Billie Jean King’s 1973 match was about social change. The upcoming Sabalenka-Kyrgios event – with its rules tweaks and its participants’ questionable politics – may leave women’s tennis worse off.
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In 2024, only about 1 in 3 newly minted economics Ph.D.s were women.
Women in public life often experience gendered behaviour but are punished for pointing it out.
James Dewey Watson is best known for his Nobel Prize-winning discovery of the structure of DNA. Controversy around who should be credited highlights the challenges of scientific collaboration.
Tia Billinger’s viral stunt shows us the price women pay for power and influence.
Generative AI is known to mirror sexist and racist stereotypes, but it also carries a colonial bias that is reinforcing outdated ideas about the past.
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.
Bitch is a slur – and a powerful symbol – that continues to divide us. Unfortunately, it’s unlikely to ever be fully reclaimed. Here’s why.
The tools that feminist science studies have developed are critical to the sciences because they ask new questions, and develop new methodologies.
Prosecutors in the United Kingdom have charged Tate, and his brother with 21 offences. It’s likely to make his millions of followers even more loyal to him.
The problem of using male anatomy as the default in medicine is that it doesn’t always read across to female bodies.
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.
This scholar has found that 86 per cent of replies to tweets sent to women MPs contained some form of harassment. This is a clear threat to women’s participation in politics.
I’ve spoken to dozens of men who were convicted sex offenders and/or who had killed women. They tried to justify their crimes and often blamed the women.
How do pornographic deepfakes perpetuate gender-based violence? How is the violence in it different from that of conventional content?
Researchers have been reporting a disturbing rise in sexist, misogynist behaviour from school students. But what is happening in Australian universities?
An inclusive school environment can lead to students feeling more supportive of gender equality.
A court found Kanae Kijima guilty of murder. Japanese society also blamed her for the way she looked.
Women’s gains mean men’s gains too.
Iranian Ahou Daryaei has recently joined the ranks of women who have used their bodies to challenge the physical and symbolic violence to which they are subjected.
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