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The wonderful thing about saying goodbye and packing up an office, are the hours of discovery! As I’ve prepared to leave my role today as Chief Editor of BroadAgenda and founding Director of the 50/50 by 2030 Foundation, I’ve been meandering down memory lane. Reading, sorting, tossing and pouring over

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We cannot solve problems we do not understand, argues Ramona Vijeyarasa. In the final article of this 3-part series, exclusive to BroadAgenda, Dr Vijeyarasa, the lead scholar behind the Gender Legislative Index, explains the importance of gender disaggregated data.   We cannot fix what we do not know. It

With last week’s cabinet reshuffle, the Morrison Government was hoping to reset, recasting its blokey, accident-prone blundering about the safety and security of women inside and outside Parliament while wresting an out-of-control agenda back onto familiar territory -‘business as usual’. Troubled by years of spin and little progress, many women,

The Minister for Families and Social Services, Anne Ruston, is right. There is “a rot in society”. But Scott Morrison is wrong. Anointing a “prime minister for women”, even as a joke, and creating a “taskforce” of female ministers, will not “shake up what needs shaking up”. Like most rotten

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Can good law reduce the gender gap, or does it need to go hand in hand with awareness-raising around the law’s core intent and purpose? In Part 2 of this series on Australia’s gender responsive legislation Ramona Vijeyarasa discusses the Equal Opportunity for Women in the Workplace Amendment Act.

The goal of gender equality is far from reached in Australia, so what next? In this timely and excellent 3-part series exclusive to BroadAgenda Ramona Vijeyarasa, the lead scholar behind the Gender Legislative Index, examines the potential for gender-responsive legislation to correct the discrimination and inequality facing women.  As

Why do men still do so much of the talking, for women? Although the terminology is relatively recent,  ‘mansplaining’ was first identified way back in Homer’s Odyssey, some 3000 years ago, as that brilliant historian Prof Mary Beard reminds us in “Women and Power: a manifesto”. Similarly, when the

How does a young woman who is subjected to brutal sexual slavery in Sierra Leone, escape a civil war, land in Australia and rebuild her life? And why does motherhood send her back to the land that terrorized her, as she tries to empower some of the most disempowered women

Is Australia on the brink of a powerful, new women’s movement? Could this be the change we’ve been waiting for? And what happens after so much venting of such raw anger? This week has seen a public show of force unlike anything we’ve witnessed in decades,