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
Correspondents
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
Essays & reportage
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
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
4 April 2013
Sara Dowse reviews Sheryl Sandberg’s Lean In
Books & arts
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
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
12 April 2012
Researching her new book, Lindsey Hilsum spoke to Libyan women about their role in post-Gaddafi politics
National affairs
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
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
18 November 2010
American-born Sara Dowse traces the career of American-born NSW premier Kristina Keneally
National affairs
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
30 June 2010
Compared with other countries, Australia’s progress in giving women access to political power is patchy, writes Marian Sawer
International
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