Is it genes, chromosomes, hormones, the immune sytem – or behaviour – that makes men more susceptible to the deadly disease?
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Coronavirus reveals how macho stereotypes like toughness, aggression and control can create harm.
Despite both parents now being at home, the likelihood is that much of the ‘domestic’ work will still land squarely on the shoulders of the women of the house.
Men seem less comfortable celebrating their friendships – to their own detriment.
Government policy must do more to reflect the fact that rape isn’t just something that happens to women and girls.
Men who work in female-dominated fields tend to get more prestige and higher wages.
In the early 20th century, women’s food started being described as ‘dainty,’ meaning fanciful but not filling.
Women in the workplace face discrimination at every level, including in upper management.
How embryos develop, evolution and sexual pleasure all help explain why men have nipples. But ‘man boobs’ are a different story.
The myth that women are superior multitaskers has just been busted. So, let’s divide work in and out of the home so women aren’t left running themselves ragged.
Does having children make the goal of fairly dividing work at home more elusive?
Men are feeling more and more pressure to get rid of their love handles and beer bellies – and heavy promotion of unrealistic appearance standards are to blame.
Dirt blindness is used by some to excuse men for spending a third as much time as women cleaning. A new study shows it’s a myth.
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.
Could mothers be responsible for the gender gap? Or are other factors at play?
And it needs to wholeheartedly attack the foundations of western philosophy.
It’s time to address one of the roots of the problem.
The backlash against the Gillette ad shows how painfully little distance we as a society have covered since the #MeToo movement.
There is a wide problem with the way society talks about gender equality.
Economists have used their monetary methodologies to work out how visiting a therapist affects labour income.
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Professor of Sociology, School of Justice, Queensland University of Technology
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Professor of Sociology, School of Social Sciences, Monash University
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Research Assistant at the Centre for Adult Social Care Research, Cardiff University
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Emeritus Professor, Film and Media Studies in English, Arizona State University
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Professor of Sociology and Founding Director of The Future of Work Lab, Podcast at MissPerceived, The University of Melbourne
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Lecturer, Monash University
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Masculinities Scholar, Cardiff Metropolitan University
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Kristen Barber is a Friend of The Conversation.
Associate Professor of Race, Ethnic and Gender Studies, University of Missouri-Kansas City
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Honorary Research Fellow in the Department of Sociology, Durham University
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Lecturer in Criminology, The University of Melbourne
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Assistant Professor in the School of Social Sciences, University College Dublin
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Assistant Professor, Sociology, MacEwan University
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Head of Education and Human Resources Programs at American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS); Trustee, California Institute of Technology
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Chester D. Tripp Professor of History, Yale University
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Professor of Psychology, University of Cambridge