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As India grapples with boosting the number of jobs available to people, it must ensure it does not leave women behind.
Carlton’s Sarah Hosking in action in the 2019 AFLW grand final.
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The AFLW has come a long way in a short time. But amid calls for even faster expansion, more games and a longer season, it pays to remember that in footy you shouldn’t go too hard, too early.
The Coalition government has rejected the Uluru Statement’s call for an Indigenous voice to Parliament, just one of many disappointments for Indigenous peoples.
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Some of the Coalition government’s initiatives on women and Indigenous issues have been more successful than others. Labor is promising much more.
A woman casts her vote at a polling station in the southeastern Turkey Kurdish stronghold of Diyarbakir on March 31, 2019 during the local elections to elect the mayors for 30 large metropolitan cities, 51 provincial capitals and 922 districts.
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As the number of women in politics increase, more women’s voices will be heard: the example of co-mayorship in Turkey is a first step.
Speaker of Rwanda’s Chamber of Deputies Donatille Mukabalisa on international women’s day. Rwanda is a trend-setter in female representation.
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In many African states power is concentrated in the executive branch. That’s why women’s representation in cabinet matters.
South African churches still have a long way to go in accepting queer worshipers. Supplied by author.
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At local level some congregations are bravely creating alternative models where LGBTIQ people can feel safe and be accepted
The gender pay gap has proved difficult to close.
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Women make about 81 cents for every dollar a man earns, little changed in recent years. Could more pay transparency change that?
Who’s making dinner tonight?
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There are at least eight different ways to view gender equality. And this helps us understand why one of the biggest challenges for workplace gender equality is defining and measuring success.
Saudi students walk at the exhibition to guide job seekers at Glowork Women’s Career Fair in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Oct. 2, 2018.
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Despite a repressive legal system that puts men in charge of female relatives, women in Saudi Arabia also attend school, become lawyers, see friends and fight for their rights.
While in other countries, women are bringing down the powerful men who assaulted and harassed them, in Indonesia assault victims are still struggling to find justice.
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A combination of a deep-rooted patriarchal culture, conservative religious values and gender-insensitive law enforcement practices still deters Indonesian women from reporting rape.
Things are changing quickly in lower management, but at the very top there remains a hard-to-attack barrier.
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The hard nuts to crack are getting women into chief executive positions and getting them paid as much.
Most of us make daily decisions about who we choose to work and collaborate with. So what if we used that to improve professional diversity?
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A confession: I can count on a single hand the number of women I have invited to collaborate with me on publications and grants.
San Antonio Spurs head coach Greg Popovich has advocated for women in coaching. He’s pictured here with assistant coach Becky Hammon at a game against the Los Angeles Lakers in San Antonio, Feb. 6, 2016.
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Sponsorship, whereby a mentor in a powerful role advocates for a mentee, is what’s needed for women to advance in coaching.
Women leaders in science, health and innovation are collaborating on a global scale to address gender inequality.
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Women leaders in science and technology are working together to address the gender imbalance in their fields.
Cubans attend a public discussion to revamp the country’s Cold War-era constitution in Havana, in August 2018.
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Cuba will not legalize same-sex marriage, as gay activists hoped. But its new constitution adds greater protections for LGBTQ people and for women, and gives Cubans the right to own private property.
Women in Malawi visit clinics many more times in their lives than men.
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Female-centred health services are good, but they may detract from gender equality and men’s health.
Moves are afoot to ensure 25% of Egyptian MPs are women.
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Opening up positions of political power to women will lead to effective and better implemented development policies.
Canada’s Minister of the Status of Women Maryam Monsef is pictured in the Library of Parliament on Parliament Hill, in Ottawa on Feb. 28, 2018.
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New research shows that female politicians spend more on health and education, improving the well-being of a population.
Although there is a global war on gender studies, women’s movements around the world continue to resist. Here people shout slogans during a protest at the Sol square during the International Women’s Day in Madrid, March 8, 2018.
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A bomb threat outside a gender research institute in Sweden is just one sign that things are escalating in the long battle for global gender equality.
We’ve got this.
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There is a wide problem with the way society talks about gender equality.