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What is feminine power? It’s not a trick question. But think about it too long, and soon you’re caught in...

If you can’t hear the echo of women’s anger leaking out of Iran right now, or feel the rumble of...

What is a 13-year-old daughter worth? For Khorsheed, a desperate Afghan mother, the meagre sum of $US670 seemed sadly acceptable....

“It’s important to remember that this happened by accident”. Chanel Contos stares into space, as she tries to explain what...

A tweet doing the rounds last weekend noted its almost fifty years since a touring Frank Sinatra touched off an...

There is extraordinary power in the emotions surfacing in women around Australia right now. The power of this moment is...

When Enid Lyons and Dorothy Tangney stepped over the threshold into Parliament House in 1943 they were late. Not by...

A media bonanza for the shelias’ The Turnbull to Morrison years proved to be a bonanza for women in politics,...

In 1995, in China, 189 countries adopted the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, a comprehensive roadmap to raise the status of women.

I am following Ariya Nani, an elegant and beautiful Swiss Buddhist nun, up rickety bamboo stairs in a rambling forest monastery in the heart of Burma. In a few minutes, my private ordination ceremony will take place as I kneel before one of this country's most distinguished Buddhist monks.