Global FindingsThe 2019 SDG Gender Index finds that, across the 129 countries studied, no country has fully achieved the promise of gender equality envisioned in the ambitious 2030 Agenda....
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War crimes against Women – should Australia prosecute?
The UN Security Council has now passed its ninth resolution on women, peace and security. Five of those have focused on sexual violence in armed conflict. When the Council passed UNSCR 2467 in...
Why is it taking so long to achieve gender equality in parliament?
Australia could once count itself among the vanguard of women’s rights reform, being the first country in the world to grant (some) women the dual rights of voting and standing for parliament in...
When the data fails: From political polls to poverty measurement
No matter who you voted for in the Australian federal election, chances are at some point on Saturday evening as the results started to come through you asked, what good are polls if they don’t...
Emotional labour: Valuing skills in service sector employment
The issue: The quest for gender pay equityIn the twenty-first century every OECD country continues to have a gender pay gap, despite decades of commitment to ‘equal pay’.The 1951 ILO Equal...
‘Perfect Partners’: The impact of military service on women and families
‘To be honest, it just looks too glossy and too shiny and excited. It’s not something I can actually identify with, and it just looks too surreal to me. The reality is children distressed and crying...
Feminist foreign policy in Australia: Rhetoric or reality?
Feminist foreign policies are increasing in popularity around the world with Sweden, Canada and now France all boasting feminist approaches to their development assistance and/or foreign policy...
#MillionsMissing – Gender bias adds to the burden of disease
ME/CFS affects millions of people around the world with devastating impacts. The disease is not well understood, leaving sufferers 'missing from their own lives'. As patient and advocate, Jen...
Is the UN going soft on sexual violence in armed conflict?
Last month, the UN Security Council held its annual debate on conflict-related sexual violence. Germany, current President of the Council, hosted the debate. Keen to ensure it wasn’t just another UN...