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The G20’s Women 20 group agreed that action is needed to stop unpaid care work and forced labour, and improve women’s health and climate leadership.
The major sticking point is Australia’s highly segregated jobs market by gender.
While mothers who earn more may be able to outsource some of the physical work in the household, the mental load is huge – and remains a barrier to gender equality.
Marriage under the age of 18 harms girls’ health, education and gender equality.
Elites have often shaped or manipulated state policies in ways that protect their interests and reinforce inequality.
Achieving gender parity could take more than a century. South Africa and Australia show why context matters – and why there’s no single formula for equality.
The country recently pulled out of the UN’s gender equality committee over its refusal to change the male-only royal succession.
Many RSL branches feel frozen in time: beers, bingo and military banter. Which is why many women veterans don’t feel welcome.
New research highlights that the career outcomes of both women with and without children are negatively impacted by engaging in unpaid labour.
Traditional Jewish ceremonies, like Christian ones, marked a woman’s transition from daughter to wife − going from her parents to her husband. But there are creative ways to reflect gender equality while honoring tradition.
There are still signs of gender inequality in university teaching positions in Canada. Here is an overview.
Science, technology, engineering and maths are still not an equal playing field for all. Here’s what needs to change.
An education sector that responds to the different needs of boys and girls creates equal participation in learning.
The Labor federal government will be the most diverse in history, driven by the influx of women members who outnumber the men in both caucus and cabinet.
TikTok’s viral Hongdae boy videos – while they may be comedic parodies – are drawing attention to broader insidious forms of sexism many South Korean women face.
Mark Carney has restored gender parity in the federal cabinet. But upon closer look, men hold five of the six most powerful positions while only one — foreign affairs — was awarded to a woman, Anita Anand.
The Liberal Party’s idea of equality means treating everyone the same, rather than addressing structures loaded against women. It’s doing the party enormous damage.
Young women drop out of sport and many never return, but there are ways to encourage them to get back into it.
In the first 25 years of the century, Australia elected its first female prime minister and introduced paid parental leave, but how much have things really improved for women?
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