Workplace gender equality is improving in Australia but more action is needed to ensure momentum for change keeps growing, a new report has found. A biennial progress report released by the Workplace Gender Equality Agency showed while Australia’s world-leading workplace reporting program had made a difference, progress on equality had stalled over the past two years….

New South Wales Premier Dominic Perrottet has intervened to get three Liberal Party women into the state’s upper house by dropping three male MPs to guarantee equal numbers of both gender on the ticket for the state election in March 2023. After what appears like a deal brokered between party factions on Dec. 22, sitting…

Commentary A few months ago, a few dozen women gathered in a room in Sydney to participate in a Wikipedia “edit-a-thon,” aimed at writing profiles of women in STEM, heaping praise on these academics simply because they are female. In two hours, the group had created nine new profiles about female scientists/researchers and edited 22…

The government of New South Wales (NSW) has committed to tripling the number of female construction workers to dismantle gender norms and move towards equality. Treasurer Matt Kean said the government is allocating $10 million (US$6.7 million) towards reaching a target of 15 percent of women on work sites by 2030. “This grant program will…

South Korea’s president said Thursday that the abolition of the Ministry of Gender Equality and Family was aimed at “strengthening the protection of women,” despite criticism from opposition lawmakers and women’s rights groups. South Korea’s government has finalized a plan to dissolve the ministry, under which the Welfare and Health Ministry will assume its core…

New South Wales government ministers have lambasted the new workplace behaviour advice, which banned the use of the word “mate” as “straight out of 1984.” The NSW Department of Premier and Cabinet conducted a series of Respect at Work training sessions this week, in which staff were advised not to consume alcohol in the office,…

In an Australian-first Building Equality Policy (BEP), the Victorian government has announced that the country’s most male-dominated industry will need to employ a minimum number of women by 2024 or face penalties. Aimed at “disrupting gender stereotypes,” women now need to make up at least 38 percent of roles in government-contracted projects to help more women…

Australia’s largest medical research foundation has been criticised for prioritising “equality” over “merits” after cutting the University of Melbourne from future grants because the school awarded its honorary doctorates to six white men. The Snow Medical Research Foundation, which has donated over $90 million to medical research in the last two years and donated $16…

Australia’s largest medical research foundation has been criticised for prioritising “equality” over “merits” after cutting the University of Melbourne from future grants because the school awarded its honorary doctorates to six white men. The Snow Medical Research Foundation, which has donated over AU$90 million (US$65 million) to medical research in the last two years and…

Commentary As people from all around the world are gathering this month in New York City for the UN’s annual Commission on the Status of Women, to focus on the theme of “achieving gender equality and empowerment of women and girls” in a variety of settings, I think it’s especially important that we consider the…