With sexual harassment scandals roiling Hollywood and Washington, we need more feminists, not fewer. With the gender pay gap about where it was two decades ago, it’s time for men to do our part for...
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Meet the Male Feminist: Academic Dr Max Halupka
Q. Can men be feminists, or is it perhaps not a term men are entitled to appropriate?A. Certainly. I see no reason why men, or non-binary individuals, can’t be feminists. With that said however, I...
Gender Budgeting: will Australia step up?
Why the need for gender budgeting? And what is it?A couple of weeks after the the Treasurer delivered the 2017 Federal Budget in May, the National Foundation of Australian Women (NFAW) released its...
Embedded Economic Gender Discrimination – Tax & Social Policy
The recently released book Tax, Social Policy and Gender, edited by Miranda Stewart (ANU e-press) confronts the entrenched gender inequities in our current tax and social security system. A...
Same Sex Marriage – A Mother’s story
The same-sex marriage debate has been, for many of us, demarcated by a series of dates: the date the survey started – the day the survey closed – the date the results of the survey were revealed –...
Gender Quotas: Following Norway’s lead?
Recently, BroadAgenda published an article from the Norwegian Ambassador to Australia, Unni Klovstad, outlining Norway's success in achieving gender equality in leadership positions. The Ambassador...
Women’s rights in the EU: a privilege for some women?
“Equality between women and men is one of the European Union's founding values” says the website of the European Commission. Since inclusion of the principle of equal pay for equal work in the...
Meet the male feminist: Journalist Mark Kenny
Q. Can men be feminists, or is it perhaps not a term men are entitled to appropriate?Yes, in principle. But I would only claim associate membership at best. A male with genuine feminist sympathies...
The Women Peace & Security movement in our Region
At times of conflict women's voices are too often lost in the fray. Yet those voices are critical to negotiating lasting peace and security. The Australian government well understands this, and has...