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While a record number of women are headed to Congress, a number of conservative measures passed across states. What explains this?
Emile Durkheim helped to lay the foundations of sociological thought and theory. He spoke of our current condition as being influenced by social structures and institutions.
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott is an enduring classic for girls, soon to be a major Hollywood film. Yet many of the book’s themes and morals were imposed by the author’s father.
Anne Summers on #MeToo and women in politics
Anne Summers is concerned about the slow progress in Australia in addressing sexual harassment and assault.
The early suffragists would be rolling in their graves to know that women joining the ranks of parliamentarians barely changed their male colleagues’ outlook and demeanour at all.
The GOP’s handling of sexual assault allegations against prominent GOP figures has led some to conclude that the party does not respect women. But GOP women are sticking with their party.
There are so many opportunities for women in Hollywood these days, as long as they play roles that were originally intended for men.
Though she created her stories more than 200 years ago, Jane Austen’s novels were forerunners of feminism.
Gender studies degrees in Hungary will no longer receive funding at state universities.
The British government is consulting on changes to the Gender Recognition Act, including whether to allow gender self-identification.
Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s funny, sassy, violent script doesn’t make a drama out of the two strong female leads, it normalises them.
Ford works toward dismantling the idea that feminism is harming men. Instead, she proposes that a patriarchal society can be as harmful and destructive for individual men as it can be for women.
Parliament has a problem retaining experienced women – and so does science. Working in STEMM places women in an ideological dilemma that is exhausting to confront, and feels impossible to change.
Social psychologists have been busy documenting the harmful effects that this brand of chivalry has on women. But are they missing something?
Perfectionism-driven social anxiety means young men will also be susceptible to ideological scripting of behaviour on TV.
Once artificial intelligence takes over task-based and calculative jobs, the invisible care work that underpins our offices, marketplaces and institutions could finally become more visible and valued.
Dorrit Black, Grace Cossington Smith and Grace Crowley were some of many talented modernist women artists. But only with the advent of second wave feminism in the 1970s was their work properly acknowledged.
We need to know more about what is going on for women in sex – what makes them suffer and what gives them pleasure.
Fear of a Non-Nuclear Family
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In 1968 the idea of the ideal American family was the father as breadwinner, stay-at-home mom, two kids and a white picket fence. But the women's movement and other forces were beginning to change this – and inspire a conservative backlash that persists to this day.
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Professor in Politics and Journalism, University of Notre Dame Australia
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Associate Professor in Literary Studies, Monash University
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Professor of History, President, Australian Historical Association, Macquarie University
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Professor of Political Science and Chair of the South African Research Initiative in Gender Politics, Stellenbosch University
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Lecturer in Screen and Cultural Studies, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Film and Screen Studies, University of Portsmouth
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