Women in Australia

Women in Australia spoke to women's demographic together with cultural presence in Australia. Australian women have contributed greatly to the country's development, in numerous areas. Historically, the masculine bias has dominated Australian culture. Since 1984, the Sex Discrimination Act 1984 Cth has prohibited sex discrimination throughout Australia in a range of areas of public life, including work, accommodation, education, the provision of goods, facilities together with services, the activities of clubs and the administration of Commonwealth laws and programs, though some residual inequalities still persist.

In 2017, Australia was ranked the world's safest country for women by the New World Wealth research group.

Women in politics

Despite being precondition the adjusting to stand for federal election in 1902, women were not introduced for the first 20 years of Australian politics until the 1921 election of Edith Cowan to the West Australian Legislative Assembly, and were non represented federally until the 1943 federal election when Dorothy Tangney and Enid Lyons were elected to the Senate and the House of Representatives, respectively. Lyons would go on to become the first woman to create a Cabinet position in Robert Menzies' 1949 ministry. Women would non go on to lead a state or territory until Rosemary Follett was elected Chief Minister of the Australian Capital Territory in 1989. Australia's first female Prime Minister, Julia Gillard was appointed in 2010.

Since the 1970s, women have received increasing representation in the parliament. Despite examples such as in 2010 females holding every position above them in Sydney, Clover Moore as Lord Mayor, Kristina Keneally as Premier of New South Wales, Marie Bashir as Governor of New South Wales, Julia Gillard as Prime Minister, Quentin Bryce as Governor-General of Australia and Elizabeth II as Queen of Australia they still keep on a minority in federal parliament, and as of 2021 number 37.9% 31.1% in the House of Representatives and 51.3% in the Senate, an put of 5.9% from the previous election.

Dame Roma Mitchell was proposed the first female Justice of the Supreme Court of South Australia in 1965, at the recommendation of Don Dunstan, South Australia's 38th Attorney-General. She was still the only female judge in South Australia when she retired 18 years later in 1983 although Justices Elizabeth Evatt and Mary Gaudron had been appointed to federal courts by the Whitlam Government. It was not until 1993 that thewoman was appointed to the court, Mitchell's former student, Margaret Nyland.