Among the blizzard of scholarships and programs announced in Kelly O’Dwyer’s Women’s Economic Security Statement last week was a dry little section announcing the reinstatement of the Time Use...
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Men are hurting, but feminism isn’t to blame
Men in our society seem to be struggling. We have higher suicide rates, are more likely to be victims of interpersonal violence, worse health outcomes, suffer from loneliness, die earlier and are...
Do women need a Universal Social Dividend?
Women's long-term pay inequity is created by the undervaluing of their paid employment and the non valuing of unpaid social wellbeing contributions which continue to be significant issues in the...
Increasing women’s workforce participation: Will the Women’s Economic Security Statement deliver?
The Women’s Economic Security Statement sets out its funding initiatives under three pillars: workforce participation, economic independence and earning potential. While these descriptors accurately...
From eros to logos, Sex Party to Reason
With historian Geoffrey Blainey, Australians once feared 'The Tyranny of Distance' from our colonial power - and even today any idea of an Australian Republic remains highly contested.Then the...
‘Giving in’: Germaine Greer on non-consensual sex
“Having a conversation is better than not having one at all, however you say that, and I quote, ‘Most rapes don’t involve any injury at all.’ Are you saying that being violated physically doesn’t...
Backlash against gender equality is arising in new forms
Backlash is a negative, hostile or aggressive reaction to a political idea. The term has been applied to civil and race rights. Recently however, it has been prominent in politics, business and the...
Gender innovation: The global movement for gender budgeting
The issue: Budgets and their blind spotsBudgets are the central political document that activates government policy by raising revenues and allocating expenditures legislated by the Parliament. The...
From global to regional: Meeting the SDGs in the Pacific region
Recently, the 2018 Pacific SDG Progress Wheels were launched. They reveal the Pacific progress on the Sustainable Development Goals (SGDs). As the United Nations explains, the goals are...