Distinguished Professor Susan Scott, a theoretical physicist from The Australian National University (ANU) whose pioneering work has fundamentally altered our understanding of the deepest and...
Category: Gender
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...
Learning Covid lessons: A gender-just future is possible
Right now, it feels as if the world is lurching from crisis to crisis. We’ve navigated more than two years of a global pandemic that has left none of us unscathed, only to be confronted by the...
The Beyoncé of Finance: Representation and Hope
Falling in love with academia When Bomikazi Zeka attended a graduation ceremony as a guest during her Honours year, she decided that one day, no matter what, she would do a PhD. “There was...
The double-edged sword of gender in politics
Gender is a double-edged sword. It can aid the rise to political power for women but can also limit their political ambitions, including what they can achieve for fellow women. The presence of women...
Sexist stock photography, lesbian sisters, and androgyny
Recently, I stumbled across a “lesbian” stock image where the two women looked almost identical. Were they supposed to have shared a womb or were they dating? This sent me down a stock photography...
Stealthing: Most people don’t know it’s rape
When it happens to you, it can be devastating. Violating. Traumatising. But did you know it’s also rape? I’m talking about stealthing – the non-consensual removal of a condom during sex. Elena, who...
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...