When someone asks you, “What music do you listen to?” the response may vary, but more often than not, you will avoid pop as the go to answer. Rock, EDM, Jazz, Classical music; anything is better than to say pop….
“We can’t succeed when half of us are held back.” -Malala Yousafzai It’s International Women’s Day. One day out of the year to celebrate that we are successful, despite a widening gender pay gap, to be proud that we are driving…
As a white Australian, I feel ill-equipped to speak on behalf of an entire people. But, as a user of social media, I can confidently write that I am continually frustrated by the double standard of prejudice I see in…
Youtube star, Jay Salads recently posted a social experiment video that sought to highlight the duality between the use of breasts as sexual objects vs. their intended use; to sustain an infant. This issue has been highlighted more frequently recently with Trollstation posting…
I was skyping my brother when I realised something. He had a job interview coming up, so I asked him if he had prepared for it. “Mmm…not yet,” he told me nonchalantly. His calmness bothered me. I, leaving a few…
Would you like to know how a rebel found her cause and was named as one of Melbourne’s 100 top most influential people in 2011 after being a party-girl lacking ambition for much of her late teens and early twenties?…
At the University of Pennsylvania’s graduate business school, Wharton, a club has been started on campus with a focus on gender equality – what makes it different to other gender equality groups? – It’s run entirely by men. It’s called ‘The…
Over the past 40 years, the number of women filing patents with the US Patent and Trade Office in the field of academia has risen dramatically and swiftly. In an analysis run by Associate Professor, Cassidy Y Sugimoto at the…
We’ve all heard it before, being told that we ‘throw like a girl’, ‘fight like a girl’, ‘run like a girl’, ‘cry like a girl – they’re all used in a derogatory manner to imply weakness and yet American company,…
In Sweden, women earn on average, $346,000 less than men over the course of their working life. In a PSA to draw attention to the issue, Annelie Nordstrom, chairwoman of Sweden’s largest union, ‘Kommunal’ is transformed into a man in the comically titled…
Photographer Kate Parker’s images are enigmatic. Strong and fierce, her snaps (most specifically in her project ‘Strong is the New Pretty’ depict more than just her daughters going about their everyday life, they show the power of confidence, of childhood innocence and…
Although it’s 2015, gender biases still exist (surprising, no?). Obviously they have improved over the last decades, but there are still many careers and fields of study that are considered “historically male-dominated.” One of those is engineering. Isis Anchalee, a…
After a slew of critical comments on her video blog about the way she uses her hands and holds her brushes, this beauty vlogger created a video for her taunters and for anyone out there who has been victimised via…
While the Women’s Suffrage Movement has been a battle fought since the 18th Century, it is astounding that some countries are still only just coming onboard almost 300 years later. 300! In 1718 Sweden, taxpaying female ‘members of city guilds…
This striking photoseries entitled “Mädchenland” or ‘Kingdom of Girls’, is the product of photographer, Karolin Klüppel for an interview with Mic. The series focuses on the matrilineal Khasi culture in the state of Meghhalaya (India) wherein women are revered and in Karolin’s words “To disrespect a…
After being approached by a client who had suffered a brutal stabbing at the hands of a man whom she’d rejected, Flavia Carvalho a Brazilian tattoo artist, founded a heart-warming project called A Pele da Flor (or The Skin of…