Missing out on sex education puts women with disabilities in danger. "It can mean that people experience violence and they don't necessarily recognise it as such because they've not had any information provided to them about what is good touch, what is bad touch." says Meredith Lea, senior policy officer at People with Disability Australia.

They have been an endangered species for an inordinate period of time, but predictions of their demise are proving somewhat premature. After years of decline, men are finally getting back into primary teaching — lured by family-friendly hours, good salaries and the satisfaction of making a difference.

"Girl's Eyes was written out of frustration for the way that subtle sexism affects young women, and older women, and every woman," Australian musician Gabbi Bolt said. "It turned into a bit of an anthem for consent, violence and combatting these issues." Ms Bolt put a call out on social media for women to help her record the song and film an accompanying music video. Fifty five women, aged seven-upwards from central-western New South Wales turned up to the recording session and sung the backing vocals.

Since launching in 2014, @byefelipe has received more than 4,000 submissions from around the world — including Australia — and amassed more than 420,000 followers. "The reactions I've gotten from a lot of women is them saying, 'Thank you for creating this and for giving women a voice'," Ms Tweten said. "Because a lot of the time women said, 'I didn't know that other women went through this, I thought that I was the only one'. "So it's kind of a sense of community and just understanding."

Leading Aircraftwoman Tahlea Fletcher-Mathews lets out an audible groan. She's just been asked the dreaded question — what's it like to be a woman in the Defence Force? "I'm pretty sick of it," she quipped. "It's not what you are, the job is what it is. Just because I'm a female doesn't mean I should be asked, 'do you enjoy it because you're a female'?"

Seven's head of cricket, David Barham, said the signing of Mitchell, who has previously been a part of the ABC radio's Test coverage, has nothing to do with gender or agendas. "She's a gun commentator," he said. "1983 was the last time there was a female voice in Test cricket in Australia on free to air TV, 35 years ago. It doesn't seem right to me. It's appropriate and long overdue, with cricket being a sport that has done so much for women."

"A lot of playgroups have mums and stuff that are there where dads can't relax or really vent and get things off their chest," one father said. "Whereas when it's here, it's all male so I think it's a good format and a good place for dads to come and just generally chew the fat and talk about stuff. It's good to bounce things that you're going through off other dads because we're alone in what we're doing, and it's good to get that bit of help and to know that you are doing OK."

Before Title IX, 90 per cent of coaches across women's teams were female, that's now down to 40 per cent as, there too, male coaches have become interested in leading better-organised and better-resourced women's teams. There are 2,934 accredited football coaches in Australia. Just 137 of them women. FFA have implemented several measures to address that, including establishing a 'female coach mentoring program' a few years ago.

Historians have traced the concept of "toxic masculinity" in the Western world back to the Victorian era, particularly in public schools. Historian Josephine Jobbins writes that a prevailing idea of masculinity — unemotional, strong, sexually dominant and violent — should not be considered a modern phenomenon. "Between 1860 and 1880, games-playing was made compulsory in English public schools, where boys could demonstrate their physicality, and thus manliness, from an early age," Jobbins writes. "In addition, manliness combined with religion in the phenomenon of muscular Christianity, commonly found in the writings of authors such as Charles Kingsley and Thomas Hughes. "Physical rigour was needed for men to be fit enough to fight and defend the British Empire."

Muslims in Australia may have a civil divorce, but if they do not also obtain a religious divorce, they are considered still married in Islamic law — and in the eyes of their community. Getting an Islamic divorce, however, can be a difficult and protracted process, especially for women, who face stricter requirements for initiating divorce than men, depending on the laws of their cultural community.

A new interactive map that allows women and girls to report incidences of harassment is being rolled out across Sydney today. The "Free to Be" map is aimed at 15 to 25-year-olds and allows them to drop a "good" pin on locations in the city where they feel safe and a "bad" pin on spots where they feel uncomfortable or unsafe. The tool is the initiative of the NGO Plan International Australia, which commissioned a survey of more than 400 young women ahead of the launch. "We've found 90 per cent of girls in Sydney are feeling unsafe being in their city at night," said Plan's head of advocacy, Hayley Cull. "That's an extraordinary statistic."