’: Michelle Williams’ epic Emmy acceptance speech Michelle Williams won a 2019 Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress for her role in Fosse/Verdon. She delivered a passionate plea for equality.
News & Views Pain and Prejudice: Why women’s health problems have been belittled & ignored In her book Pain and Prejudice, Gabrielle Jackson explores how women’s pain is viewed and treated, not just by the medical profession, but by wider society.