Do boys and girls from diverse cultural settings experience their transitions into adolescence? Their cultural differences don’t make a difference, but their genders do.
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Despite the rise of feminism, strip clubs and other ‘sexual entertainment’ businesses have proliferated in our cities. And women are feeling the harmful impacts of the industry’s presence.
Beginning in the 1990s, all 50 US states and Washington, DC created public sex offender registries. Do they do more to help or hurt?
Doctor Who author Una McCormack has long envisaged a day when a woman was cast as Doctor Who.
By speaking their truths in societies that would rather not know, queer painters, female rappers and other outsider artists are pushing the bounds of gender and sexuality in the developing world.
Most university presidents in the US are still white, male and over the age of 60. But as they retire, is there an opportunity to reshape college leadership and, with it, higher education itself?
The particular brand of masculinity promoted by Africa’s influential male church leaders tends to devalue women, re-inscribe male domination.
The 2017 budget contains initiatives that help alleviate some of the worst aspects of its predecessors. However, it doesn’t radically turn things around for women.
The economic costs of having children are more often shouldered by women, so mothers tend to accumulate less capital over time.
Data for 2014-15 from the Australian Taxation Office shows inequality is growing in a number of areas.
Women’s participation in economics starts off strong but progressively falls through the ranks.
Providing women with credit improves gender inequality.
Female scientists publish more and better research but are promoted less. New research from Mexico exposes gender gap in science there, and across the globe.
Australia is now having a national conversation on domestic violence. Yet the way violence degrades women’s financial status remains in the shadows. Much more needs to be done.
Trade incentives and more inclusive union leadership could improve working conditions in the garment industry – particularly for women.
Donald Trump’s popularity despite his chauvinism is an ugly reminder that economic inequality and gender inequality go hand-in-hand.
Over the next 20 years, one global strategy will help to shape our cities. Here’s what it says about women.
Many research universities have adopted ‘family-friendly’ tenure rules to help women balance family and career. However, men, not women, seem to benefit from having the extra time.
Women’s football was introduced in the Olympics a staggering 96 years after the men’s event – and some sports still struggle with gender inequalities.
It’s easy to get excited about smart city technology – but we need to think through the human consequences.
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RBC Professor in Responsible Organizations and Full Professor, Concordia 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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DSTI/NRF Research Chair in Welfare and Social Development, University of Johannesburg
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Professor of Law, The University of Melbourne
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Pro Vice-Chancellor, Climate, Sustainability and Inequality and Director, Southern Centre for Inequality Studies, University of the Witwatersrand
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Senior Lecturer in Creative Industries and ARC DECRA Fellow, The University of Melbourne
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Senior lecturer, School of Psychology, Deakin University
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Adjunct Professor, Curtin Law School and Curtin Business School, Curtin University
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Chief executive officer, Grattan Institute
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Professor of European Politics and Society, University of Bath
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Associate Professor in Human Geography, University of Oxford
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Associate Professor in Finance, University of Canberra
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Director, XYX Lab, and Professor, Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture, Monash University
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Assistant Professor of Politics and International Relations, University of Nottingham
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Lecturer in Global Development Politics, University of York