Girls as young as 16 have been seized from markets,private classrooms and the streets of Kabul as well as other provinces,accused of violating strict dress rules.
The tireless activist and union organiser dedicated her life to improving conditions for women and girls.
It’s been a season of biopics of men – building things,going to war,writing music - each with a wife to help us understand her husband’s full complexity.
The City of Melbourne will commission and erect a statue of the first woman to run for parliament in Australia as the city pushes to redress its statue gender imbalance.
Are women too defensive about their media preoccupations? And if we are,is that down to feminist vigilance or patriarchal condescension?
Dale Spender was delighted when the word “mansplaining” gained currency.
Life and art collide in WAtoday’s multiple award-winning journalist Emma Young’s Bridget Jones-ish comic novel The Disorganisation of Celia Stone.
Even when she became the most powerful woman in Australian radio,Wendy Harmer was still “putting up” with men behaving badly around her.
Jessica Rudd admits she led a life of privilege until she had children,when she realised how the inequality built into the childcare system hurt working women
Margaret Betts volunteered for the Wrens in early 1943. “They had the best uniform.”
As women’s rights have been wound back,one teenager and her friends have found a way to study.