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Because when the party is over, no one will remember the horses, but everyone will remember 'Wheelie-bin Girl', writes Ben Pobjie.
Topics: national-days, women, shame, journalism, horse-racing, australia
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| UpdatedDespite the strides women have made to break the "glass ceiling", experts say recent media coverage of "unladylike" behaviour at the Melbourne Cup and "unfashionable cleavage" highlights how society is failing to kill off sexism.
Topics: women, community-and-society, media-studies, internet-culture, information-and-communication, journalism, australia, melbourne-3000
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| UpdatedPresidential candidate Hillary Clinton has smashed through America's glass ceiling. But how well do you know the pioneering female leaders who came before her?
Topics: us-elections, women, united-states
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| UpdatedHillary Clinton's strengths and experience may be the reason she becomes the first woman to lose a presidential election as a major party candidate, writes John Barron.
Topics: us-elections, elections, world-politics, people, women
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A former MP has labelled Safe Schools "disgusting" as Tasmanian Liberal Party members pass a motion at the party's annual state conference calling for the education program to be abolished.
Topics: liberals, schools, government-and-politics, education, bullying, women, launceston-7250, tas
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Do men need to 'woman up' when it comes to sharing the burden of contraception, asks Jo Fox. And does a new DIY intrauterine insemination device really give women the freedom its creators claim?
Topics: parenting, women, womens-health, sexual-health, pregnancy-and-childbirth
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From festival line-ups to young start-ups — the Australian music scene has a gender problem.
Topics: music, music-industry, arts-and-entertainment, women, australia
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| UpdatedAmerica had never seen a first lady like Michelle Obama. As she enters her final day in the post, look back on some of her impressive achievements.
Topics: us-elections, women, popular-culture, government-and-politics, united-states
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| UpdatedThe Mayor of the biggest city in the election battleground state of North Carolina believes the US presidential election is about gender.
Topics: women, community-and-society, us-elections, government-and-politics, world-politics, united-states
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An Australian kayaker who paddled solo around the world has arrived on home soil, completing a 23,000 kilometre journey between Germany and Australia.
Topics: canoeing-and-kayaking, human-interest, women, community-and-society, lifestyle, rivers, oceans-and-reefs, travel-and-tourism, cairns-4870, torres-strait-islands, germany, papua-new-guinea
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Topics: canoeing-and-kayaking, travel-and-tourism, oceans-and-reefs, lifestyle, community-and-society, women, cairns-4870, papua-new-guinea
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Topics: canoeing-and-kayaking, women, torres-strait-islands, cairns-4870
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| UpdatedShakespeare's Seven Ages of Man may be one of the playwright's most quoted passages. But what about the Seven Ages of Woman?
Topics: women, womens-health, lifelong-learning, lifestyle, perth-6000, wa, australia
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| UpdatedThe new Miss Solomon Islands still has ambitions to be a doctor, but she says she wants to be a role model for all women in the Solomons and a career in politics at some point in the future is not out of the question.
Topics: women, pacific, solomon-islands
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| UpdatedAfter photobombing a news report which reportedly received more than 100 million views on social media, Mackay's Georgia Knoll has launched her modelling career.
Topics: fashion, disabilities, women, human-interest, mackay-4740
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The art of crochet finds new fans thanks to small classes run in Hobart.
Topics: craft, lifelong-learning, women, hobart-7000
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Delegates at this year's annual gathering for women from rural and regional New South Wales say the event has helped to empower and connect them.
Topics: rural-women, women, broken-hill-2880
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| UpdatedSolomon Islands women from rural and urban areas are due to gather in Honiara on Monday for a national women's forum.
Topics: women, pacific, solomon-islands
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An attempt this week to have yoga pants ostensibly outlawed is not the first coup against women's comfort, writes Jo Fox.
Topics: feminism, community-and-society, women, offbeat, human-interest, australia
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| UpdatedArchival photographs capture the early days of an event that began with a feminist bonfire.
Topics: women, sexual-offences, feminism, darwin-0800
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| UpdatedYoga pants may not seem like a controversial fashion statement, but over the last week women have taken to social media and the streets for their right to wear their favourite 'active wear'.
Topics: health, women, fashion, united-states
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While the gender pay gap is not changing, the reasons for the inequality are, according to a new report, which says most discrimination is systemic and "much more sinister".
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Topics: women, gladstone-4680
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| UpdatedThe Queensland Country Women's Association votes to open its doors to men but says it will not be changing its name.
Topics: women, rural-women, community-organisations, men, gladstone-4680
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Community Council of Australia chairperson Tim Costello says Australia is one of the richest nations, but we seem to have become less compassionate.
Topics: community-and-society, charities, women, australia