Even though he wasn’t a woman, Bal Gandharva’s vision of the ‘traditional wife’ was given supremacy over every other form of womanhood.
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Today’s tradwives rework the ideals of the early 20th-century German housewives’ movement.
It’s possible to work with and change social norms about suitable work for women.
Children learn what it means to be a woman or a man early on. How they respond to threats to how well they conform to gender stereotypes changes with age.
Canadian and Australian studies are hearing from male teachers who promote gender and social justice while challenging and disrupting patriarchal masculinities in their classrooms.
From viral skincare videos to hyper-muscular influencer bodies online, men are facing increasing societal pressure to look good — just have women have for generations.
One similarity between people who seek to reinforce gender binary and those who seek to expand beyond it is the idea that everyone has a gender.
New analysis of young Australians in 2010 and again in 2024 show women have become more supportive of stereotypical gender roles. Here’s what might be behind it.
Post 9/11, brown and sometimes Black Muslim characters were portrayed as ‘good’ only when aligned with US state power. Muslim filmmakers are trying to change that.
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.
It could take up to three or four months for your eyelashes to grow back to their typical length.
Gender equality is on the rise, so why are wedding proposals still considered a man’s job?
Women – and daughters-in-law in particular – are often seen as a threat to the continuity of the family farm, and tactically excluded from succession plans.
Cell-free DNA prenatal screening, sometimes called ‘the gender test,’ cannot determine gender because gender is more than just genes and genitals.
Women in Makoko, a floating slum in Nigeria, face challenges funding their fish trade. Literacy and financial inclusion programmes can make a difference.
Government departments, civil society groups and the private sector should pool resources and work together in a co-ordinated manner to prevent violent crime.
Female bodies have an advantage in endurance ability that means Paleolithic women likely hunted game, not just gathered plants. The story is written in living and ancient human bodies.
Gendered words can be offensive in certain contexts – it’s all in what’s being signaled, according to a sociolinguist
Inmates who are mothers tend to be accused of being bad parents.
In the Japanese workplace, women face discrimination, restrictive behaviour and appearance codes and a lower glass ceiling than elsewhere. Only a profound cultural shift will change that.
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