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9 nurses who are all women stand in a row in their scrubs

Australia’s labour market remains highly segregated: UNSW report

15 Nov 2023

Efforts to reduce segregation by gender in Australia’s labour market face persistent resistance, say researchers for the Fair Work Commission.

How women writers helped me find my voice after divorce

20 Oct 2023

When Jane Gleeson-White’s marriage ended two years after her mother died, she lost her voice. Books by women writers like Rachel Cusk, Olivia Laing and Maggie Nelson helped her find it again.

Two female and one male students in a lab

UNSW recognised for gender equity in STEMM

17 Oct 2023

The SAGE Athena Swan Cygnet Award recognises UNSW Sydney’s progress in reducing barriers to gender equity.

The lower half of a woman as she lifts a kettle bell at an outdoor gym

Your strength training program might be sexist

30 Jun 2023

It turns out the official guidelines are – like many other fields in health – largely based on the male body.

2023 Ada Lovelace Medal awarded as women engineers honoured by UNSW

28 Jun 2023

Dr Marlene Kanga AO, Dr Fatemeh Salehi and Dr Olivia Mirza were all recognised at the prestigious UNSW Women in Engineering Awards.

The hard path to gender equity

23 Jun 2023

A recent report showed little progress has been made in achieving gender equity over the past decade. UNSW Professor Claire Annesley identifies five key strategies to keep moving towards a fairer future.

cinematic shot of young teacher leaning against blackboard

90 per cent of teachers can't afford to live where they teach: study

19 May 2023

Research suggests housing affordability is a major issue for teachers and may exacerbate the shortage crisis further.

Julia Gutman with her work Head in the sky, feet on the ground at the Archibald, Wynne and Sulman Prizes 2023 winners announcement

The fine art of storytelling for Archibald winner and UNSW alumna

15 May 2023

Archibald Prize winner Julia Gutman paints portraits whose stories run deep, and are layered with meaning and with textiles, too.

UN CEDAW members Natasha Stott Despoja AO and Corinne Dettmeijer-Vermeulen with report author Dr Janani Shanthosh in Geneva, Switzerland.