Working at home has been far from costless, but many of the costs aren’t counted in the GDP.
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The mental health implications of child marriage on young girls are significant
Little Richard honed his craft as a teenage drag queen. In everything from his hairstyle to his lyrics, we see the influence of gay contemporaries like Esquerita and Billy Wright.
A scholar and mother of a young child who is now working at home explores what’s called the ‘work-family conflict’ – and finds that’s the wrong label for the impossible choices faced by parents.
Women are underrepresented in technology fields, but especially so in cybersecurity. It’s not just a matter of fairness. Women are better than men at key aspects of keeping the internet safe.
Captain Cook’s sailors traded nails for sex, but the history of intimate encounters and their impact on women throughout the Pacific is still largely ignored.
For many women, childcare has been unaffordable. Suddenly it’s free. It’s as if we have finally realised it is an essential service.
Phones sometimes serve as a ‘digital leash’ to check women’s whereabouts - a growing feature of many relationships and conflicts.
Is it genes, chromosomes, hormones, the immune sytem – or behaviour – that makes men more susceptible to the deadly disease?
Despite both parents now being at home, the likelihood is that much of the ‘domestic’ work will still land squarely on the shoulders of the women of the house.
While male and female prisoners at Auschwitz faced the same ultimate fate – torture, forced labor and near-certain death – women sometimes reacted differently to Nazi captivity.
In the past, maintaining physical distance was an important aspect of public life – and clothes played a big role.
Indonesian textbooks represent gender equality better than their South Asian counterparts, but our analysis shows portrayals of women are still biased.
Rapid motorisation has made the Indonesian city of Solo prioritise policies to support motorised vehicles, paying little attention to cycling and marginalising poor women.
When fans place a bet, it motivates them to watch a sport and root for a team they might otherwise have little interest in.
You don’t have to be labelled with a mental illness to seek help.
Recent research explores how women ‘dress defensively’ to avoid the aggression of other women.
Ghana has ambitious policies on gender equity but is struggling to realise them.
Research finds that poor households in rural Indonesia tend to prioritise high-cost schooling options for sons, while sending daughters to under-resourced Islamic schools. Why is this the case?
TERF is not a slur. Instead, we should use words that accurately describe how some feminists are actually anti-trans activists.
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Senior Lecturer, The University of Melbourne
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Jenny Graves is a Friend of The Conversation.
Distinguished Professor of Genetics and Vice Chancellor's Fellow, La Trobe University
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Professor of Sociology and Founding Director of The Future of Work Lab, The University of Melbourne
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Associate professor in Criminology, The University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor in Literary Studies, Monash University
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Professor, Family & Sexual Violence, RMIT University
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Senior Lecturer, Australian College of Applied Psychology
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Associate Professor/Reader in Gender and Advertising Psychology, Anglia Ruskin University
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Full Professor and Associate Vice-President, Research, Mount Saint Vincent University
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Professor of Politics and Policy, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau
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Associate Professor, Design Anthropology, Swinburne University of Technology
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Professor of Sociology, The Open University
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Assistant Professor of Sport Management, Syracuse University
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Associate Professor of History, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
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