Only by requiring state agencies to budget and plan for gender equity can genuine well-being be achieved for New Zealand’s women.
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Ahead of the 2022 budget, the government is investing in male-dominated apprenticeships rather than women-dominated care roles. Has anything really changed in how we value the work of women?
One of the Morrison government’s biggest challenges in this election campaign is the rise of the so-called ‘teals’.
Women have found innovative and powerful ways to cope during the pandemic – largely because official policy has failed them. That must change.
The lack of reform to childcare - a huge cost-of-living pressure - is the biggest missed opportunity of the week.
There is a crisis in women’s safety but the commitments are piecemeal and some aren’t even new.
Judith Kaplan became the first American bat mitzvah in 1922. The Jewish coming-of-age ceremony has become more popular for girls ever since.
When working from home, women struggled more than men to find time for the sustained effort needed to produce good, publishable research. Lack of thinking time is a problem for all knowledge workers.
One policy expert says we need a royal commission into ‘what the hell is going on’ with the gender pay gap.
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.
There is a pervasive message from fashion, tech and the media that women can change their lives if they could be more confident.
The male-dominated makeup of the industry partners who are meant to lead the commercialisation of research could undermine the work towards gender equity in Australian universities.
Her values of integrity, impartiality, professional ethics, and court decorum make her the ideal person to head the country’s judiciary.
A trailblazing group of women sports reporters were early advocates for women’s sport in the 1930s, particularly during the first Ashes test series against England.
The proportion of women in a discipline influences how rigorous and trustworthy people rate the field overall, as well as whether they categorize a STEM field as a ‘hard’ or ‘soft’ science.
The 2015 FIFA Women’s World Cup ushered in a new age for media coverage of women’s sport. A new survey of fans shows that while many men feel threatened, a growing number are on board.
It feels like history was made in 2021. But it is hard to argue there has been concrete change at Parliament House … yet.
Many scientists stuck at home during university closures dealt with increased domestic responsibilities. But some groups had it worse than others.
LDS leaders still stress that men should ‘preside’ over their families. But in recent years, messages about marriage have stressed more equal partnership.
If colleges want to address systemic racism within their institutions, they can start by crediting female faculty members of color for work that gets overlooked. A group of higher ed researchers explains how.
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