The lack of pandemic support for public universities has been a slap in the face for higher education workers, particularly women. In the year of the ‘women’s budget,’ it’s a bad look for the...
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UC funding win builds female biomechanics expertise
Targeting the two critical points at which the numbers of women in engineering pathways and careers dip the lowest, a University of Canberra project linking girls in high school with early career...
Gender lens: BroadAgenda Research Wrap
BroadAgenda Research Wrap is your fortnightly window into academia. We scour the journals so you don’t have to. No topic too impenetrable, no research too eclectic; BroadAgenda Research Wrap brings...
“In front of our eyes, they beat my sister”
Content warning: This story contains graphic descriptions of violence against women. So many have asked me about the plight of women in Afghanistan. I am not going to cite statistics. I am not going...
Women athletes take control of their uniforms
Photo: Georgios Kefalas/EPA/AAP Women’s dress codes in sport are determined by “traditions” that are both outdated and gendered. Their outfits have long tried to reconcile notions of “femininity”...
Turia Pitt: How to rewrite your own story
Ten years ago Turia Pitt had her career mapped out. She was a mining engineer, working in the Kimberleys. One day, she planned to be CEO of a global firm. “That never happened,” Turia told an...
Ex-MP Julia Banks describes horrifying culture of misogyny
An audible murmur of discomfort ripples through the audience at the Australian National University's Kambri Cultural Centre as former Liberal MP Julia Banks describes being verbally abused and told...
Young Australian women dissatisfied with how media represents them
Ongoing public discussion about violence against women in Australia has increased attention on the way women are portrayed in the news media. The Digital News Report: Australia 2021 finds that...
The time for equality is now – let’s turn the heat up, not let things cool
For Canberra women, it’s hard to drive past Parliament House up on the hill without thinking about every time we’ve been sexually harassed or assaulted. Without feeling slightly ill with...