'Ladies, We Need To Talk' (the book) breaks the stigma around everything women are thinking but not saying. Author and presenter Yumi Stynes and health reporter and digital editor Claudine Ryan...
COVID-19: Economic insecurity and domestic abuse
The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted significant concerns about the “shadow pandemic” of violence against women, and in particular intimate partner violence. A new study published by ANROWS...
Gender and office housework: Who cleans the microwave?
Over summer, BroadAgenda is republishing some of its most popular articles. This compelling piece was first posted earlier this year. Think about the microwave that sits in your office. Who cleans...
Time to stop excluding women for having difficult bodies
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...
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,...
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...
Report: The gendered distribution of household work persists
Who does most of the housework is a sore point in many households. When we conducted the second Families in Australia Survey in November-December 2021, 2,610 partnered participants had something to...
Unequal media: 69 percent of quotes from men
The “Women For Media: Take The Next Steps report” explores the role of female voices in Australian news, those quoted in news stories, and those who wrote the stories. The 2021 report combines...