Equitable treatment and opportunities might be more relevant to developing agricultural societies than equality, if that means ‘sameness’. Gendered roles in agriculture are strongly drawn and men...
When Meritocracy fails females: a culture shift to 50/50
“A hundred years ago, many ‘scientific’ reasons were advanced for why women couldn’t be doctors. Today there remained unconscious or unintentional, widely diffused differences in the ways boys or...
Advisory Council
Dame Quentin Bryce AD CVO
As Australia's first and only female Governor General, the Hon Dame Quentin Bryce AD CVO is the nation's most accomplished and awarded woman in public service. As such, Dame Quentin has lived a life...
Online identity: funny, female, or faking it?
When you traverse that vast, seemingly endless, digital landscape, you carry with you an identity, reflecting your beliefs, your motives, ideologies, likes, dislikes, friends, family and history....
Smart Phone, Smart Women
“I run a tea, coffee and snacks takeaway… earlier when the phone would ring I would rush to take the order of home delivery and fell at times … hurt myself (laughs) … now with a smart phone … SMS...
Fortune 500 Feminism
The search for female role models usually brings our attention to women on top. The first female nominee for the US President Hillary Clinton, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, International Monetary...
The Drug War, Women & Leadership in the Philippines
President Duterte is a self-declared womaniser, who can also lay claim to bouts of feminist policy. But, on the face of it, such apparent contradiction is not isolated when it comes to women,...