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An Australian study of anti-feminist attitudes shows up to 30% of boys surveyed expressed agreement with various forms of violent extremism.
Oluwole faced a double challenge: a woman in philosophy and an African, confronting both sexism and Eurocentric bias.
As long as women continue to write, read and reimagine the world, novel reading will remain a vital site of feminist resistance and possibility.
New research examines the barriers faced by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women at work – and what they’re doing to challenge them.
The effect of women board members on patent activity hinges on whether the company is meeting performance targets.
The current debate over gender relations may feel new when driven by trends like “decentering men,” but it is a consistent historical response to long-standing structural inequities.
Miss Kate Cocks, the real-life first policewoman in South Australia, is the star of Lainie Anderson’s historical crime novels – with a Phryne-Fisher-like offsider.
These ten change-makers, including Jessie Street and Charles Perkins, are just some of the key Australians who prodded the country to question its thinking on race.
Although she’s the world’s reigning pop star, attitudes toward Swift are split markedly along both partisan and gender lines.
Despite increased public attention to sexual violence following #MeToo, Canadian news media continue to report in ways that are often harmful.
At times of economic anxiety, ‘traditional’ gender roles often resurge – part of the appeal for men looking for brides abroad.
The pop icon’s new album marks a growing debate about the social tensions between feminism and rising conservatism.
Day of the Dead celebrations changed during COVID, shaped by anxieties about the ‘shadow pandemic’ of gender violence.
Tia Billinger’s viral stunt shows us the price women pay for power and influence.
Iranian authorities brutally suppressed the Woman, Life, Freedom protests, but women in Iran and the diaspora are continuing the fight in small but meaningful ways.
In Saudi Arabia, smartphones offer women new avenues of empowerment, even as they remain tools of surveillance in a society where gender inequality persists.
In 1975, Laura Mulvey wrote an essay that reshaped feminist film theory. Its ideas still echo today, in every slow-mo entrance and lingering camera shot.
The artist’s 1942 painting ‘Birthday’ will be on view at the Philadelphia Museum of Art’s upcoming ‘Dreamworld: Surrealism at 100’ exhibition.
New analysis of young Australians in 2010 and again in 2024 show women have become more supportive of stereotypical gender roles. Here’s what might be behind it.
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