Kristine Ziwica
Kristine Ziwica is a Melbourne-based columnist who has 20 years' experience working in Australia, the United States and the UK on human rights and gender equality campaigns.
Opinion
Workplace safety
Triumph of the Persisterhood: New laws will make women safer at work
Legislation that passed in federal parliament on Monday is genuinely historic, and it’s thanks to women who refused to take no for an answer.
- by Kristine Ziwica
Latest
The problem with Girl Power? Feminism isn’t meant to be fun
The third wave of feminism came in a glossier package, but that is part of its problem, says Kristine Ziwica.
- by Kristine Ziwica
Opinion
Gender
Fed up with the chore wars, grumpy women are now politically dangerous
The federal government has been warned: the importance of domestic democracy in underpinning gender equality is one issue that most people agree on. Lack of action could be dangerous.
- by Kristine Ziwica
Opinion
Gender equality
The speeches that stopped the nation: why Tame and Higgins inspire optimism
Their addresses at the National Press Club were electric, but will they be transformative? Here’s why I have hope.
- by Kristine Ziwica
Opinion
Epstein fallout
Some say Ghislaine Maxwell is unfairly paying for Epstein’s crimes - I disagree
Maxwell’s conviction is significant and sends a sobering signal to other enablers that they can and will be held accountable.
- by Kristine Ziwica
Opinion
Harassment
Morrison forces women to keep playing ‘whack a mole’
Make no mistake: history will remember this moment as a milestone in Australia’s #MeToo journey – and Scott Morrison will prove to be on the wrong side of that history.
- by Kristine Ziwica
Opinion
Gender equality
Payne’s silence speaks volumes about the Liberal Party
“Is it an impossible job being a minister for women in a Morrison government?” Marise Payne was asked last Monday. Her answer was followed by a very long silence - and a look that said everything.
- by Kristine Ziwica
Opinion
Gender equality
Women have gone from holding ground to losing ground
The pandemic has exposed a backwards slide for Australia's women.
- by Kristine Ziwica
Opinion
Weinstein trial
Weinstein verdict is ultimately an unsatisfactory victory
A jury declined to convict Harvey Weinstein of predatory behaviour - how must the women who testified against him be feeling today.
- by Kristine Ziwica
'It's a matter of holding ground': where to for gender equality in 2020
On the pay gap, sexual harassment and women's economic security (among other issues) 2020 should be a year of action.
- by Kristine Ziwica
How 'domestic democracy' became so popular Reese Witherspoon bought in
A push for more fairness in the division of labor at home has resulted in many best-selling books and a new movement towards fairness.
- by Kristine Ziwica
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