Gender Equality

A report has found Hobart City Council staff breached anti-discrimination laws by lying to councillor Louise Elliot about the availability of a venue for a planned event about "the impact" of transgender women in women's sports.

Women are paid 13.5 per cent less than men in the public sector and 21.7 per cent less in the private sector, according to the Workplace Gender Equality Agency scorecard.

A study by The Australia Institute finds superannuation tax concessions will only widen the wealth divide for women and low-income earners like Debra.

The 12-year-old is one of six young women who were hand-picked from around the world to participate in a driver development program looking to improve equality in motorsport.

A Catholic school rebukes the archbishop of Hobart after Julian Porteous earlier this month railed against "woke" culture, same-sex marriage and abortion rights.

No woman has raced in Formula 1 for nearly half a century but a group of 13- and 14-year-old female racers are making their first moves on a long road that could lead to the top.

A letter to the parents of Catholic school students in Tasmania detailing a list of grievances by the archbishop, including that the church "cannot stand as we experience our freedoms being taken from us", is criticised by politicians and LGBTIQA+ advocates.

From wealth to housing, health and environment — see how hundreds of regions across the country compare when it comes to wellbeing.

While the nation's politicians discuss a national domestic violence crisis, these women on the frontline continue their unrelenting work helping victims and saving lives.

Police in Victoria confronted 94,000 family violence incidents in the past 12 months, according to Assistant Commissioner Lauren Callaway.

Over the weekend, AFL clubs led a minute's silence for victims of gender-based violence in an important symbolic moment for a code that has previously failed to hold perpetrators accountable. But one coach's comments show attitudes still have a long way to go.

Jayne Stinson, who is the first South Australian MP to take 20 weeks maternity leave, is calling for more support for parents working in state parliament, after giving birth to a son earlier this year. 

Australians will march this weekend in rallies around the country calling for an end to violence against women. Haven't we marched enough? asks Virginia Trioli.

Our leaders agree that violence against women is a national crisis — an emergency. But a national emergency requires an emergency response.

Two horrific attacks in Sydney have sparked debate over what defines an ideologically motivated attack, and whether deliberately targeting women should count as an act of terror.

After enduring countless sexist insults, 15-year-old Mia Murphy and her friend decided to call out the haters in a creative way, in Melbourne's Hosier Lane.

Community leader Sissy Austin, who publicly shared her own experience of violence in bushland near Ballarat last year, has organised a rally against men's violence for Friday evening.

MONA refusing to allow a man to enter its Ladies Lounge was discriminatory, a tribunal has found. The tribunal's deputy president has also called out the behaviour of a group of women for their "performance art" during the hearing in March.

A lecturer from the University of WA says a recently secured pay rise for aged care workers is unlikely to change the way the sector is valued, and that more work to address unconscious bias is required.

Researchers at Deakin University find that 85 per cent of sportswomen have had their wellbeing affected by online harm, calling for sporting clubs and organisations to work together to solve the problem. 

"Count Her In!" was the theme for International Women's Day, and this year Australian womanhood had the chance to leaf through the newly released pay gap data over their celebratory cupcakes, writes Annabel Crabb. 

With fewer than 4 per cent of Australian-born women working as engineers, the push to recruit more females into STEM careers is building.

Women generally retire with 25 per cent less than men. The promise to include superannuation in paid parental leave aims to narrow the gap.

It's official, men are paid more than women at many of the country's major companies, including banks, retailers, legal firms and mines, but what is being done to address it?

The gender pay gap in some of Australia's biggest companies is the lowest it's ever been, but it's still way too high.