While blatant discrimination is easy to condemn because of how obvious it is, there are subtler, more insidious forms that also need to be rooted out.
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While women in poverty are more likely to experience sexual harassment and domestic abuse than higher-income women, people assume it is less distressing for them.
People might go to the movies to escape reality. Yet Barbie and Ariel choose to live in the world their audiences inhabit − and, in doing so, decide to die.
We’ve put together a mini-series on birth and early motherhood, an area many of our readers felt they wanted more evidence-based information on.
Understanding our menstrual cycle and taking a proactive approach to our periods is vital to improving sports performance.
With dads being the primary earners in many heterosexual households, it was often the mother who gave up work to manage extra work at home during the pandemic. But what about heterosexual households where the mother was the primary earner?
Tracking the many physical and emotional symptoms of menopause with a website, app or diary can help women better monitor their health.
Rural women in Nigeria circumvent patriarchy to make decisions on their healthcare.
Women have fewer orgasms than men. But this gap is cultural, not biological. Closing it is possible, both on a societal and personal level.
The Barbie movie has caused a media storm, even before the photo of the pink-clad Canadian PM and his son circulated on social media. Much of the conversation has zoned in on men and masculinity.
The Taliban’s two years ruling Afghanistan have taught us ordinary human rights initiatives are insufficient to address gender apartheid. We need resolute collective international action.
Examining the understandings of what ‘toxic femininity’ means to people can reveal insights about gender, power and the impact of language on health.
African teams take the football world cup by storm.
Being a mom can be heartbreaking, empowering, scary, fulfilling and everything in between.
Police matrons in the 1800s opened the door for women to join the police force, yet most of us have never heard of them.
To counter stereotypes and prejudices of women at work, we need to take a fresh look at leadership and encourage career-boosting mandates.
Barbie has long functioned as a proxy onto which cultural aspirations and anxieties about womanhood are projected.
The history of the goldfields too often focuses on men – but, as new Aussie TV series Gold Diggers gets right, the settlements were filled with women.
New research shows that frequent posters appear needy, which pushes up against the expectation that ‘real men’ be stoic and self-sufficient.
Tara Calaby’s novel peeps into the interior lives of women in a 19th-century asylum and uses her historical imagination to generate new knowledge.
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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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Dean, John Molson School of Business, Concordia University
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Cadre en exercice, John Molson School of Business, Concordia University
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Adjunct Professor, Curtin Law School and Curtin Business School, Curtin University
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Professor of History, President, Australian Historical Association, Macquarie University
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Research Associate, Public Policy Institute, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau
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Canada Research Chair in Inequality and Gender, Western University
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Professor of Communication Studies, Colorado State University
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Associate Professor, Bankwest Curtin Economics Centre, Curtin University
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Professor of Law, University of York
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Reader in Gender Studies, Liverpool John Moores University
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Professor in Criminal Law, Durham University
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Professor of Politics and Policy, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau
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Ph.D. Candidate, University of Arizona
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Professor of Sociology, The Open University