Blair Williams

Lecturer, Politics and International Relations, Faculty of Arts Blair.Williams@monash.edu

Biography

Blair is an award-winning academic and a lecturer in Australian Politics at Monash University, following her tenure as a Research Fellow at the Global Institute for Women’s Leadership (GIWL) at the Australian National University. Her research focuses on gendered media coverage of women in politics. She is currently working on several research projects, including an analysis of the gendered media coverage of women leaders’ response to the COVID-19 pandemic, examination of the gendered double standards of Murdoch press coverage of political women, and theorising contemporary Australian political leadership masculinity.

articles

How Kamala Harris is re-energising young voters

Kamala Harris has reinvigorated the Democratic ticket and inspired the voters they need most – women, African-Americans and youth. But it’s not all smooth sailing.

Politics and society

Episode 74: Hear Her Roar – Women’s Safety and Gender Equality

This week on Monash University’s ‘What Happens Next?’ podcast, a live panel of experts in Australian politics and gender discuss the issues around gender equality and women's safety.

What Happens Next?

gender equality concept. Hand flip wooden cube with symbol unequal change to equal sign

The federal budget through a gender lens

The October 2022 budget marks a departure from the “blokier” budgets of recent years, centring gender equality and the care economy rather than high-vis and hard hats.

Politics and society