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Academia is not immune to gender bias. One way to see this in action is to observe who asks questions during conferences – and men appear to ask more than women.
Rob Porter’s ex-wife Jennifer Willoughby wrote movingly about staying in what she described as an abusive relationship. Her experiences are echoed in studies of abused women across the country.
The gender pay gap at Canadian universities cannot be explained away as the holdover from discrimination of long ago. It’s high time universities valued male and female professors equally.
Changes to the official mandates guiding nonprofits and government agencies might be less significant than they appear.
Women with AIDS were excluded from the US definition of the syndrome until 1993. What’s changed?
Despite a range of laws and policy measures, many gender inequities seem firmly entrenched. One innovative policy measure that could make a difference is basic income.
Intimate partner violence has tremendous negative consequences for women, their families and societies, yet it have not received the political attention it should.
Australia is held back not only socially, but also economically by gender inequality, and it needs to be addressed in the classroom.
We know from every previous wave of feminist activism that some men fear loss of status and power, two things manifest in work and pay.
Recently, many Indonesians have been bombarded with stories about the “pelakor”, a term popularly used to refer to a woman who is perceived as responsible for ruining a couple’s marriage).
Dubbed the ‘female ghetto’, there’s a reason why women are significantly over-represented in call centres.
It will take 217 years for women to achieve equal pay at the current rate.
All the president’s men … where a men-only club dinner went wrong and what lessons there are for charity fundraising.
Female jazz musicians are taking a stand against entrenched sexism within the genre.
Before #MeToo, Brazilian women launched #MyFirstHarrassment and marched for racial equality. Today, this feminist resurgence is tackling health care, plastic surgery, violence and more.
Sexism has long been an unfortunate feature of the workplace, but is male privilege still a problem when the gig economy makes most of our office interactions virtual?
Urban planning is not gender neutral. Women deserve to live in cities that treat them equally, respond to their needs and reduce opportunities of violence.
Companies and governments should do more to prevent ‘revenge porn’ without asking potential victims to send their nude photos to Facebook.
It is time for fundamentalist Christians to examine their own theology and face up to how it has contributed to the abuse of women, intentionally or otherwise.
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