May 2019
2019 May: Week 5
- South Africa gets gender-balanced cabinet, 31 May, BBC News
- Labor's first casualties in defeat are its women, 30 May, Brisbane Times
- Women sue F.B.I., claiming discrimination at training academy, 30 May, The New York Times
- List of world gender equality leaders ranges from top judge to former prisoners, 29 May, Thomas Reuters Foundation
- Female military peacekeepers left feeling overwhelmed after inadequate training, 29 May, The Conversation
- Australian dads’ working lives (still) don’t change when a baby arrives, 29 May, Women's Agenda
- Gender inequality harms not only women and girls, but also men and boys, 28 May, Forbes
- 'Enough is enough': Courtney Herron is the 20th woman to be killed in Australia this year, 28 May, SBS News
- Let’s make it mandatory to teach respectful relationships in every Australian school, 28 May, The Conversation
- An open letter to Marise Payne, our new Minister for Women, 27 May, Women's Agenda
- Equality? Cannes still doesn't get it, 25 May, The Sydney Morning Herald
- Independent report: Our Watch driving real change on violence against women, 24 May, Our Watch: News
2019 May: Week 4
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Gender diversity in the new Parliament ... status quo-low, 23 May, The Sydney Morning Herald
- How do young Australians see violence against women?, 22 May, The University of Melbourne: The Pursuit
- With potential to boost profits by up to 20 per cent, a woman’s place is at work, says UN labour agency, 22 May, United Nations: News
- Siri and Alexa fuel sexism, U.N. Finds, 22 May, The New York Times
- ‘Battle of the Thermostat’: Cold rooms may hurt women’s productivity, 22 May, The New York Times
- Queensland paper backtracks after using violent imagery to depict Annastacia Palaszczuk, 21 May, The Conversation
- Women in politics need visibility and voice not just votes, 21 May, Women's Agenda
- Jane Caro: If I was Tanya Plibersek, 21 May, The Big Smoke
- Tanya Plibersek won't contest the Labor leadership, so what went wrong?, 21 May, ABC News
- Trans women are victims of misogyny, too – and all feminists must recognize this, 19 May, The Guardian
- It shouldn’t be left to women to fight alone for abortion rights, 18 May, The Guardian
- Bob Hawke's legacy for women in Australia, 17 May, Anne Summers
Audio Bonus: Why don't we have more women in politics?, 23 May, ABC: Mornings
2019 May: Week 3
- 'Women of Australia, be grateful for what Bob Hawke did': Susan Ryan, Labor's first female minister, 16 May, The Guardian
- 2019 election: Why politics is toxic for Australia’s women, 15 May, BBC News
- BBC claims success in efforts to improve on-air gender balance, 15 May, The Guardian
- In abortion fight, 2020 female candidates lead call to arms, 15 May, The New York Times
- Labor promises APS gender-blind recruiting, 14 May, The Mandarin
- Fashion has shockingly few female CEOs, 14 May, Quartz: Quartz at work
- What would be good for mothers is closing the pay gap faster, 12 May, The Sydney Morning Herald
- Women's jobs, not quotas, in PM's sights, 11 May, The Canberra Times
- Need female board members? Chile's Government has a list for you, 11 May, Bloomberg
- The socio-economic struggle of women isn’t a distant past. It’s now. It’s us, 10 May, The Guardian
- White, male, named Andrew? You've got a good chance to become a CEO, 10 May, The Sydney Morning Herald
- Mothers in congress, 10 May, The New York Times
- Business Trailblazers: 9 formidable women leading the way, 9 May, CEO Magazine
Paywall Bonus: More women in Canberra would be good for us all, 10 May, The Australian
2019 May: Week 2
- Gender pay gap must be closed with force, 9 May, The Australian
- Hordes of women, like Bill Shorten's mum, had to delay a dream, 8 May, The Guardian
- Grammy Awards name first female President, 8 May, The New York Times
- Most poor people in the world are women. Australia is no exception, 7 May, The Guardian
- What are my sons to make of the awful sexism aired in this campaign?, 7 May, The Sydney Morning Herald
- Resurgent 'family values' cause nations to break women's rights vows: U.N. official, 7 May, Reuters
- Are women really better than men at handling the work life juggle?, 7 May, Women's Agenda
- Another barrier for women in politics: Violence, 6 May, The Conversation
- Why Labor’s childcare policy is the biggest economic news of the election campaign, 6 May, The Conversation
- Statement by UN Women on discrimination against female athletes, 5 May, UN Women
- Nats could look at gender equality target, 4 May, SBS News
- Thirty-five voices, one movement: a new book examines #MeToo in Australia, 29 Apr, The Conversation
Paywall Bonus: ACSI pushes for gender equality on boards, 5 May, Australian Financial Review
2019 May: Week 1
- Note to the Liberal Party’s Sachin Joshi: Here’s why medicine’s gender pay gap ACTUALLY exists, 2 May, Women's Agenda
- Federal election: Australian women want action on these three issues – but men not quite so sure, 1 May, ABC News
- Tarana Burke and Tracey Spicer win Sydney Peace prize for #MeToo work, 1 May, The Guardian
- 'No sex without fighting' - tackling toxic masculinity in DR Congo, 1 May, BBC News
- More women are running for office, but will that mean more equality?, 30 Apr, The Sydney Morning Herald
- Majority of voters want action on women's issues, new polling shows, 30 Apr, Brisbane Times
- What sex industry workers think of One Nation's Steve Dickson 'strip club scandal', 30 Apr, ABC News
- As a new Emperor is enthroned in Japan, his wife won’t be allowed to watch, 29 Apr, The New York Times
- Afghan women demand seat at peace talks but face resistance, 29 Apr, Associated Press News
- As PM retreats to manshed, bring on an arms race for the women's vote, 28 Apr, The Sydney Morning Herald
- Women did everything right. Then work got ‘Greedy.’, 26 Apr, The New York Times
- US Stance at UN a backward step on women’s rights, 25 Apr, Human Right's Watch
- Saudi sisters urge Google and Apple to pull an 'inhuman' woman-tracking app, 25 Apr, TIME
- ANZAC Day: remembering when women held down the fort, 24 Apr, Workplace Gender Equality Agency
Audio Bonus: Stott Despoja launches book on national emergency 'On Violence', 29 Apr, ABC News: Drive
Paywall Bonus: If you want female MPs, you have to vote for women, 26 Apr, Australian Financial Review
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