I woke this morning thinking about speed-dating. If only we’d thought to deploy it yesterday at our Seize the CSW Moment conference!What an amazing group of people gathered – at short notice – to...
By Pia Rowe
Seize the CSW moment
Gender Equality: are we going backwards?About this EventThe 50/50 by 2030 Foundation at the University of Canberra will Seize the Moment of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) in the...
Traditional gender roles plague PPL
This is not 1950s Australia. But looking at the design of our government-funded paid parental leave (PPL) scheme, there are strong undercurrents that suggest your may be forgiven for thinking it is....
IWD 2020: Natasha Stott-Despoja AO In Conversation with Virginia Haussegger AM
Covering issues ranging from politics, populism and the prevention of violence against women, this promises to be an evening of robust discussion, along with some heartfelt truths as we ask - what...
Emancipation of Men: Masculinity at the Crossroads
Rolling Stone recently declared the 2010s as the “decade of bad men” – ten years in which toxic masculinity became part of the zeitgeist - while The Australian claimed that men have been...
2020 – The year of numbers
So that’s 2019 done – and what a mixed bag this year has been. Once again, we couldn’t have done it without the generosity and support from all our contributors, readers, and colleagues.Looking...
It’s in! Australia dives yet again in the WEF Global Gender Gap Report
Here we go again. The gap. THE gap. Every year, we wait with bated breath for the World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap Index. For the past decade, it hasn’t been good news for Australia. This...
Finland 5 – The Millennials smash it!
When I arrived in Finland just over three weeks ago for a brief family visit, the country was in the middle of a large-scale postal strike, and the ‘sympathy strikes’ were starting to spill over to...
