Over summer, BroadAgenda is republishing some of its most popular articles. This compelling piece was first posted earlier this year. There is a passage in Carmen Maria Machado In The Dream House...
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What gender pay gap? Big little lies?
Over summer, BroadAgenda is republishing some of its most popular articles. This compelling piece was first posted in 2019. Australia’s gender pay gap currently sits at 14%. Australian full-time...
Rage and the rise of a new women’s movement
Over summer, BroadAgenda is republishing some of its most popular articles. This compelling piece was first posted in March. There is extraordinary power in the emotions surfacing in women around...
Can perpetrators of domestic violence be sued?
Over summer, BroadAgenda is republishing some of its most popular articles. This compelling piece was first posted in 2020. The costs of being a victim of domestic violence are huge. Prolonged abuse...
Groundbreaking move to end period poverty
A few days ago people in Canberra awoke to the news that the ACT could be the first jurisdiction in Australia to provide free sanitary products in places like health facilities, public toilets,...
Blood on their hands: why menstruation can kill
Over summer, BroadAgenda is republishing some of its most popular articles. This one was first posted in 2020. When Libra’s #BloodNormal commercial aired on prime-time TV last year showing a woman...
Since I was three years old, I’ve known my mother as “Mara Beet” or “Uma Eyal,” which means “woman of the house” or “mother of the children.” I couldn’t view my mother as anything other than a...
Research wrap: The tone deafness of popular music
So it’s nearly Christmas. Mariah Carey and Michael Bublé are now both well and truly defrosted and roasted (with or without chestnuts). The holiday nostalgia these iconic artists evoke is like a...
The Super Woman Myth: Can we have it all?
One of the challenges of being a woman in the modern world is that no matter how far we’ve come in equality, in a heterosexual relationship women still, generally, bear the burden of the ‘mental...