Caitlin McGrane is the Project Lead—Enhancing Online Safety for Women at Gender Equity Victoria. Here, she tells us about CyberSmart Women, a guide commissioned by the Victorian Women’s Trust and produced by Gender Equity Victoria to inform women of their legal options in response to online harassment.
15th July, 21 Read more
"Starting a podcast has become the butt of jokes, a silly phase, like tazos or the planking challenge. But podcasts can also be powerful and ground breaking."
27th May, 20 Read more
Kickass Women: Slaying the Tech World brought together innovative female leaders from the tech and business world as they shared their triumphs, challenges and the lessons learnt along the way.
4th October, 18 Read more
Tuesday 6 February is Safer Internet Day! Our Research & Advocacy officer Casimira Melican writes about older Australians online.
5th February, 18 Read more
Knowledge about digital safety has to be made explicit, even for web-savvy teenagers and young people. Our Research & Advocacy officer Casimira Melican has more.
5th February, 18 Read more
Navigating digital spaces as a woman can be a real challenge. Casimira Melican has tips on how to make your time online safer.
5th February, 18 Read more
Leena van Deventer talks about life after workplace diversity. Teaching girls to code is all well and good, but what comes happens after that? As a game developer, educator and author Leena understands all to well what it means to be out numbered in the workplace. And as she says, 'the struggle doesn't end with people getting hired'. If we really want diversity through and through — we need to start at the top.
3rd May, 17 Read more
Mon 7 Nov We all know how rough it can be sometimes to exist as women in online spaces. But if you’re a woman online who’s also actively confronting bigotry in 2016, there's a good chance you’ll need to brace yourself for a truck load of hatred from an onslaught of idiots. Celeste Liddle (unionist, writer, creator of blog ‘Rantings of an Aboriginal Feminist’), Clementine Ford (author of ‘Fight Like a Girl’, Journalist, Activist), Mariam Veiszadeh (lawyer, anti-bigotry advocate, founder of anti-islamaphobia register),Van Badham (playwright, author, columnist, unionist) and Stephanie Bendixson (writer and...
16th November, 16 Read more