MAMAMIA - On any given night, entrepreneur and One Roof founder Sheree Rubinstein could be cooking for 10 people – at least. “We never know who will turn up. It’s an open-door policy – and that’s how we like it.” Indeed, it’s an outlook that saw the two families come together to live under one roof earlier this year. By choice…

MAMAMIA - Jifeng 'Eileen' Liu. Lametta Fadlallah. Amner 'Amy' al-Hazouri. Tania Trickey. Florrie 'Kory' Reuben. Five Australian women, each killed in the past week. Five Australian women, each killed by violence perpetrated by men…

MAMAMIA - For millions of Afghans, August 15 is more than the date their beloved country collapsed to the treacherous rule of the Taliban. It's the date their freedom and dreams collapsed too. Particularly for women…

MAMAMIA - “Earlier today, I asked one of my patients how their relationship was going,” iconic couples' therapist Esther Perel tells Mamamia from her New York City apartment. “And it started with, ‘He’s making a real effort.’…

MAMAMIA - It was New York Fashion Week, 2016. Indonesian designer Anniesa Hasibuan was the first designer to present a collection where every woman on her runway wore a hijab. It was a moment for ‘modest fashion’. It had arrived in the mainstream…

MAMAMIA - You've got to be able to run fast. That's the overarching lesson I glean from Sydney-based private investigator, Amy Elliott…

MAMAMIA - "You have everything you need inside of you. Just believe in yourself and hold on for the ride because it's going to be a bumpy one." It's the advice that Kiani Mills, 35-year-old single mum of two, would give her 16-year-old self if she had her time again. And the ride was bumpy indeed…

MAMAMIA - We don’t know her name yet. Or the name of her little baby. For now, they are known as the 40-year-old woman and infant child whose bodies were found at an outstation north of Alice Springs on Sunday. With them, was also the body of a 41-year-old man. A firearm was located at the scene and the police are treating the “horrific” incident as domestic violence. But perhaps you didn’t hear about it?…

MAMAMIA - As Yulia Konokhovych flung open the front door of her unassuming 1950s brick veneer in Melbourne’s south-east, I was met with her kind smile. The mid-30s mother of two has her hair gathered into a neat plait. Her top eyelids are each lined with a simple black stroke. “Please, come in,” she implores, a melodic lilt to her accent…

MAMAMIA - It’s them and me; staring each other down from our separate sides of the cubicle. I take a deep breath, give them one final look from top to bottom before cautiously taking a step forward. My palms are clammy. The fear is palpable…

MAMAMIA - As proud Waanyi/Kalkadoon woman Sandra Creamer reflects on the hardships she has faced, there is one memory in particular that hangs heavily on her words. After mustering the courage to leave her violent marriage, she found herself at 33 years old, with four children in tow, and "as poor as a church mouse”…

MAMAMIA - It’s 7am London time when Jess van Nooten and I first speak. Her words are hushed through the phone. Her voice is friendly, but strained. Tired. And then I hear Alba’s cry; the little baby that made headlines, born 11 weeks premature via a surrogate in Ukraine - two days before Russia declared war.

MAMAMIA - I want to ask you a favour. Put aside who you voted for in last weekend's federal election. Just for a minute, please…

MAMAMIA - Flower-adorned bucket hats upturned at the front, 50 cent mixed lolly bags from the local milk bar, diaries with a lock and key, and low-slung cargo pants - the more zips, the better. Yep, the late-90s and early-2000s were a mish-mash of… everything. …

MAMAMIA - Yesterday morning, Aussie solo sailor Lisa Blair, 37, made history. As her yacht sailed in to Albany, WA to jubilant cheers and the sounds of ship horns, she became the fastest person to circumnavigate Antarctica - solo, non-stop and unassisted…

THE AJN - “Women belong in all places where decisions are being made. It shouldn’t be that women are the exception.” Nine months since leading a groundbreaking special investigation into gender inequality and harassment in Jewish organisations, has any progress ensued?

THE AJN - Noting that women who experience uncomplicated births are now sent home as early as six hours after delivery in the public system, Raizel Fogel is one woman who recognised a dire need to provide post-natal support – and she does so from her own pocket.

THE AJN - Mia Freedman – co-founder of media company Mamamia – inspires millions with her women-centric content, podcasts and entrepreneurship. She talks career, media and her connection to her Jewishness.

THE AJN - From a homeless teen to becoming the first Aboriginal person to achieve a PhD in medicine, Professor Lisa Jackson Pulver is driven by a passion to make the world a better place.

“There is no call here for affirmative action – just recognition that Mizrachi’s gender bias (conscious or otherwise) is real, it is dangerous, and it is contemptible.”