Front row: Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez (C), Chilean Environment Minister and COP25 President Carolina Schmidt (3-L), UN General-Secretary Antonio Guterres (2-R), Argentine President Mauricio Macri (L), Spanish Minister for Ecological Transition Teresa Ribera (2-L) and Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Patricia Espinosa (R) pose with other world leaders for a photo during the opening ceremony of the UN Climate Change Conference COP25 in Madrid, Spain.
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COP25 has come and gone, another missed opportunity to use women’s knowledge to mitigate climate change.
About 12% of transgender Americans have experienced homelessness in the last year.
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Transgender people experience high rates of discrimination in housing and shelter services.
Actress Olivia Wilde plays reporter Kathy Scruggs in ‘Richard Jewell.’
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The persistence of this trope might say something about the barriers women in media continue to face.
To make the most of telescopes like the Square Kilometre Array, we will need the talents of people from across the full spectrum of society.
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A determined approach to improving diversity will also lead to better science.
A Zulu household, from an 1895 book called The Colony of Natal: An Official Illustrated Handbook and Railway Guide.
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A new history book shows how entanglements of race, gender, class and sexuality in South Africa flow from the moral contradictions of the settler colonial state.
Two female models face off in a production of The Magic Flute at Texas A&M University. Above, the Queen of the Night is up to no good, while the passive Pamina awaits her rescuer.
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Princess movies and opera alike reveal the limited number of models available to women. “Le Dernier Sorcier”, composed by Pauline Viardot in 1869, shows that a much richer world is possible.
Many boys are taught they shouldn’t do ‘girl things’ like ballet.
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Mattel created a new line of dolls because of research suggesting kids don’t want toys ‘dictated by gender norms’ – but supplanting those norms will take a lot more than that.
In a recent interview, was Emma Watson embarrassed to admit she was single?
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Attitudes toward single women have repeatedly shifted – and part of that attitude shift is reflected in the names given to unwed women.
Boris Johnson and Plymouth parliamentary candidate, Rebecca Smith in front of a statue of Nancy Astor.
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It isn’t just politicians: experts, business representatives, even academics quoted in the media are more likely to be male.
Too many informal carers have to choose between giving their older mum or dad the care they need and dropping out of the workforce.
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A new system of carers’ leave would allow middle-aged Australians to care for their ageing parents while staying in the workforce.
The identity of the joke-teller matters more than you might think.
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A new study highlights the importance of the ‘intergroup sensitivity effect’ in comedy, which gives people license to tell certain jokes, but not others.
Québec politician Catherine Dorion has been criticized for wearing informal attire in the provincial legislative chamber.
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Québec Solidaire politician Catherine Dorion sparked controversy with her garb in the provincial legislature but this issue has caused uproars in parliaments around the world.
Products like backpacks, beer and Q-tips are marketed in a gender-specific way.
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The sale of women’s backpacks is up by more than 20 per cent in the past year: but why can’t we just call it a backpack? Why does it have to be a ‘lady backpack?’
A satirical photograph from 1901, where men’s and women’s dress and jobs are switched.
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For most of the Victorian era, people thought it was normal for men and women to be treated differently, and judged by different standards.
Activists block the street outside the U.S. Supreme Court as it hears arguments in major LGBT rights cases.
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The U.S. Supreme Court will rule on how the Civil Rights Act applies to LGBT people. A business law scholar explains why it could be one of the most consequential discrimination cases in decades.
Women have to push through barriers to access higher education.
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Women face a number of socio-economic challenges that make it harder for them to access higher education.
In Canada, female doctors have 31 per cent higher odds of suicidal ideation than their male colleagues, according to a 2018 Canadian Medical Association survey.
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Lack of systemic support for women physicians may help explain why it is hard to find a family doctor in Canada.
Food didn’t become gendered until the late 19th century.
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In the early 20th century, women’s food started being described as ‘dainty,’ meaning fanciful but not filling.
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Our research into drag cultures and performances found that despite the common idea of two schools of drag, it is much more diverse.
Women in upper management are discriminated against by all employees, not just men.
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Women in the workplace face discrimination at every level, including in upper management.