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Articles on Gender diversity
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March 31 is International Transgender Day of Visibility. These 5 books for young readers raise awareness, understanding and acceptance of gender differences in age-appropriate ways.
The closure of the virtual Connect-Clinic means fewer trans and non-binary people will get the vital health-care services they need.
If diversity programs are to truly benefit Australia’s most disadvantaged groups, such as Indigenous people, more acknowledgement must be given to class and ‘intersectionality’.
A new study finds that women improve cyber risk management by bringing new perspectives and skills to the decision-making process of company boards.
While gender-affirming health care is essential to the well-being of trans people, access to quality services varies significantly by geographic region and social context.
From primary care to cancer screening and insurance coverage, gender-diverse people still face many hurdles to getting good medical care.
Voluntary regulation has helped company boards become more diverse but has been more successful in certain countries.
We found 81% of gender-diverse people reported experiencing violence from a coach.
A study of 3,000 companies found a correlation between local ‘social capital’ – which measures such variables as voter turnout and census response rates – and more women on corporate boards.
Those who oppose inclusive teaching content often claim to be representing parents’ views. The evidence from a large national survey of parents shows those claims are very wrong.
Millions of people do not fit neatly into male or female sex designations at birth, and wrong identification can set them up for a lifetime of physical and mental harm.
Two experts on transgender youth share how to talk about gender and support trans youth.
It only takes a few seconds to ask ‘what pronouns do you use’, but knowing and using a person’s correct pronouns can have a big impact on their mental health.
Women, girls and gender-diverse people have unique experiences of housing and housing loss.
Proposed changes to the law will prevent schools from providing appropriate support for transgender and gender-diverse young people. These changes could increase their already high risks of harm.
The language in job postings may be hampering the efforts of organizations in male-dominated industries to create more gender-diverse workforces.
Gender bias in health research is an ongoing issue, but health interventions that target women or men ignore gender-diverse people and create new areas of discrimination.
Sex is not gender but research continues to treat these as the same concept, with potentially damaging consequences for health studies, health policies and health programs.
Some skeptics say that the growing prevalence of transgender teens is a fad. But history and some recent research show it’s not so simple.
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Associate Professor of History, Johns Hopkins University
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Professor in the Faculty of Business & Communication Studies, Mount Royal University
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Honorary Fellow, Melbourne Business School
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Assistant Professor, School of Social Work, York University, Canada
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Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, West Virginia University
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Professor, Women's and Gender Studies, Mount Royal University
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Senior Principal Research Fellow and Group Leader, Transgender Health Research Group, Murdoch Children's Research Institute
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Associate Professor of Sport Management, University of Technology Sydney
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Professor of Finance, University of Oxford
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Senior Lecturer, School of Education, Edith Cowan University
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Predoctoral researcher in Psychology, Universidad del País Vasco / Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea
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Associate Professor, The University of Sydney School of Education and Social Work, University of Sydney
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Honorary Lecturer, Australian National University
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Senior Lecturer (Adjunct), Nutritional neuroscientist, Adelaide University
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Lecturer in Law, La Trobe University