Gender

The annual Stress and Wellbeing in Australia survey 2014, conducted by the Australian Psychological Society (APS), found that, for the first time, men have significantly higher levels of wellbeing than women. The survey, which provides a yearly snapshot of the overall wellbeing of Australians, suggests that 2014 was a tougher year for women. Family and […]

The ABC has defended its decision to publish controversial tweets about Catherine McGregor live on air on its Q & A program last night.

Women are turning their back on a political career and other leadership roles out of fear they won't be treated fairly.

Three out of four Australian employers haven't taken steps to ensure they pay women and men fairly, new research shows.

Australia's national airline and the country's biggest-selling magazine have revealed the winners of a joint $150,000 scholarship fund.

Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs, Julie Bishop, has been voted Australia's most powerful woman in the first ever Women's Weekly power list.

The medical study tracked more than 230,000 patients who were identified with acute myocardial infarction (AMI), aged between 30 and 54 years, for nearly a decade from 2001. The results indicated that while male rates of hospitalisation from heart attacks were higher women were often admitted for longer, had higher comorbidities and recorded higher mortality […]

A new report from the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) shows that the death rate for males is 1.5 times as high as the rate for females.

A national report reveals men now agree women do it tougher in the corporate world.

The research, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, showed that women, on average, are better than the opposite sex at episodic memory (the memory of autobiographical events). Agneta Herlitz, the co-author of the study and a psychologist at the Karolinska Institute in Sweden, and her colleagues surveyed 30,000 individuals across 13 European countries. The […]