'Space XX' Book Launch with Dr Elise Stephenson

Space XX As countries and powerful companies compete in a new space race, humanity’s future is being decided right now – and women are being left out.

Outer space, once imagined as a global commons of cooperation and discovery, is increasingly seen as a ‘warfighting domain’. Privatisation and patriarchy are concentrating wealth and power among a broligarchy of entrepreneurs looking to the stars to manifest their earthly destiny.

Elise Stephenson led world-first research into gender in the space sector across more than 80 countries. In Space XX, she talks to almost 1000 pioneering women, men, trans and non-binary people – from Australia’s first female astronaut to its Space Agent One, from the US Space Force to NASA – uncovering a story of inequality, exclusion and denigration of women in STEM. She also charts a better way forward: practical, evidence-based ideas for a world that allows all humanity to flourish, informed…