According to the World Economic Forum (WEF)'s Global Gender Gap Index, on the current trajectory (with all else remaining equal), it will take until I am 222 years old before we close the economic...
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The Macron movement: 50/50 in French cabinet
Gender equality advocates welcomed the election of Emmanuel Macron as President of the French Republic on May 7, 2017. During his candidacy, Macron had made a series of promises to promote gender...
Equal Pay Day? We’re not there yet!
Q: The average full-time gender pay gap currently sits at 15.3%. Is that an improvement on last year? A: It is an improvement on last year, it’s down a full percentage point from 16.2%. But what we...
Female drivers of change for the Asian century
Q: When we talk about an organisation’s Asia capabilities, what exactly are we talking about?A: We looked at a series of six competencies for benchmarks, which formed the basis of the study that the...
Investing in women: Mentoring Myanmar MPs
During Myanmar’s historic 2015 election, I was visiting the country as an International Election Observer. On the morning of Friday 6 November, I picked up a copy of the Irrawaddy Times from a...
Canberra Writers Festival: Power, politics, passion, women!
The first event of the day was a panel on Women in the Media held at the National Press Club. Katharine Murphy, Politics editor of the Guardian Australia chaired the discussion, which...
Women, Peace & Security in an age of populism
Women’s rights do not tend to fare well during periods of political uncertainty. A shift to the right of the political spectrum, and the increasing normalisation and acceptance of small-c...
Gender justice: Women, Peace & Security
Despite an emerging international movement for feminist foreign policies, it’s not often we publicly discuss feminist views of national security. Over the past five years, the Australian Government...