Family violence: As COVID-19 continues its rapid spread, so too does its insidious shadow - domestic violence. But like the deathly virus, family violence remains largely invisible. Not just to the...
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Global conservative politics & the ‘woman problem’
Women in Politics: Does the Liberal party have a 'women problem'? Certainly throughout 2018 media headlines repeatedly reminded us that was the case, as women defected, quit or called out bullying....
Gender News this week: July 10-17
Gender News: Each week we scan the world's media to find the most interesting, insightful and informed stories about women and gender equality for you. This week: Dealing with microaggressions at...
BroadAgenda Wraps the Week!
Funny isn’t it how some of those Johnny and Jill come latelys to feminism just don’t get it. A flash of purple ribbon on IWD and a ‘you go girl!’ speech at a women’s brekkie and hey presto. I’m...
Upending old orthodoxies: meet the new economists
"Public opinion is the work of men like ourselves". So said Austrian economist Friedrich Hayek, addressing the 1947 inaugural meeting of the Mont Pelerin Society, the organization he founded to...
JobTrainer and the (gendered) apprentice in the room
At this point in the pandemic, you’d be forgiven for thinking that gender equality has been mostly overlooked in responses to the COVID-19 crisis. The latest recovery measure looks like no...
BroadAgenda Wraps the Week!
Funny isn’t it how some of those Johnny and Jill come latelys to feminism just don’t get it. A flash of purple ribbon on IWD and a ‘you go girl!’ speech at a women’s brekkie and hey presto. I’m in!...
Gender News this week: July 10-17
1. The novel is dead. And this time it’s women who have murdered it. The Guardian. 10 July.No one wants to make the Great White Male Novelist extinct - they just want more diversity in...
Beyond #MeToo: Sexism, workplace harassment and law reform
You are invited to join our online BroadAgenda Public Talk Series webinar Beyond #MeToo: Sexism, workplace harassment and law reformSince the #MeToo movement first came to light in 2017, sexual...