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women
Essays & reportage
Susan Kiefel and the politics of judicial diversity
Kcasey McLoughlin
30 November 2016
The appointment of the new chief justice is a reminder that diversity and merit are not mutually exclusive
Correspondents
Labour’s problem with women
David Hayes
1 October 2016
The long walk to equality in Britain is embroiled in cyberbullying and a party’s civil war
Books & arts
The matriarch
Sara Dowse
16 August 2016
Books
| Was Kate Leigh a bad woman, the worst in Sydney?
Books & arts
No surrender
Brian McFarlane
15 December 2015
Cinema
|
Suffragette
seems doubly overdue, writes
Brian McFarlane
Books & arts
Code-breakers
Carolyn Holbrook
10 December 2015
Books
| Australian women have been reporting from war zones since the beginning of the twentieth century, and sometimes that’s meant stepping over the line
Books & arts
The enemy within
Jane Goodall
28 November 2015
Television
| Free-to-air TV can still shift public debate, writes
Jane Goodall.
But can it break free of its own conventions?
Books & arts
Leaning back
Sophie Black
10 November 2015
Books
| What is valuable? What is important? What is right? What is natural? Anne-Marie Slaughter takes on the big issues confronting working women and men, writes
Sophie Black
Books & arts
Anna Bligh, the story so far
Sara Dowse
20 April 2015
Books
|
Sara Dowse
reviews the autobiography of the former Queensland premier
Books & arts
Pregnancy: guidelines and timelines
Jacinta Halloran
6 November 2014
Two accounts of getting, and being, pregnant tell only part of the story about conception and childbirth
Books & arts
Girl, twenty-eight
Sophie Black
22 October 2014
Girls
creator Lena Dunham has the knack of bottling the essence of the thing, writes
Sophie Black
Books & arts
The real Julia
Sara Dowse
15 October 2014
Books
| What happened to the woman who beguiled on election night 2007?
Essays & reportage
So what are feminists to do?
Sara Dowse
14 August 2014
We not only need more women in positions of power, we also need to examine again what that power is about, argues
Sara Dowse
in her 2014 Emily’s List Oration
Books & arts
Letting us in on her secret
Sara Dowse
12 June 2014
Books
| Best known for her undercover exposé
Nickel and Dimed
, Barbara Ehrenreich ventures into entirely different territory in her new book, writes
Sara Dowse
International
Gains for women MPs in post-election India
Indrani Ganguly
9 June 2014
Indrani Ganguly
looks at how women are faring in the political upheaval following the election of the Modi government in India
Books & arts
The social life of Muslim women’s rights
Shakira Hussein
19 March 2014
Lila Abu-Lughod set out to discover “why the emerging Western common sense about Muslim women did not capture what I knew from experience and from reading history.”…
Books & arts
An unknown, an interloper, a feminist
Sybil Nolan
5 March 2014
Books
| Eilean Giblin touched much that was formative in twentieth-century Australia
Books & arts
Neither everything nor nothing
Jane Goodall
15 August 2013
Does misogyny in politics reflect a deeper problem in the character of political debate, asks
Jane Goodall
Essays & reportage
Cracking the dress code
Jane Goodall
5 July 2013
Germaine Greer’s advice to Julia Gillard to “get rid of those bloody jackets!” created a furore. But perhaps she was onto something
Books & arts
The femocrat factor
Sara Dowse
6 June 2013
Should the Australian women’s movement have relied so much on government?
Sara Dowse
responds to Anne Summers’s
The Misogyny Factor
Books & arts
Feminism at the top table
Sara Dowse
4 April 2013
Sara Dowse
reviews Sheryl Sandberg’s
Lean In
Books & arts
Unlucky in love
Anna Cristina Pertierra
9 October 2012
Has the market economy changed the way we love?
Anna Cristina Pertierra
looks at three new books dealing with the difficult intersection of love, sex and gender
Essays & reportage
Yes, women can have it all… on one condition
Helen Hayward
12 July 2012
… You might need to be a university professor.
Helen Hayward
looks at what Anne-Marie Slaughter said in her essay for the
Atlantic
, and how it was received
International
Is that what we fought for?
Lindsey Hilsum
12 April 2012
Researching her new book,
Lindsey Hilsum
spoke to Libyan women about their role in post-Gaddafi politics
National affairs
Defending defence equity
28 September 2011
Despite the views of the Australia Defence Association, cabinet’s decision on women in combat roles is an overdue step forward, writes
Geoffrey Barker
.
National affairs
Australia’s tenacious pay gap
Norman Abjorensen
2 December 2010
Forty-one years after the declaration of the principle of equal pay, we’re still not there, writes
Norman Abjorensen
National affairs
Softening the blow
Sara Dowse
18 November 2010
American-born
Sara Dowse
traces the career of American-born NSW premier Kristina Keneally
National affairs
Quotas for the Liberal Party?
Marian Sawer
7 July 2010
Judith Troeth is trying to persuade Liberals that the presence of more women in the parliamentary party will mean a larger pool of talent for ministerial and leadership positions,…
National affairs
Gillard PM: is gender irrelevant now?
Marian Sawer
30 June 2010
Compared with other countries, Australia’s progress in giving women access to political power is patchy, writes
Marian Sawer
International
Two faces of gender equity in Vietnam
Norman Abjorensen
6 May 2010
“We have jumped forward and gone backward in the space of my adult lifetime,” says one Vietnamese woman.
Norman Abjorensen
reports from Hanoi
National affairs
A different kind of politics
Sara Dowse
1 December 2009
Fiona Nash, elected deputy National Party leader this week, brought together women from the four main political parties a decade ago to force parliament to approve the medical…
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