News & Views Stigma, stereotypes: Dads returning to career with a ‘patchy CV’ Jo Stone didn’t expect a story about her husband’s job search after taking a break to care for kids to reach more than 1.3 million people.
News & Views Challenge The Label: Speaker agency launches to platform stories of women fighting the status quo A new agency has launched this week, dedicated to diversifying the voices and talent platformed on speaking circuits.
Screen ‘We are vibrant’: New short film amplifies the voices of women living with HIV ‘Thriving’ is a timely performance poem film as women and girls in Australia living with HIV make up 12 per cent of the population.
Books Penny Moodie unpacks OCD in new book, The Joy Thief Check out this extract from Penny Moodie’s new book, The Joy Thief. Let’s unpack OCD. What is it? What are the stigmas and common misunderstandings.
Health 4 out of 10 Australians keep silent at work about their mental health A new study has found that four out of every ten workers who reported poor mental health in the past 12 months did not talk about it at work.
Politics More sinister than ‘clumsy’: Victorian MP Wendy Lovell comes under fire for comments about social housing It’s hard to contemplate what was going through Victorian Liberal MP Wendy Lovell’s brain when she uttered the words she did.
News & Views Why it’s OK to talk about not being OK When we accept the reality of being human and recognize the ignorance associated with mental illness stigma, we free ourselves to be OK with not being OK.
News & Views New study uncovers reality of period poverty in Australian schools “Period poverty is a real issue that is under-researched,” Dr Ruth Knight from QUT Business says of a new study of the issue in schools.
News & Views Socks don’t fix the systemic stressors for burnt-out doctors Until we make structural changes we will continue to see unacceptably high rates of anxiety, depression and burnout in doctors.
Partner Content It’s time to talk about heavy periods and what we can do about them Many women have long avoided discussing their heavy periods, but it’s time we stopped the stigma.
News & Views Is silence around suicide a mistake? Jennie Hill’s beloved brother committed suicide and it’s given her cause to contemplate whether silence is actually a mistake that compounds the stigma.
Soapbox The term ‘part time work’ is a relic that’s hurting working parents Part-time work has accumulated such baggage and become so gendered that it hurts a lot more working parents’ careers than it helps.
