Becky Batagol

Associate Professor at Monash Sustainable Development Institute and the Faculty of Law Becky.Batagol@monash.edu

Biography

Becky's work centres on tackling difficult social problems, especially family violence and gender inequality, and considering whether we can improve people’s lives through law and policy reform.

articles

A book with 'Family Law' on the cover, and a gavel on a wooden desk

Family law bill is a big step forward, but doesn’t do enough to address family violence

We should celebrate the fact this bill is passing through parliament. It shows the government has responded to insistent calls for change to protect families. However, there are two key concerns.

Politics and society

Period poverty: Seeing red in the school ground

The cultural stigma that menstruating students – and women in the workforce – face in Australia continues to cause harm.

Medicine and health

Gender equality: it's everyone's business

We need to think about the problems that men and women face not as competing priorities but as part of the same toxic social problem.

Politics and society