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CEO and CO-FOUNDER OF GLOBAL NON-PROFIT URGES AUSTRALIANS TO RETHINK THE IMPORTANCE OF LITERACY AND GIRLS’ EDUCATION IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES “When an educated girl enters the workforce to secure economic independence, education’s power to transform lives is undeniable,” says Erin Ganju, CEO and co-founder of Room to Read, who visited Australia last month to promote…Read More
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In response to alarming statistics relating to body image amongst Australia’s young women, the Equality Rights Alliance is running a campaign to fight negative body image. The Alliance is intent on promoting positive body images in the media that show the diversity of natural, real beauty. Guides Australia put out a report today showing that…Read More
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Just when you thought you’d seen every possible way for marketers to pressure girls to be too sexy too soon, along comes another opportunity for stores to sell product and sexualise girls . . . Halloween! Though we may not have grown up with Halloween as a tradition, trick-or-treating is entering our culture in a…Read More
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Women hold up half the sky. — Chinese Proverb. Don’t you just love it when you read a book that changes the way you view the world? Last year for my 40th birthday, Melinda Tankard Reist bought me a copy of the Pulitzer-prize-winning Half The Sky. This brilliant work has been described by the publishers as a…Read More
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I had a fairytale upbringing with time to play – cubby houses in the lounge room, summers jumping over the garden sprinkler, ballet classes, music lessons, cooking for fun, baking scones + ANZAC biscuits + caramel slice and my own personal fairy Starbright. Before I went to school, or so mum always said, I would…Read More
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What was the biggest challenge you faced as a girl? Perhaps like me you had health issues, or maybe a learning disability, or you were bullied at school. Maybe you came from an economically disadvantaged background, a broken home, or a dysfunctional family. Or maybe, your biggest challenge was negotiating your way through high school.…Read More
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On 2nd July 2010, the United Nations General Assembly voted to merge the four agencies working for women’s empowerment, into one single entity. The new agency, United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women or ‘UN Women’ for short, brings together the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM), the Division for…Read More
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Professional women in their 30s are opting out of full-time work at an alarmingly high rate, says the author of new research released today by the University of Melbourne. Only 38 per cent of Generation X, tertiary qualified women participating in a long-running University of Melbourne study work full-time, compared to 90 per cent of…Read More
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Aborted Baby Cries Before Cremation. Crematorium workers in Guangdong Province found an infant crying in a “medical waste” receptacle on its way to being cremated, reports Xinhua, China’s official news agency. The crematorium workers immediately sent the infant back to the hospital. Later that day, the hospital sent the infant back to the crematorium, dead.…Read More
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Recently I stumbled across a new Top 50 Australian Women Bloggers list that attempts to rank websites in order of popularity. Initially I thought the blogger must be using a new algorithm (formula) because Australian Women Online ranked second behind Mamamia. But sadly, this was not the case. While I can appreciate the effort that…Read More
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