Feminism
Arts & Culture
Analysis
K-Pop Demon Hunters’ continued domination redefines streaming
Unlike other shows, the idols in K-Pop Demon Hunters are not only glossy but highly relatable, messy and human. This may help explain why it's become the most-watched Netflix movie of all time
Arts & Culture
‘The Man’: Taylor’s feminism could go so much further
Taylor Swift’s ‘The Man’ promotes the idea of women being given the same standards as men, we should instead focus on not making ‘alpha male’ the standard
Arts & Culture
A doll is just a doll is just a doll
The new Barbie movie has renewed discussion about the message she sends and feminism – but it’s really just the fallacy of plastic role models
Arts & Culture
Provocative women in cinema
The cliché of the ‘sensitive’ woman filmmaker ignores the long history of confronting female-directed movies
Sciences & Technology
Challenging the climate of bias
Although there’s still inequality in STEMM, the largest ever all-woman expedition to Antarctica is working to challenge the future
Arts & Culture
Book extract
Sex and the remake
A new book explores the fraught process of taking on a TV or film remake, and why updating attitudes to sex may not always work
Arts & Culture
The human animal: Breastfeeding in public
A new production puts the quiet, intimate act of breastfeeding on stage, and asks us to consider what it means to be an ecofeminist mother to a girl in the 21st century
Arts & Culture
Nanette, self-deprecation and when not to use it
Hannah Gadsby has shone a light on the dark side of Australians’ fondness for self-deprecation
Sciences & Technology
Podcasts
How does gender diversity improve science?
Men continue to outnumber women in science, technology, engineering and maths professions; what has been the effect of this predominantly male lens?
Sciences & Technology
Podcasts
Smashing through science’s glass ceiling
From a schoolgirl who studied science to meet boys, Professor Frances Separovic became the first female chemistry professor in Victoria. Now she champions young women in science