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How we inherit masculine and feminine behaviours: a new idea about environment and genes
A stable environment that teaches men to be men and women to be women could be helping to enforce gender across generations.
Are men seen as ‘more American’ than women?
In the first study of the relationship between gender and national identity, the authors wonder if the answer might explain why the country still hasn't had a female vice president or president.
The inequality you can’t change that lasts a lifetime
Inequality of opportunities accounts for roughly 8% of income inequality in Australia.
Google firing of diversity dissenter leaves awkward questions hanging
His anti-PC 'manifesto' might be filled with nonsense, but that doesn't mean James Damore's thoughts have no value, or that he should have been fired.
Radical feminists’ objection to sex work is profoundly un-feminist
The sex industry doesn’t need your admiration, but nor does it deserve your condemnation.
Primary schools are losing more and more male teachers, so how can we retain them?
The continuing decline in the numbers of male primary school teachers suggests more attention needs to be placed on retaining those already in the profession.
Gender quotas can work but it depends on how employees feel about them
The effect of gender quotas on an organisation's performance depends on employee's attitude towards quotas, which in turn depends on the labour market environment.
When it comes to sport, boys ‘play like a girl’
Girls in primary school are just as physically capable as their male classmates, our research shows.
Here’s an important reason the gender pay gap isn’t closing
The weakening of collective rights and employment protections has harmed the relative position of women in ways that have offset gains through changing values and individual rights.
How early career women help to open up the gender pay gap
The focus should be on supporting women to negotiate fairer pay.
In Philippines, climate change and conflict both conspire against rural women
Conflict and poverty further deepen the impacts of climate change, resulting widening income inequality between women and men.
When women are surrogate mothers: Is that work?
As the Canadian Fertility and Andrology Society urges the government to consider "compensation" for surrogacy, we need to talk about the implications of this rhetoric for women.
Domestic violence and Australian churches: why the current data have limitations
Comprehensive, independent Australian data regarding domestic violence within churches is long overdue.
Gender makes a world of difference for safety on public transport
Most women feel unsafe when using public transport. Instead of gender segregation, researchers suggest gender-sensitive design could be a better way to ensure safety for all.
Global hijabista style, from the Afghan burqa to the cover of a fashion magazine
The versatile, controversial piece of clothing has come to symbolise both the oppression of women and their empowerment.
Global series: Talking sex, changing cultures
By speaking their truths in societies that would rather not know, queer painters, female rappers and other outsider artists are pushing the bounds of gender and sexuality in the developing world.
Kenya’s parliament continues to stall on the two-thirds gender rule
The gender-equity rule in Kenya's constitution offers an opportunity to remedy past wrongs. But the country's parliament is dragging its feet in implementing it.
From witches to Victorian mediums: the abuse of levitating women
Tales of levitation tend to belie stark inequalities and various forms of violence (often upon women).
Gayle Newland and the problem of equating ignorance with non-consent
The 'privilege of unknowing' allows onlookers to learn not to see, or otherwise sense, queer difference.
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