‘Crisis of masculinity’ is driving levels of intimate partner and sexual violence in the Western world. Widely held beliefs in sexual differences, which promote the ‘boys will be boys’ position,...
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Violence against women: A crisis of masculinity? Pt 1
A ‘crisis’ of masculinityIn the wake of the #MeToo movement, the recent public focus around the Western world on predatory, controlling, violent and sometimes lethal behaviour of men to women has...
Undermining women’s rights: Australia’s global fossil fuel footprint
Australia’s overseas aid program has long been focused on women’s empowerment and gender equality and, while our aid may be dwindling to historically low levels, 80% of what remains must be spent on...
Rowing in the same direction: Getting men on board with gender equality
This summer, Mexico's leftist President-elect Andrés Manuel López Obrador and Colombia's new rightist President Iván Duque each announced that his cabinet will be gender balanced. This came a month...
Choice and financial independence: A double-edged sword?
It was welcome to read in the Weekend Australian recently Nikki Gemmell promote the virtue of financial independence and the hazards of shared finances. For too long we have espoused the value of...
Gender inequality in politics: Why quotas won’t cut it
It is time to get serious about addressing gender inequality in political representation in Australia. The way forward is to reconfigure our electoral system from the ground up.When women won the...
Bullying in Parliament: When ‘Enough is enough!’
Former Foreign Minister Julie Bishop was emphatic in her statement last week about the Australian parliament’s workplace culture: “Enough is enough”. Her comments, in the aftermath of last month’s...
Parliamentary gender bullying: Why is Australia shy of solutions?
In March 2018, the Inter-Parliamentary Union’s annual reflection of progress and setbacks of women elected to the world’s national parliaments redirected the #MeToo spotlight – with its focus on the...
A fool to believe? Gender equality advocacy in times of trouble
“The future is not shaped by people who don’t really believe in the future. [It is shaped] by men and women who want something very much or believe very much" - John W. Gardner Gender equality in...