We met over the counter at Dymocks,and despite the 40-year difference in our ages,my friend Anne became my biggest cheerleader.
Women have discovered both their potential and their authentic selves over the past 65 years. I expect the next 65 will be about men doing the same.
Just three years ago,thousands of women demanded justice outside Parliament House. Did that campaign end with Scott Morrison’s defeat? Looks like it.
Academic and yoga-devotee Margaret Power helped lift the veil on obstacles to women’s employment opportunities in Australia,leading to better pay and work conditions.
By offering me a financial buffer,my husband is the one supporting my ambitions,not the other way around. Could that be – dare I say it – a feminist act?
Girls as young as 16 have been seized from markets,private classrooms and the streets of Kabul as well as other provinces,accused of violating strict dress rules.
The tireless activist and union organiser dedicated her life to improving conditions for women and girls.
It’s been a season of biopics of men – building things,going to war,writing music - each with a wife to help us understand her husband’s full complexity.
The City of Melbourne will commission and erect a statue of the first woman to run for parliament in Australia as the city pushes to redress its statue gender imbalance.
Are women too defensive about their media preoccupations? And if we are,is that down to feminist vigilance or patriarchal condescension?
Dale Spender was delighted when the word “mansplaining” gained currency.