A narrative centred on gendered emotion often emerges in discussion around news avoidance, with women more likely to cite emotional reasons for avoiding the news – as was the case in our 2017 survey...
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Women, News and barren fruit bowls!
A couple of years ago the editor of the Fairfax Media website Essential Baby – which, as its name suggests, covers all things baby and motherhood – showed me a chart that graphed the time of day its...
Valuing women’s work
It is important to be clear at beginning that the Senate report on workforce gender segregation was prepared by a Labor-dominated committee. Coalition senators objected to it, basically...
Talking tough on gender pay parity
Given the enduring gender pay inequality evident in Australia, we need more people to keep banging on about it; as only through pressure by public figures and key institutions are we likely to...
Gender segregation in the workplace
Australian men and women lead very different working lives. Men and women often do not work 'side by side'—but instead work in industries or occupations which are dominated by one gender or another....
Engaging Men: Q&A with Michael Flood
Q: The report released this week ‘Engaging Men’ is not your first foray into this field. You have in fact spent many years investigating the role and engagement of men in gender equality. What...
Engaging Men on Gender Equality
There is no magic bullet to solving gender inequality at work. But what role should men play? Are they innocent beneficiaries of unjust systems that just happen to be designed around masculine...
Australian Honours: Where are the Women?
Take a good look at this table of 15 outstanding Australians who have just received the top gong in the Queen's Birthday 2017 Honours list, announced on Monday. Each has been made a Companion of the...
Mothers who sexually abuse their sons
Some subjects are almost too painful to contemplate. And too difficult to share. This following story is one of them. But here at BroadAgenda we value the integrity of intent and research that has...