The Australian Electoral Commission is taking public submissions on the name for a new federal electorate in Victoria. Prominent women like Susan Ryan and Margaret Tucker deserve consideration.
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Political change could open up civil spaces and support the voices of young women and girls who do not want to be cut.
Increased pressure on women academics caused by the COVID-19 pandemic is magnifying the fractured landscape of gender parity in academia.
Victoria’s closure of child-care services may be necessary, but it will put pressures on parents and likely drive down women’s workforce participation.
Research shows one in five Australian women experience degrading content online. This is not ‘harmless’ or ‘normal’.
In 2016, women represented just 29% of workers with university qualifications in science, technology, engineering or maths. And that was before the pandemic disruption.
A new study has found US mums have experienced a marked drop in their works hours during the pandemic. But this is not the case for dads.
In a new book, Julia Gillard, Hillary Clinton and other high-profile female leaders speak plainly about the challenges women face at the very top of politics.
The Gender Equality Act in Victoria creates an obligation to understand how gender affects needs and experiences, and to design, assess and manage public spaces so women feel safe in those places.
We need a new childcare system that encourages women to work, not punishes them for it
In the wake of the allegations about Dyson Heydon, a key outstanding question is reforming Australia’s opaque judicial appointments system.
The culture of the legal profession has been built by men for men over centuries. It continues to rely heavily on personal networks that reinforce the status quo.
“What would Julia do?” Julia Gillard smashed a glass ceiling as Australia’s 27th prime minister. She also transformed the way we talk and think about women in politics.
A group of leading black, queer and feminist academics held a colloquium to reconsider a seminal blackness studies text – offering new ways of thinking about the decolonial project.
Female leaders have shone in the response to the coronavirus pandemic but is there more to it than simply having women in charge?
Sports have been out of action during the coronavirus lockdown, but the recovery period is a chance to redefine sporting success beyond winning and profit margins.
Green drinks and meditation won’t solve the childcare crisis for women - we need free universal childcare to stay.
Understanding the drivers of early childbearing in specific contexts is important for effective policy making.
Women have always done the lion’s share of the “invisible” caring work at home: the impact of coronavirus may force all of that to change.
Media firms, management consultancies, business schools and economists are envisaging a new version of capitalism - but they all approach it from a skewed starting point.
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Professor of Sociology and Founding Director of The Future of Work Lab, Podcast at MissPerceived, The University of Melbourne
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Professorial Fellow, Jumbunna IHL, University of Technology Sydney
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Lecturer in Australian Politics, UNSW
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Professor, Griffith Law School, Griffith University
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Associate Professor, Human Resource Management, UNSW Canberra, UNSW
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Associate Professor in Literary Studies, Monash University
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Professor of Political Communication; Director CAJ, The University of Melbourne
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Australian Government Women in STEM Ambassador, Professor of Practice, UNSW
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Professor of Gender, Work and Employment Relations, ARC Future Fellow, Business School, co-Director Women, Work and Leadership Research Group, University of Sydney
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Senior Lecturer, The University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor, Sociology, University of California, Santa Barbara
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Professor of Leadership and Organisation Studies, University of Birmingham
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Director, Institute for Women’s Studies in the Arab World, Lebanese American University
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Professor of Political Communication, Leadership and Public Opinion, Universidad de Buenos Aires