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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.
Football coach Sarina Wiegman training the Netherlands team at the 2019 Women’s World Cup in France.
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Female coaches experience very different environments to male coaches and have been shaped in very different ways.
Audience members listen to Afghan parliamentarian Fawzia Koofi speak in 2014. Women’s access to politics increased greatly after the Taliban’s 2001 ouster.
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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.
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Women who lose their jobs hold out longer for new jobs with fewer hours and shorter commutes.
Three women dressed in Middle-Age period garb as alewives.
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Today, beer is marketed to men and the industry is run by men. It wasn’t always that way.
Health workers collect data from a man before taking samples during Kenya’s COVID-19 mass testing exercise.
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The availability of data by sex and gender is important for national responses when it comes to prevention, treatment and control.
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Experts reviewed the literature on climate change and gender in developing countries, and found many unhelpful, outdated assumptions are still kicking around.
Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
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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.
Woman are more likely to identify with a religion than men.
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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.
Engraving of Loreta Janeta Velazquez, a Cuban-born woman who fought in the American civil war as Lieutenant Harry T. Buford.
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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.
A woman from one of the Mosuo farming communities in southwest China. The Mosuo were participants in a groundbreaking study examining gender-based health disparities.
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Living in societies with gender bias can harm women’s health.
How androgynous are you?
Thomas Piercy, University of Cambridge.
While there are small differences between male and female brains, most of us have a mix of both.
Seorang pegawai perempuan mengenakan masker saat bekerja di Dinas Informasi Komunikasi dan Statistik Riau di Kota Pekanbaru.
A woman office worker wearing mask while working in Riau Department of Information Communication and Statistics in Pekanbaru City.
Female office workers have faced a growing burden during the pandemic.
Growing poverty and unemployment have seen shacklands mushroom in post-apartheid South Africa.
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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.
Despite their high level of education, women of color with Ph.D.s say they are still treated differently in their academic fields.
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Three women of color with Ph.D.s weigh in on their experience being in the academic field.
Seventy-four percent of shows and films with an abortion plot line centered on an impregnated white character, including ‘Little Fires Everywhere.’
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Hollywood continues to dramatically exaggerate the medical risks associated with abortion while downplaying barriers to access.
High school athletes, including Terry Miller and Andraya Yearwood, both transgender girls, compete in New Haven, Connecticut, in 2019.
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New legislative proposals want to allow ‘sex testing’ of girl athletes through genital exams and genetic and hormone testing.
Protester holding a transgender flag sign encouraging social distancing at Trans Pride 2020 in London.
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Trying to get help for gender dysphoria is rigorous and stressful for young people and their families, it shouldn’t be this way.
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In Sherlock, domination is something to be revered, rather than challenged.
Keira Bell, one of the claimants in the High Court case, was prescribed puberty blockers at 16.
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So-called “puberty blockers” work by temporarily suppressing the action of a specific hormone in the body.