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Australia needs to tackle the widespread belief that it’s fair or feasible for people to work long hours without compromising either their health or gender equality.
While Clinton’s popular vote win shows progress toward gender equality, her rival’s nomination of just three women to his Cabinet is a reminder of how much work still needs to be done to overcome bias in management.
Labor’s project of economic transformation hit some harder realities as Paul Keating assumed the top job. And a new push on remaking Australia stirred a brooding reaction of its own.
Separating girls and boys takes away opportunities to learn from one another. It also encourages stereotyping and sexism.
Women are still grossly underrepresented as chairpeople, directors or chief executives of international sporting bodies, to the great detriment of those sports.
For most women, coaching a men’s team is still off-limits, barring them from the opportunity to pursue professional careers as football managers.
Women remain systemically underrepresented at the top levels of Australia’s most powerful institutions – including the media, universities, government, judiciary and corporate sector.
A study in Malawi shows how the participation of local community leaders in policy development can change men’s attitudes to maternal and child health for the better.
Women’s exclusion from legal and political power for much of last century makes Susan Kiefel’s appointment all the more significant.
A proposed budget freeze would hurt everyone, but history shows women take the hardest hit.
Study suggests vaccination and hygiene may help countries that are struggling with gender equality.
The prospect of a Trump presidency does not bode well for women in general and feminism in particular.
India’s economy keeps growing, but women’s rights are going backwards: why?
Girls and women still face implicit and explicit discrimination, and a key to changing that is for more women to take on leadership roles.
A new database that shows the use of gendered words in major Australian newspapers tells us much about whose voices are being heard.
Donald Trump’s popularity despite his chauvinism is an ugly reminder that economic inequality and gender inequality go hand-in-hand.
Too much research focuses on “fixing women”, so let’s hear the male line on what needs to be done.
Over the next 20 years, one global strategy will help to shape our cities. Here’s what it says about women.
The millennium development goals were laudable but the approach to achieving them was flawed. An integrated, bottom-up approach is needed if the sustainable development goals are to be met by 2030.
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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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Professor and Director of the Policy Innovation Hub, Griffith Business School, Griffith University
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Associate Professor, Human Resource Management, UNSW Canberra, UNSW Sydney
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Associate Professor in Literary Studies, Monash University
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2024 Oxford University visiting research fellow RIJS; Professor of Political Communication., La Trobe University
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Associate Professor, Bankwest Curtin Economics Centre, Curtin University
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Professor of Gender, Work and Employment Relations, ARC Future Fellow, Business School, co-Director Women, Work and Leadership Research Group, University of Sydney
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