Tag: gender equality

Alan Fitzpatrick

Mar 2019

Why we need more women’s voices in the media

Research from the Women’s Leadership Institute of Australia, which analysed more than 6,000 articles across six major Australian newsprint publications, found that just 21 per cent of sources quoted were female, with women accounting for 13 per cent of sources in business articles, 14 per cent in finance and 20 per cent in politics.

Dec 2016

The rising tide of gender equality

Last month, I attended Breakthrough, a two-day conference held by the Victorian Women’s Trust exploring issues of gender equality. This was the largest gender equality conference in Australia’s history with more than 100 speakers, and it delivered big ideas, leading thinkers and passionate change-makers, as promised.