Category: Womens Agenda

Two years in the making, a new report highlights some of the devastating impacts climate change and environmental degradation is having on girls and women across different parts of the world. Sadly, it details how the struggle for control of and access to natural resources may be further exacerbating violence

Maria Sharapova’s professional tennis career has come to end, with the five-time grand slam winner announcing her retirement on Wednesday in an exclusive essay for Vanity Fair. Sharapova exploded onto the world stage in 2004, when at just 17, she won Wimbledon, beating Serena Williams in the final. From there,

How do you lead a profession that’s at the core of how we work, into a new decade? Sarah McCann-Bartlett has some ideas as the new CEO of the Australian Human Resources Institute. She sits down to talk the future with Women’s Agenda.  In the last few decades, Sarah McCann Bartlett has

Remember the long fight to remove GST from pads and tampons in Australia? Things could soon be very different in Scotland, where its parliament has voted to make sanitary products like tampons and pads free for women across a number of specific public places like community centres, pharmacies and youth

Government paid parental leave is now part of the working landscape for new parents in Australia, making it hard to remember that prior to 2011, we were one of just two developed countries in the world without such a scheme. But in 2020, we know from ABS data that 95

If you haven’t already seen Cynthia Nixon’s “Be a Lady, They said!” by Girls Girls Girls Magazine yet, stop what you’re doing and watch it immediately. Nixon – an American actress best known for her role on HBO’s Sex and the City and more recently her unsuccessful bid to become Governor

Two of the most influential young women in the world have met at the University of Oxford to discuss their activism. Teenage climate activist, Greta Thunberg, met human rights activist Malala Yousafzai for the first time at the university, where Yousafzai is student. Yousafzai, 22, took to Instagram overnight, posting

How can this keep happening? It’s a question we’ve asked countless times. Last week, of course, but in too many weeks, for too many years. On Monday Prime Minister Scott Morrison finally joined us, as he told parliament “we must reflect on how and where the system failed Hannah and

By Deanna Palen  I’m usually just an armchair feminist who prefers to shout at the telly & mutter to myself – being a solo parent of five, one with special needs, will tend to do that. But Bettina Arndt being awarded an Order of Australia and her myriad goading and

Denise Buiten, University of Notre Dame Australia As the country mourns the horrific murders of Hannah Clarke and her three children, Aaliyah, Laianah and Trey at the hands of their father, many people are trying to make sense of what happened to them – and perhaps learn something to prevent

It’s supposed to protect, but the draft bill could have a detrimental impact on women, writes lawyer Talitha Maugueret. The Federal Government’s recent release of the second draft religious discrimination bill falls far short of its objective to protect people of faith and without faith from discrimination. As lawyer Talitha

Despite growing up on a farm, living a life on the land was not high on the list of priorities for Fiona Simson when she was a teenager. Ironically today, she’s not only a farmer for her in her “day job”, but she represents the interests of tens of thousands