In her recent best seller, The Invisible Woman, Caroline Craido Perez claims that ‘most of recorded history is one big gender gap’. When it comes to the lives of the ‘other half’ of humanity she...
Category: Research
The Trap: love, abuse and power
Today the Victorian Women’s Trust launches its new podcast series, The Trap, written and hosted by leading Australian investigative journalist and award-winning author, Jess Hill, pictured, and...
Gender lens: BroadAgenda Research Wrap
BroadAgenda Research Wrap is your monthly 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 you...
‘Equals Now’ symposium: Exploring leadership and gender inequality
On Wednesday and Thursday of last week, 16 – 17 June 2021, the 50/50 by 2030 Foundation hosted its inaugural symposium, ‘Equals Now’ at the University of Canberra. In today’s post, Laura Davy...
Show me the numbers! Disaggregated gender data
We cannot solve problems we do not understand, argues Ramona Vijeyarasa. In the final article of this 3-part series, exclusive to BroadAgenda, Dr Vijeyarasa, the lead scholar behind the Gender...
Gender responsive legislation: Equal Opportunity Act
Can good law reduce the gender gap, or does it need to go hand in hand with awareness-raising around the law's core intent and purpose? In Part 2 of this...
The silver bullet! Gender-responsive legislation
The goal of gender equality is far from reached in Australia, so what next? In this timely and excellent 3-part series exclusive to BroadAgenda Ramona Vijeyarasa, the lead scholar behind the Gender...
Where are women’s voices on the Middle East in Australia?
Why do men still do so much of the talking, for women? Although the terminology is relatively recent, ‘mansplaining’ was first identified way back in Homer’s Odyssey, some 3000 years ago, as that...