A woman’s ‘right to choose’ has long been a key trope of the women’s movement. Despite the prevailing rhetoric of gender equality, male politicians, judges, lawyers and doctors continually seek to...
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Meet the male feminist: Finnish MP Ville Niinistö
Can men be feminists, or is it perhaps not a term men are entitled to appropriate?Yes, of course they can. However, we also need to recognise the fact that due to the way our society has been...
Getting out of our silos: Leveraging the Women, Peace & Security agenda to transform humanitarian action
The fact that women and girls experience conflict differently from boys and men is made clear in the Women, Peace and Security (WPS) agenda – but what about during a humanitarian response? How does...
Women in Politics: Who set the House rules?
It’s a strange feature of politics that representative institutions – the pinnacle of our democracies – seem to lack the capacity to think through workplace, employment, cultural sensitivity and...
SDG 5: What does Sustainable Development Goal 5 mean for Australia?
We have a target. Actually, we have many. At a meeting of the UN two years ago, Australia was one of 193 countries to agree to 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as the backbone of a global...
The value of women’s work: Reflections on Norway’s gender quotas
Women’s participation in the workforce has contributed substantially to the Norwegian economy - so much so that some reports equate the value of female work participation with the value of our oil...
Gender equality in political representation: A deliberative case
Deliberative democracy is concerned, among other things, with improving the role of reason in the conduct of politics. And we, as researchers in this field, dedicate a good deal of effort to finding...
What in the world? Australia’s dramatic drop in women’s health
Every year, for the last dozen years, the Geneva-based World Economic Forum has published a Global Gender Gap Report. It is an ambitious document that aims to measure the level of gender inequality...
Don’t mind his misogyny: Has political language been Trumped?
"A sexual revolution begins with the emancipation of women, who are the chief victims of patriarchy, and also with the ending of homosexual oppression." - Kate Millett, 1970 "My goal is that by...