The shocking lack of gender balance is not just bad for women. It’s doing the public a major disservice.
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The beautiful game still needs to perform on bigger social issues.
More women are on zero hours contracts but these do not feature in gender pay gap reporting.
The rule of law can take on different meanings depending whom you ask and where you are – but in the US it pretty much means one thing.
The gender pay gap and CEO to worker pay ratio won’t be fixed by corporate governance initiatives alone.
Big data and algorithmic applications could transform how our legal institutions work, but the digital revolution must keep the needs of judges, attorneys and especially citizens at its heart.
Racist behaviour in universities manifests itself in nuanced and covert ways.
An expert explains why a recent plan to include a question about citizenship in the 2020 census is unjust, both for citizens and noncitizens.
How Americans decide who can come into the country and who can stay reflects beliefs about what makes people worthy of opportunity.
Canada is strangely muted in celebrating women’s suffrage. That’s because the politics of remembrance has become a contemporary minefield.
Canadian women are under-represented in politics and are hesitant to run for office for myriad reasons. Here’s what needs to be done, especially at the municipal level, to get more women in office.
We know from every previous wave of feminist activism that some men fear loss of status and power, two things manifest in work and pay.
When it comes to increasing Indigenous Australians’ participation in higher education, we could take a leaf from our neighbour’s book.
Artificial intelligence is likely to reinforce or even amplify gender inequality because the data used to train machines is biased.
Not everyone won the vote in 1918, and not everyone is living their best life now.
It will take 217 years for women to achieve equal pay at the current rate.
The collapse of Carillion shows that the construction sector needs to change. One option would be to include women.
Evolution has shaped gender differences, but we don’t have to be bound to this history. We are not mindless automata, doomed to slavishly oblige our instincts and impulses.
There are huge benefits for trans people – and society – when they change their outward appearance to reflect their gender identity.
Australia was ranked top of the world in terms of the efficiency of our health care system and health outcomes, but only seventh in terms of equity.
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Adjunct Professor, Stout Research Centre, Victoria University of Wellington and Auckland University of Technology, Professor of Political Science, Charles Sturt University
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Professor of African legal pluralism, University of the Western Cape
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Professor of Leadership and Organisation Studies, University of Birmingham
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Professor of Law, University of South Carolina
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Professor of Sociology, University of the Witwatersrand
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Professor of Law, University of Waikato
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Adjunct Associate Professor, Monash University
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Professor of Organisational Behaviour, Brunel University of London
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Co-Director of the ESRC Centre on Digital Futures at Work, University of Sussex Business School, University of Sussex
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PhD Researcher (Conceptual History of Meritocracy), University of Nottingham
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Senior Lecturer, Durham University
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Director, Centre for Sustainable Communities, University of Canberra
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Professor of Philosophy of Education, Stellenbosch University
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Professor in International Social Policy, University of Southampton
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Senior researcher, Centre for Social Change, University of Johannesburg