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A new hashtag started trending on Twitter this week: #crediblewomen. As Emma Dawson, director of Per Capital think tank tells it, the hashtag was in response to a phone call that journalist Georgie...

Dear friends It’s been one of those weeks when I didn’t know whether to laugh or cry. Or do both simultaneously. So I opted for the latter – more efficient, I figured. Certainly, what is no laughing...

Women marry their glass ceilings. It’s the thesis behind a new book by author Caitlin Moran and hits close to the bone. “If she wants children and a job, a woman’s life is only as good as the man or...

The Catch-22 of female ageing was captured beautifully in Julia Baird’s book Phosphorescence. “It’s as though ageing is a little … embarrassing, unkempt and sloppy,” Baird writes, noting that we...

“Women can't have it all. They can have plenty of choices, but at the end of the day, they choose something which means they can't have something else.” So said Julie Bishop back in 2013. Her words...

Violence swirls around women’s lives in myriad ways. It lurks in the way men speak to women, the way they might look at them, rattle their confidence, patronise, exclude and belittle them. Violence...