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After the Christchurch mosque shootings, New Zealand’s prime minister didn’t start a war on terror. She covered her head, cried, paid for funerals and passed gun control. Is it because she’s a woman?
From video games developed where players can “play” at raping women, to advertisements that sexualise women’s bodies, men’s entitlement to women is just a given.
In children’s literature, mothers are rarely more than anonymous homemakers – unless they are wicked queens.
A brutal rape at Pamplona’s 2016 running of the bulls outraged Spain. Then came #MeToo. With ever more Spaniards taking up the feminist mantle, schools – many of which are not coed – lag behind.
Flexible working is seen as a solution to the gender pay gap but cultural norms are getting in the way.
A single solution can’t magically erase gender-based violence in schools, but if we start listening to students, we may hear new stories of masculinity and femininity echoing through school hallways.
Universal low-cost childcare and workplace flexibility will help mothers return to the workplace and are important investments in the Australian workforce.
Gender differences in jobs and attitudes are wider in countries with more equality, but that’s not the end of the story.
The Wife: my research shows that this self-sacrificing form of wifehood is hardly history.
A survey in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, shows the more flexible the roles of men and women in the family, the happier they are.
On the front lines were female tennis players who refused to adhere to the club dress codes that banned them.
Gender essentialists who think “men are from Mars and women are from Venus” are more likely to accept gender discrimination and respond negatively when women seek power.
Men have come to dominate military combat but new evidence suggests this might be more an accident than an inevitability of evolution.
Australia’s convict past and male-dominated sex ratios have long-lasting effects on attitudes, impacting women’s working lives.
During the war, few Americans actually saw the ‘Rosie the Riveter’ poster that’s become a cultural icon.
Women encounter many difficulties in cities that are products of male design and planning. We need to move past the practice of one group shaping our world on behalf of everyone else.
The #MeToo movement has sparked discussions about appropriate sexual behaviour that teachers can build on in sexual education.
It has been predicted we will need 1,627 more classes for primary students nationally before 2025, and to respond to this demand we need to fix the gender imbalance in the teacher workforce.
Even though they weren’t particularly interested in having sex, fear of ridicule and insecurities tugged at many of the young men the author spoke with.
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