A job ad posted by a Silicon Valley CEO and mum of 10 year old twins for a Household Manager/ Cook/ Nanny went viral recently. It’s not difficult to understand why. The job brief, over 1,000 wor…
Men feel stressed if their female partners earn more than 40% of household income – new research
Joanna Syrda, University of Bath The best marriages are probably based on teamwork. But it seems individual contributions do matter – specifically, who earns how much of the household income. My resea…
Ad Standards dismiss 600+ complaints about Libra’s #BloodNormal ads
“I am absolutely appalled that Libra has chosen when I was to talk to my seven-year-old little girl about periods.” “The images portrayed in the ad are disgusting and demeaning to wo…
Ricci Bartels isn’t a “dole bludger” or a “job snob”
Ricci Bartels has paid taxes in Australia for 46 years. She worked for 20 years in the private sector and then 26 years in the public sector for a NFP community service organisation. At age 62, throug…
#ArrestUs: 60 women who had abortions urge authorities to arrest them in NSW
Sixty women who each had ‘illegal’ abortions in NSW have laid down the gauntlet and challenged authorities to ‘Arrest Us’ ahead of the state parliament debating a decriminalisa…
Dot points are costing women job opportunities
Australian women are missing out on job opportunities if an advertised position description has too many dot points in it. It’s a point that’s got me scratching my head in disbelief but according to i…
No, I can’t be your unpaid mentor.
We all agree that women should be paid fairly for their work, don’t we? We all agree that the gender pay gap is appalling and needs to be fixed. We are outraged that female dominated industries and pr…
What’s in the 2019 Budget for women? Very little
Another year, another Federal budget. And, sadly, another entirely missed opportunity to commit to anything bold or visionary for women in Australia. Nothing to move the dial on any of the structural …
How the Australian budget process is failing women
Ching! Ching! Can you hear it? The promise of cash flowing to women? It’s budget day in an election year and you can bet that women across Australia are about to be offered money. Some hastily cobbled…
What I learned from editing a book about abortion
Somewhere in those first few days after I had agreed to edit a book about abortion, I began to realise just how little I knew about it. I had no idea that it was truly illegal in parts of Australia st…
