Is it appropriate that a Playboy centrefold from 1972 is still being used as a standard test image in image processing circles?
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It is time to breathe new life into South Africa’s feminist movement to seriously combat the perpetuation of patriarchy.
Unlike most images and text that appear public spaces, this graffiti is intended for the eyes of the same sex.
The intense spotlight on one female baseball star might lead some to believe that she’s the first and only one. She’s not.
By pre-school children are already thinking about the career they will have when they grow up, and ruling out jobs that do not fit with their gender. We need to get in early to get rid of stereotypes.
Now that women will make up 40% of High Court judges come June 2015, is gender now irrelevant? Hardly. Women have made up slightly less than 10% of all High Court judges in the court’s history.
Warmer temperatures can throw off the gender balance in some species. But some fish can adjust their offspring’s gender to compensate, but only if temperatures don’t rise too high.
Men might believe that women don’t have what it takes to be serious sports fans but new research into female AFL fans proves them wrong. Some women are footy converts, some have it in the blood – and some were born to it.
Temporary migrating couples from Indonesia face rapid and vast shifts in gender roles in their relationships.
The glass ceiling is as present as ever, with women increasingly getting boxed into certain roles.
Schools need to do more to protect both girls and boys from society’s gender stereotyping.
A new report by the OECD on achievement gaps between boys and girls ignores much previous research on gender.
Peta Credlin is in the classic “double bind” of all women in power: if they take charge, they transgress the gendered expectations that “female qualities” are best suited to a supporting role.
Men of all demographics seem to be wearing shorter and shorter hem lines. To what can we attribute this change?
The “new politics” of 21st-century Australia is much clearer after the extraordinary result in the Queensland election on January 31. Australia’s new politics consists of three elements that they will…
As a group led by Conservative MP Fiona Bruce attempts to clarify the law on abortions based on a foetus’s gender, there have been many assertions that a change would play no useful role in ending gender…
A friend of mine calls me professor of genius studies. It’s a sort of slip of the tongue, as I teach in gender studies, but it‘s also funny because everyone knows that genius is not associated with gender…
Despite significant gains in gender equity over the last few decades, a bias still reigns in one area of medicine. The lack of female representation in both preclinical studies and clinical trials has…
Forget about the Presidential State of the Union address. If you want to understand American values, you need to watch the annual Super Bowl advertisements. This year 114 million people watched the ads…
If women can kiss women and still be straight, what about men? Some scholars have argued that female sexual desires tend to be fluid and receptive, while men’s desires – regardless of whether men are gay…
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