In many gender equality debates, there is an ongoing polarisation of the 'good mother' versus the 'good worker'. On the conservative side of the debate, mothers who engage in paid work are viewed as...
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Is higher education a ‘family-friendly’ career choice?
There is a pervasive belief, at least in the Western world, that education is a good career choice for ‘women who want a family’. In fact, it is not uncommon for individuals to enter a career in...
From gender parity to gender equity: The latest challenge?
Australia’s public sectors are implementing gender equity strategies, managers are committed to implementing these strategies, and many employees are supportive of them. Yet, we still hear that...
Gender and mental health: The need for a wider lens
“Did you know human men and human women have more in common… than they don’t? Did you know that? I don’t think many people do know that because we always focus on the difference.” Hannah Gadsby,...
Patriarchy is bigger than Donald Trump: Plenary by Cynthia Enloe
The excerpts below have been selected by the BroadAgenda team, and published here with Professor Enloe's permission. They have been transcribed verbatim, and have not been edited. To view the full...
Has democracy failed women?
A democratic regime is not democracy, yet too often we assume that it is. We then use the existence of inequality in a particular regime to measure the success, not of that regime, but of democracy...
Breaking the barriers: Women in diplomatic leadership
Australian international relations is at a critical juncture, as women verge on parity in diplomatic leadership for the first time in history. In just one year, women diplomats have jumped from 27...
Sexism and politics in Italy: Will anything change?
Italy has a brand new populist government; a self-proclaimed ‘government of change’. While the new government has built its public image in the spirit of great discontinuity with the past, it does...
Has democratic theory failed women?
“That the principle which regulates the existing social relations between the two sexes – the legal subordination of one sex to the other – is wrong itself, and now one of the chief hindrances to...