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If we are to transform the culture of Canadian political institutions, we must take immediate, deliberate and intentional action by engaging more women, BIPOC and marginalized people.
There are concerns that the longer girls spend out of school, the more they are at risk of dropping out.
Across 29 countries, there are wide disparities between how women feel about going out alone and how men feel.
We’ve developed a four-point plan to build back better.
We spoke to a number of young LGBTIQA+ people from all over Australia and from a variety of cultural backgrounds about their experiences during the pandemic.
Female coaches experience very different environments to male coaches and have been shaped in very different ways.
Afghan women interviewed about current talks between the government and the Taliban say, ‘There is no going back.’ Taliban fundamentalist rule in the 1990s forced women into poverty and subservience.
Women who lose their jobs hold out longer for new jobs with fewer hours and shorter commutes.
Today, beer is marketed to men and the industry is run by men. It wasn’t always that way.
The availability of data by sex and gender is important for national responses when it comes to prevention, treatment and control.
Experts reviewed the literature on climate change and gender in developing countries, and found many unhelpful, outdated assumptions are still kicking around.
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala’s appointment as the first woman and the first African director general of the World Trade Organisation is a win for women globally.
Younger and older American men tend to identify more with being religious ‘nones’ than women of the same age, but between 35 and 45 the rates merge. A data and religion expert probes why.
Although the terminology we now use to describe gender would have been alien in the 18th and early 19th centuries, the concepts were understood by many.
Living in societies with gender bias can harm women’s health.
While there are small differences between male and female brains, most of us have a mix of both.
Female office workers have faced a growing burden during the pandemic.
The country still has a way to go in addressing the challenges of social inequity. But there has been some progress in every sphere of government.
Three women of color with Ph.D.s weigh in on their experience being in the academic field.
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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, Podcast at MissPerceived, The University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor in Criminology, The University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor/Reader in Gender and Advertising Psychology, Anglia Ruskin University
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Senior Lecturer, Australian College of Applied Psychology
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