Raise a hand – or better yet, a leg – if you own a pair of yoga pants. Marketed largely to women in Western countries, these items began to appear after yoga became a globalized mainstream practice...
Want to do a PhD about cyberhate against female athletes?
Remember when AFLW Carlton forward Tayla Harris got predator trolled simply for doing her job? In case your memory needs jogging, back in 2019 a photograph taken by AFL Media senior photographer...
Leaning Out: tackling women’s Great Exhaustion
In the new book 'Leaning Out', respected journalist Kristine Ziwica maps a decade of stasis on the gender equality front in Australia, and why the pandemic has led to a breakthrough. This...
Forging tools to challenge gendered financial inequality
There’s a Jobs and Skills Summit in the offing – the new government canvassing issues and strategies with key stakeholders, and there is pre-caucusing going on to bring specific perspectives to the...
Research wrap: Burnout and why it hits women harder
Folks, we need to talk about burnout. Lately, it’s been a constant feature in my newsfeed. See here and here and here. Once upon a time most often an individual condition, it seems as though there...
Exclusive: “Man Who Has It All” bares all
Wooohoooo! BroadAgenda has obtained an exclusive interview with social media smash hit, The Man Who Has It All (MWHIA). We’ve teamed up with social media expert Dr Catherine Archer – who has deep...
Stepford Wives anniversary: Suburban living turned women into robots
On August 26 1970, 50,000 women marched down Fifth Avenue in New York City in a Women’s Strike. Organised by feminist activist Betty Friedan, the march highlighted the fact women still performed the...
Confronting domestic abuse in the South Asian community
Manjula Datta O’Connor's book, Daughters of Durga, is an incisive investigation of domestic violence in South Asian communities, and the resilience of women in the face of adversity. Here she talks...
Why women are breaking up with the news
Despite huge and seemingly compelling news events – the Black Summer bushfires, the global pandemic and a hard-fought election campaign interest in news continues to fall. The proportion of those...