In an electric event held at the ANU last month, some of Australia's best female film makers and experts shone a light on a tough, sexist industry. The battle continues for female film practitioners...
Category: Equality
The Mothers’ Milk Tool: Putting a price on breastmilk
Breastfeeding and mothers’ milk is presently not counted in food systems or the economy and should be, argues Dr Julie Smith. She explains the new 'Mothers’ Milk Tool' quantifies the volume of...
Opaque Budget Papers, but here’s the gender scrutiny
The National Foundation for Australian Women is an independent feminist organisation that carries a voice outside of party politics. As we near the Federal election, BroadAgenda's editor Ginger...
Why some women oppose gender equality
Anti-feminists, ‘tradwives’, and men’s rights advocates - why some women oppose gender equality (and what to do about it). When we talk about women’s activism, the first thing that comes to mind is...
Research wrap: time poverty, parenting and mental health
BroadAgenda Research Wrap is your monthly window into academia. We scour the journals so you don’t have to. This month’s research wrap comes to you from the covid recovery bed. While the ‘mild to...
Ms. Representation: Gender composition of the Australian parliament
In this analysis, Anna Hough of the Australian Parliamentary Library analyses both how female representation has changed in the last 20 years, and how Australia ranks globally on achieving a...
The biggest gender equality event you’ve never heard of
Imagine an annual event which is exclusively focused on achieving gender equality, which attracts something in the order of 8,000 – 9,000 delegates from across the globe, and which produces a road...
Banding together to combat gender bias on Wikipedia
When you stop to think about it, it is mind-boggling that of the millions of biographies on Wikipedia, only 19% of them are about women. This statistic is even less for those working in the...
A (feminist) love story saved by radical empathy
It’s something each of us might sometimes wonder. How do you change someone’s mind? This unexpected love story is the ultimate lesson. It could easily have been one of those Tinder-dates-from-hell...