Gender Equality

There are biological and psychological reasons behind why women experience more disrupted sleep than men, but experts say the mental load is another powerful yet less obvious contributor. 

The South Australian ombudsman calls for changes to medical monitoring at the Adelaide Women's Prison after a female prisoner was denied a medical abortion, which the health minister says is unacceptable.

A new platform, dubbed Justice For Her, is centred on making small, actionable pledges to help people overcome the overwhelming statistics on gendered violence, which often lead to inaction.

For the first time, more men than women are "marrying up" the education ladder, toppling a millennia-old tradition, an exclusive ABC analysis has revealed.

It turns out generation Z has some of the strongest traditional beliefs about gender roles. The revival of what many see as outdated gender norms is being attributed to "manosphere" content on social media.

More views by Liberal Party candidate and evangelical Christian Carston Woodhouse emerge with the Adelaide man saying Islam is "poisonous and wrong" and the "trans agenda is insanity". Warning: This story contains content some readers might find distressing. 

After 30 years of "patchy progress", women in agriculture are striving for more recognition and understanding of their crucial role on the land.

Is your employer among the those with the largest or smallest gender pay gaps? More than 5.9 million workers from over 10,000 employers can now see the data for themselves.

While research has found mothers do more in all four stages of cognitive labour, there was one stage where men were more active than others.

Australia's second statue of Edith Cowan is unveiled in her home town, Geraldton, 420 kilometres north of Perth.

The women's team from Kyneton's 15-month public and bitter saga suggests it is the canary in the coal mine of a widespread issue for women's players across the country.

A woman's solo hike through regional Victoria took a disturbing turn near Daylesford, raising questions about safety and police responses.

Nordic Combined is the only sport at any Olympic Games — summer and winter — that does not have an event for women. It's an omission that is putting the entire future of the sport at risk.

The first standalone national plan to tackle domestic violence against First Nations women and children was "hard fought for by Aboriginal women", an advocate says.

Here is a summary of the results from ABC Sport's inaugural Elite Athletes in Australian Women's Sport Survey, in partnership with Deakin University. 

Low pay, discrimination, disordered eating, sexism and online abuse are just a few of the prevalent issues ABC's Elite Athletes in Women's Sport Survey has revealed, despite recent progress in women's sport.   

Boasting thousands of years of history and a World Heritage listing, Okinoshima is Japan's very own treasure island. It's also completely off limits to women.

A new eSafety advisory warns Australians about technology-facilitated abuse and provides advice on how to protect themselves from it.

A Queensland trans man says healthcare workers did not fully understand his needs when he sought fertility treatment. 

Modern technology is allowing girls to choose their own partners but some remain vulnerable to child marriage to escape hardship.