Why are we drawn to tech toys?
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An expert argues our connection with these figures is longstanding. They are embedded in our myths and help us explore deeper questions about being human.
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We need to know more about what is going on for women in sex – what makes them suffer and what gives them pleasure.
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Stop telling women they can have it all if they just work hard enough.
Serena Williams – wearing her controversial catsuit – returns a shot during the first round of the French Open in May 2018.
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On the front lines were female tennis players who refused to adhere to the club dress codes that banned them.
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Although it has ballooned in recent years, the market for men’s cosmetics isn’t just a modern phenomenon.
Men outnumber women in top-paying academic jobs and university leadership.
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Without affirmative action through gender quotas and targets, we will have another 30 years of glacial progress on gender equity in academia.
Self-knowledge rarely comes packaged in a single coherent narrative. Yet this is the expectation we have of the children in our lives.
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The signs might be there. But parents and clinicians will still wonder if there’s some foolproof way to determine whether their children are actually trans. There isn’t one – and that’s okay.
Anthony Gormley’s Another Place installation has become the latest site of a dispute over gender.
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The UK government is consulting on changing gender recognition laws. Here’s what you need to know.
Astronaut Sunita Williams – not a ‘he’.
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New research shows children’s images of scientists are all too often male.
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It’s unsurprising that such apps are popular. Contraceptives come with a slew of hazards.
Anti-discrimination laws specifically cover gender, but the same is not true for many hate speech statutes in Australia.
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It’s a crime in many states and territories to publicly threaten or incite violence toward someone based on race, religion and sexual orientation. But what about gender?
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Virtual assistants are often assumed to be female – perpetuating gendered assumptions in our imagined future.
Through the 2018 WNBA All-Star game on July 28, viewership was up 38 percent compared to the same point last year.
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Like the WNBA, the NBA went through fits and starts in its early years. Yet despite drawing similar crowds in the 1960s, NBA players earned far bigger paychecks than today’s WNBA stars receive.
South African women march against high levels of gender based violence in the country.
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Gender based violence should not be addressed only once it has happened, by jailing offenders. Prevention is just as important.
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In early Christian texts, God gives birth to Israel and is described as a woman in labor and a mother comforting her children.
Limited by illiteracy and workloads women are less involved in Turkana.
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Turkana women weren’t properly represented in decisions made between the oil company and community.
Conversations about gender and stereotypes can start at home, while playing in the sandpit.
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Rigid gender roles and stereotypes are key drivers of violence against women. So let’s challenge these by starting young.
Vermont Democratic gubernatorial candidate Christine Hallquist, holding clipboard, a transgender woman, during her election night party in Burlington, Vt., Tuesday, Aug. 14, 2018.
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Christine Hallquist this week became the first trans person to win a major party’s gubernatorial nomination. The percentage of trans adults has doubled since 2008. What’s responsible for that change?
There are now many gender categorizations, from the traditional ‘masculine’ and ‘feminine’ to ‘gender fluid’ and ‘undifferentiatied.’ Health researchers can work with these to gain a more accurate understanding of disease susceptibilities.
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Bigender, gender fluid, cisgender? Emerging gender categorizations are important – for your health.
LGBTQ+ scientists feel like they have to come out over and over again.
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In many ways, science can be as much about the people doing it as the science itself. A new online initiative is addressing the invisibility of LGBTQ+ people in science.