The naming, for the first time, of specific companies, not just industries, and what they pay their male and female workers, is set to pressure employers to take action.
The federal government’s announcement of $3.5 million to fund a healthy masculinities project trial is promising, but lacks detail on precisely how the funds will be used, and what will inform the programs.
We need to move beyond whether cancel culture is good or bad, and understand in more nuanced terms what it means, especially given the political weaponising of it.
Despite the successes of the Women’s World Cup, there were many examples that highlighted the unequal and inequitable treatment of the women’s game.
Not since the infamous ‘Bodyline’ series of the 1930s has cricket been the source of so much tension between Australia and Britain.
Has the toxic workplace culture within Parliament House improved at all, despite the groundbreaking Jenkins review?
New research shows Indigenous women experiencing intimate partner violence had engaged with police to help them. However, many didn’t receive the support that potentially could have saved their lives.
The stereotype of the old woman is anxious, dependent, useless, and a burden. But interviews with older women found them contributing to society in myriad ways.
There’s been little debate about exactly what cancel culture is, where it originated, and what this might mean for how one should respond.
Children’s books implicitly shape the minds of young readers – and are covertly censored in many ways. But revising occasional words won’t usually shift the values regarded as outdated in the text.
Local councils are the best level of government to protect sports-playing children from pervasive and harmful abuse, harassment, and discrimination.
A new project is shining a light on gender inequalities in the Australian jazz and improvisation sector.
Find out how privilege and disparate levels of access to basic resources such as education are contributing to social inequality in Australia – threatening the egalitarian ideals of 'the land of the fair go’.
A new episode of the ‘What Happens Next?’ podcast reveals the serious side of funny business. Has cancel culture gone too far?
How did assumptions and biases find their way into machines? As groups around the world fight for social equality, is AI helping or hurting our progress?
A new collection of essays describes a political arena in which the structural and cultural barriers facing women are contradictory and self-defeating.
With so much recent focus on how women are treated, we need to look first at how we use language. And for a long time, it’s been used to belittle and silence women.
Systemic sexism, harassment and bullying are not a new storyline for the CFA – surely it’s time to stop suppressing the fire and start fully-involved reform?
With the COVID-19 pandemic still causing volatility, and the vaccine rollout just beginning, the next few months may prove to be the most difficult yet for the Morrison government.
Like the US, Australia’s "massage parlours" are reliant on the prostitution, fetishisation and trafficking of Asian women.
Richmond Football Club CEO Brendon Gale has a distinctive perspective on the culture of sport. He's been a player, head of the players' association, and now a member of the executive. He talks to host Susan Carland about how the game's culture has changed, and the work clubs like his are doing to try and drive change. We’ve also gathered the very best nuggets of wisdom from all our experts to help individuals take action and get involved.
In interviews, female teachers at three all-boys' schools in two capital cities have disclosed instances of sexism from students, male colleagues, and parents.
In this episode, we look at what’s happening to change the culture in elite sport, and find out why calling out sexist, racist and homophobic language is helping tackle the toxicity.
While Australians demand change, the silence from Canberra on violence against women and gender inequality is a national shame.
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