Happy New Year If you’re already struggling to stick to your new year’s resolutions as the first month of 2013 draws to a close: the good news is there are another eleven months to keep on trying. There’s always a…
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What we can achieve in one generation
This 6th February marks a decade since the then First Lady of Nigeria, Mrs Stella Obasanjo officially declared the date as the International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting (FGM/C). Five years later in 2008, the UN Population…
When a house is a home
All the talk of the gender salary gap and whether or not you can you live on $32 a day as a sole-parent could be enough to make you despair (who would have thought there would be gender-gap deniers, and…
60 seconds with Azam Naghavi
PhD Scholar and international student If you could have any job in the world, what would it be? Being a teacher. I was a teacher and a counsellor and when I go back to Iran, I’ll be teaching at university.…
The WRAP #4, November: Still birth, international students & 60 seconds with Maria Hach
Welcome to the WRAP number 4. As many of you would have already gathered from our chats here on the WRAP, we are pretty keen on statistics. When we can find them, that is. But, no matter how compelling or shocking…
Ethnicity plays a role in the stillbirth story
Australia was recently ranked 7th among 165 countries around the world for best places to be a mother. This is a truly fine achievement – an acknowledgement of the relative privilege many women in Australia enjoy. But before we start…
Closing the gaps in health for international students
Here’s another statistical feather to Australia’s cap: Australia has been ranked number 1 by the World Economic Forum for closing the gender gap on educational attainment. No ‘ifs’ or ‘buts’ about it, it’s a ranking we can truly be proud of,…
60 seconds with Maria Hach
MCWH National Training Manager and author of Common Threads If you were a super-heroine, what powers would you like to have? Teleportation because I’m pretty lazy and I really hate traffic – I would use it in my everyday life to…
THE WRAP #2
Welcome to our second edition of the WRAP. The Australian Human Rights Commission has published a report following the study tour undertaken by the UN Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women earlier this year. It was a great opportunity to be part of…
Honouring the lives of migrant women
How often do we pay tribute to the immigrant and refugee women who came to Australia in the mass migration of the post-war period? These women – for many of us, our mothers or our grandmothers – have left such…