Visions for Australia: Gender

Gender equality will become central to Australia's foreign policy, diplomacy, trade and aid programmers under a new international strategy, Foreign Minister Penny Wong said on Wednesday in Canberra.

Acting Australian High Commissioner to Bangladesh Nardia Simpson has said Australia is committed to advancing gender equality and combating gender-based violence in all its forms.

Islamabad -- The Australian High Commission (AHC) and the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB), in collaboration with Serena Hotels, hosted the 8th AHC-PCB Girls' Cricket Cup in Islamabad, highlighting the transformative power of sports in empowering young girls.

Labor has made great strides towards gender equality among its MPs and senators, but the number of female Coalition members remains stubbornly low

The 2025 Best WorkplacesS for Women in Australia have been announced, recognising companies that lead the way in gender equity, pay transparency, and inclusive workplace policies.

The article reports on a gender pay gap in Australia that favours men, according to an analysis from the Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA).

The article focuses on how social and sexual equality impact the health and economic prosperity of nations, exploring the complex relationships among gender equality, mental health, fertility, and wealth. Topics include the influence of biological and social definitions of sex and gender, ecological and life history factors shaping equality, and the trade-offs between sexual equality, mental health outcomes, and fertility rates.

Gender equality in higher education has been of continued interest to scholars across the fields of sociology, labour, policy and teaching and learning. A number of special issues and country specific reviews on the topic have been published

Gender‐targeted recruitment in policing has elicited varied public responses. This study explores public sentiment toward policing gender targets using a symbolic interactionist and social identity approach.

A South Australian teacher who used to work at a school attended by members of the Plymouth Brethren Christian Church has exposed claims of sexist practices and attitudes towards female staff and students.

Sources at a Catholic girls' college at the centre of a teacher's legal bid to be recognised as non-binary say their school is respectful of gender diversity.

We investigate the gender imbalance in the financial advising industry by analysing 32 in-depth qualitative interviews of female and male financial advisers in Australia and New Zealand. Using the framework of organisational structures, advisers' preferences and stereotypical discrimination, we identify barriers for women and the adaptive strategies they employ to overcome them.

In Australia, gendered hate speech against women is so pervasive and insidious that it is a normalised feature of everyday public discourse. It is often aimed at silencing women, and hindering their ability to participate effectively in civil society. As governmental bodies have recognised, sexist and misogynist language perpetuates gender-based violence by contributing to strict gender norms and constructing women as legitimate objects of hostility. Thus, gendered hate speech, like other forms of hate speech, produces a range of harms which ripple out beyond the targeted individual.