Australian women are earning nearly $26,000 less than their male colleagues as efforts to close the gender pay gap stall. The latest data released by the Workplace Gender Equality Agency shows the pay gap remains stuck at 22.8 per cent.

Promoters of the Battle of Bendigo boxing show have replaced ring card women with men, after coming under fire from local councillors and women’s advocate groups.

New Zealand's minister for women has cycled herself to a birthing unit as she prepares to have her first child. Green Party politician Julie Anne Genter posted a picture on Instagram saying she had arrived at Auckland City hospital to be induced – and had traveled by bicycle. "Beautiful Sunday morning for a bike ride, to the hospital, for an induction to finally have this baby. This is it, wish us luck!"