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  • 7 Mar 2025
    • Asia
    • Sex and Gender
    • Sustainability

    Getting dads to care: A key to equality in Asia

    Ramona Vijeyarasa
    Declining birth rates, growing elderly populations and notable gender gaps in workforce participation are just some reasons for reform across the region.
  • 6 Mar 2025
    • Asean
    • Sex and Gender

    Imagine a first for ASEAN, a woman as the Secretary-General

    Mutiara Indriani , Lucy Klein
    The Southeast Asian grouping has made strides in gender equality but a female leader would be an important step.
  • 5 Mar 2025
    • Sex and Gender
    • Technology

    The lost potential in STEM: Why women are still left behind

    Lisa Singh
    The ever-growing role of technology in our everyday lives underscores the need for policy and cultural change to ensure the best minds are at work.
  • 4 Mar 2025
    • China
    • Hong Kong
    • Human rights
    • Sex and Gender
    • China's Government

    Feminism is still a dirty word in China

    Ciara Morris
    Organised feminist activism is nearly impossible in China in 2025, but Chinese women are still talking.
  • 3 Mar 2025
    • Terrorism
    • Sex and Gender
    • Technology
    • Transnational Challenges
    • Emerging Threats

    The hidden national security threat: Misogynistic extremism

    Emma Gerhardy
    Hate against women is often the precursor to radicalisation and mass violence. It’s time to address the connection.
  • 7 Feb 2025
    • Australia
    • Sex and Gender

    As US retreats, Australia advances on gender equality

    Joanna Pradela , Alice Ridge
    The new International Gender Equality Strategy is an important marker – with much work to be done.
  • 9 Jan 2025
    • Iran
    • Sex and Gender

    No, the compulsory hijab hasn’t made Iranian women safer

    Kourosh Ziabari
    The numbers don’t lie.
  • 2 Jan 2025
    • Australia
    • Sex and Gender

    Study exposes gender gap in foreign affairs reporting

    Andrea Carson
    Not only with male reporters, but the experts likely to be quoted or appear on opinion pages.
  • 1 Nov 2024
    • Pacific Islands
    • New Caledonia
    • Sex and Gender

    An all-male Pacific peace mission to New Caledonia excludes women’s voices in the crisis

    Nicole George
    Women are being made invisible, yet their actions are consequential.
  • 29 Oct 2024
    • Aid & Development
    • Sex and Gender

    Caring for carers: The gender challenge in peacebuilding

    Eleanor Gordon
    A new report shows women with children, in particular, often find it difficult to remain within or return to this type of work.
  • 10 Oct 2024
    • Afghanistan
    • Sex and Gender

    The cruelty in banning Afghan women from poetry

    Isabelle Zhu-Maguire
    Another tool has been taken away by state-mandated isolation.
  • 18 Sep 2024
    • Trade
    • Sex and Gender

    Breaking barriers: Enhancing women’s participation in trade across the Indo-Pacific

    Sunaina Kumar
    A gender-inclusive trade agenda will help create better jobs and unlock greater economic potential.
  • 14 Aug 2024
    • Australia
    • Diplomacy
    • Sex and Gender

    Wong’s century: A closer look at gender mix in Australia’s top diplomatic roles

    Daniel Flitton
    Female representation is near its highest. But some posts appear more equal than others.
  • 30 Jul 2024
    • Aid & Development
    • Pacific Islands
    • Sex and Gender

    Gender equality, the Pacific way

    Mercy Masta , Elisabeth Jackson
    “Using culture to change culture” is how to make real progress in addressing a longstanding regional challenge.
  • 26 Jul 2024
    • G20
    • Sustainability
    • Sex and Gender

    Bring women to the table to talk ocean sustainability

    Cherry Hitkari , Genevieve Donnellon-May
    The upcoming G20 summit in Brazil must focus on what has so far remained neglected – women’s experience of ocean challenges.
  • 14 May 2024
    • Afghanistan
    • Pakistan
    • Sex and Gender

    Targeting girls education: Pakistan’s tribal areas suffer under Taliban influence 

    Syed Fazl-e-Haider
    Schools are the best weapon against extremism, that’s why the militants fear them.
  • 26 Apr 2024
    • Indonesia
    • Sex and Gender

    60 years of Kartini Day: Indonesia’s feminist pioneer or political pawn?

    Meg Hocking
    The story of a 19th century Javanese noblewoman has been co-opted for control but also liberation.
  • 23 Apr 2024
    • Taiwan
    • Sex and Gender

    In the Olympics of Drag, Taiwan just took the gold

    Kazimier Lim
    Nymphia Wind’s victory on RuPaul’s Drag Race is historic, with implications for Taiwanese politics and international relations.
  • 19 Apr 2024
    • Afghanistan
    • Sex and Gender

    Afghan women: The silent victims of Taliban brutality

    Sanchita Bhattacharya
    The Taliban is on a relentless mission to erase women from the political, economic, and societal discourse of Afghanistan.
  • 8 Mar 2024
    • Australia
    • Pacific Islands
    • Fiji
    • Sex and Gender

    Supporting Pacific women to tell the region’s stories

    Rosi Tamani-Doviverata , Kathy McLeish
    Ensuring all local voices are heard makes for far more powerful reporting.
  • 8 Mar 2024
    • Development Assistance
    • Southeast Asia
    • Poverty
    • Multilateral Development Banks
    • Sex and Gender

    Gender equality financing: Spotlight on Southeast Asia

    Grace Stanhope
    A discrepancy in data collection for gender-led funding is skewing the stats on development support in the region.
  • 8 Mar 2024
    • Australia and the Pacific
    • Pacific Islands
    • Fiji
    • Nauru
    • Papua New Guinea
    • Solomon Islands
    • Tonga
    • Tuvalu
    • Sex and Gender

    State of play for Pacific women in 2024

    Jessica Collins
    When the playing field is levelled, the dividends are doubled, both in politics and sport.
  • 22 Feb 2024
    • Europe
    • Sex and Gender

    Out of the shadows: Women as partners resisting oppression

    Angela G. Palmer
    Yulia Navalnaya – widow of Alexey Navalny – follows in the steps of other brave women forced in sorrow to carry on a political cause.
  • 7 Feb 2024
    • Aid & Development
    • Australia
    • Pacific Islands
    • Papua New Guinea
    • Sex and Gender

    Whose security is really at stake? Gender must be prioritised in Australia‑PNG security agreement

    Sarah Morley
    More police can’t be the answer when police have long been part of the problem.
  • 10 Jan 2024
    • Japan
    • Sex and Gender

    “An awkward photo‑op”: Japan’s persistent gender problem

    Tan Ming Hui
    A summit blunder begs the question of how women can fight for equality when they’re not even at the table.
  • 24 Nov 2023
    • Aid & Development
    • China
    • Taiwan
    • Pacific Islands
    • Sex and Gender

    China and Taiwan are big Pacific donors – but not for gender equality

    Jessica Collins
    More clarity on the flows of funds would help to assign what little credit is due.
  • 22 Nov 2023
    • Aid & Development
    • Australia
    • Pacific Islands
    • Sex and Gender

    Does Australia’s walk match its talk about helping Pacific women advance?

    Jessica Collins
    Big dollars are one thing, meaningful outcomes another.
  • 20 Nov 2023
    • Aid & Development
    • Australia
    • Pacific Islands
    • Sex and Gender

    Pacific Aid Map: Big data gaps are skewing the story about women

    Jessica Collins
    Better reporting is needed to properly understand which projects are targeting gender issues in the region.
  • 9 Nov 2023
    • Climate change
    • Sex and Gender

    COP28: Why a gender power divide threatens climate progress

    Sarah Morley , Isabelle Zhu-Maguire
    Global negotiations often sideline gender as a “women’s issue” rather than being essential to the response.
  • 17 Oct 2023
    • Australia and the Pacific
    • Technology
    • Pacific Islands
    • Sex and Gender

    Empowering women in the Pacific: A collaborative effort to confront online abuse

    Julie Inman Grant
    A regional symposium was an important step in tackling technology-facilitated gender-based violence.
  • 5 Oct 2023
    • Sex and Gender

    Women in international affairs: beyond glass ceilings to the glass cliff

    Elise Stephenson
    Is the international equal and inclusive leadership pipeline, clogged, leaky, shrinking or splitting?
  • 12 Sep 2023
    • Aid & Development
    • Australia
    • Australian Foreign Aid
    • Sex and Gender

    Finding a place for youth leadership in Australia’s new International Development Policy

    Helen Berents , Katrina Lee-Koo
    Young people will be central to addressing regional challenges so their meaningful inclusion must be ensured.
  • 24 Aug 2023
    • Australia in the World
    • Sex and Gender

    Australia showcased gender equality on the pitch. Now let’s try it on budget policy

    Ramona Vijeyarasa
    This government has the opportunity to get serious about gender responsive budgeting by upskilling its ministries.
  • 7 Aug 2023
    • Australia in the World
    • Foreign Policy
    • Sex and Gender

    Why the F word matters if we’re serious about gender equality in foreign policy

    Joanna Pradela , Alice Ridge
    The problem with an implied rather than explicit feminist approach is that it is all too easy to ignore.
  • 4 Aug 2023
    • Australia
    • Diplomacy
    • Global Issues
    • Pacific Islands
    • Africa
    • Sex and Gender

    Women belong everywhere and this World Cup proves football can be the great equaliser

    Jessica Collins
    Respect for female athletes “tearing it up on the pitch” must translate into respect off the field, too.
  • 15 Jun 2023
    • Asia
    • Global Issues
    • Sex and Gender

    The importance of pride: supporting LGBTQ rights in Asia

    Brenda R. Alegre
    The recent Sydney WorldPride was a milestone moment in connecting a regional and global movement.
  • 14 Jun 2023
    • Space exploration
    • Sex and Gender

    Expanding the Women, Peace and Security agenda to the next frontier – space

    Kareena Dhillon , Elise Stephenson
    Australia could have an outsized impact promoting “responsible behaviours” in space through diplomacy and gender advocacy.
  • 20 Apr 2023
    • Afghanistan
    • Sex and Gender

    Don’t reward the Taliban’s gender apartheid with recognition

    Farkhondeh Akbari , Jacqui True
    Returning diplomats to Afghanistan would send a terrible message to women and girls that the world has given up on them.
  • 8 Mar 2023
    • China
    • China's Government
    • Human rights
    • Sex and Gender

    Beijing and the birth rate: a question of human rights for women

    Yun Jiang
    Despite the government's gender positive rhetoric, Chinese women are still viewed as resources of the party state.
  • 8 Mar 2023
    • Asia
    • Pacific Islands
    • Sex and Gender

    “Amplify their voice”: Promoting gender equity in Asia and the Pacific

    Daniel Flitton
    The regional head of UN Women has a simple but crucial message on this International Women’s Day.
  • 8 Mar 2023
    • Sex and Gender

    Women and politics: a new world order

    Clare Caldwell
    With geopolitical oxygen so often depleted by autocratic strongmen, how might a globe dominated by female leaders look?
  • 3 Mar 2023
    • Fiji
    • Sex and Gender

    A new era of democracy for Fiji – but where are the women?

    Romitesh Kant , Kerryn Baker
    A steep decrease in the number of women representatives after the election suggests growing disengagement.
  • 16 Feb 2023
    • Afghanistan
    • Sex and Gender

    Is the tide turning on classroom bans for Afghan girls?

    Adam H. Dehsabzi
    In Afghanistan, there is increasing dissatisfaction with the suspension of female higher education, even within the Taliban.
  • 7 Feb 2023
    • Asia
    • Sex and Gender

    Valuing Asia’s women leaders

    Ramona Vijeyarasa
    Telling the Asian stories remind us that these are not “Australian”, or “Asian” or “American” experiences – but global.
  • 2 Feb 2023
    • New Zealand
    • United States
    • Sex and Gender

    Women leaders: not so poles apart

    Erin Hurley
    In seemingly different settings, Jacinda Ardern and Nancy Pelosi confronted much the same challenges.
  • 18 Jan 2023
    • Southeast Asia
    • Australia
    • Australian trade, investment & economy
    • Technology
    • Sex and Gender

    Link start-ups ecosystems to build influence in Southeast Asia

    Robert Law
    Australia should launch a major initiative to support investment with new business prospects in the region.
  • 16 Jan 2023
    • Yemen
    • Sex and Gender

    A seat at the negotiating table: How women are building peace in Yemen

    Jena Jaensch
    Peace is not just the absence of conflict but dismantling the structures that contribute to gender-based violence.
  • 2 Nov 2022
    • Aid & Development
    • Australian Foreign Aid
    • Sex and Gender

    Where does Australia’s new aid budget leave gender equality?

    Annabel Dulhunty
    Gender equality is not just an “add-on”, it is essential to a functioning society. Funding must reflect that.
  • 21 Sep 2022
    • Indonesia
    • Japan
    • Sex and Gender

    Economic diplomacy: Womenomics shifts from Tokyo to Jakarta

    Greg Earl
    Can a female finance minister in Indonesia avoid the demographic dilemma that has handicapped Japan’s evolution?
  • 16 Aug 2022
    • Pacific Islands
    • New Zealand
    • Sex and Gender

    Wrong balance of power in Pacific

    Elzanne Bester
    New Zealand can bolster the international rules-based order by working towards Pacific women’s political representation.
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