National affairs
30 August 2018
From the archive | In 2010 Judith Troeth called for quotas to increase the number of Liberal women in parliament. She’s still waiting for the party to tackle the problem
Books & arts
9 July 2018
Books | Two writers grapple with the demands of motherhood, real and imagined
International
22 June 2018
Ireland’s vote to legalise abortion is having a percussive impact on its neighbours
National affairs
29 May 2018
Are restrictive defamation laws discouraging Australian women from coming forward?
International
28 May 2018
Maternal and infant mortality rates in the United States are already shamefully high, and the Trump administration’s policies are making them worse. But California is…
Essays & reportage
8 April 2018
The story of Elizabeth Macarthur, a driving force in early New South Wales, highlights gaps in the story of colonial Australia
National affairs
23 March 2018
#MeToo leapt to prominence by naming names, but it also kicked off a quiet revolution in the media (including a long-overdue New York Times obituary for Charlotte Bronte)
Essays & reportage
12 February 2018
Can the campaign encompass vastly different experiences?
Books & arts
18 December 2017
Books | Mary Beard writes with characteristic verve about the long history of men silencing women
International
6 December 2017
How the post-Weinstein furore shook British politics
Books & arts
14 March 2017
The Australian Dictionary of Biography is looking for help in filling the gaps where notable women should be
National affairs
16 December 2016
Controversy over a statue in the city’s inner west has deep historical roots
Essays & reportage
8 December 2016
It wasn’t until 1966 that women in the Australian public service won the right to remain employed after marriage, overcoming resistance even from their own union
Essays & reportage
30 November 2016
The appointment of the new chief justice is a reminder that diversity and merit are not mutually exclusive
1 October 2016
The long walk to equality in Britain is embroiled in cyberbullying and a party’s civil war
Books & arts
16 August 2016
Books | Was Kate Leigh a bad woman, the worst in Sydney?
Books & arts
15 December 2015
Cinema | Suffragette seems doubly overdue, writes Brian McFarlane
Books & arts
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
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
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
20 April 2015
Books | Sara Dowse reviews the autobiography of the former Queensland premier
Books & arts
6 November 2014
Two accounts of getting, and being, pregnant tell only part of the story about conception and childbirth
Books & arts
22 October 2014
Girls creator Lena Dunham has the knack of bottling the essence of the thing, writes Sophie Black
Books & arts
15 October 2014
Books | What happened to the woman who beguiled on election night 2007?
Essays & reportage
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
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
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
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
5 March 2014
Books | Eilean Giblin touched much that was formative in twentieth-century Australia
Books & arts
15 August 2013
Does misogyny in politics reflect a deeper problem in the character of political debate, asks Jane Goodall