The sale of women’s backpacks is up by more than 20 per cent in the past year: but why can’t we just call it a backpack? Why does it have to be a ‘lady backpack?’
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Women face a number of socio-economic challenges that make it harder for them to access higher education.
The governments of the two West African countries could do more to enhance women’s participation in tourism.
In the early 20th century, women’s food started being described as ‘dainty,’ meaning fanciful but not filling.
Powerful men often proclaim baseless accusations to be a ‘witch hunt.’ But American witch trials have always targeted a persecuted minority: women.
Health services are routinely falling short when it comes to providing care to lesbian, bisexual, trans and other sexual minority women.
Turkey is threatening to send 3.6 million refugees back to the Syrian territory it just invaded. Deporting these vulnerable people would make them the collateral damage of a chaotic, many-sided war.
Life in the country isn’t all it’s made out to be in popular media. That’s what one group of women found who made the move from city life.
Women in the workplace face discrimination at every level, including in upper management.
Women are swinging elections in the US and Australia in ways analysts have struggled to predict. Two recent studies can help explain.
Research offers an insight into the experiences of pregnant women left to give birth in their cells without midwives
Most Kenyan women were introduced into drug use by male sexual partners in their teenage years.
The ruling suggests there is an enduring disregard for one of the most vulnerable groups in today’s society: older women.
It can happen at work, on the street or at home – even by the people who love us. Everyday sexism might be hard to pin down, but it’s pervasive and creates an additional layer of stress for women.
Between 1% and 9% of sex offenders are female. Many are ‘co-offenders,’ recruiting and manipulating victims for others.
How embryos develop, evolution and sexual pleasure all help explain why men have nipples. But ‘man boobs’ are a different story.
The sequel to Margaret Atwood’s dystopian classic provides an apt moment to consider attacks on women’s rights across the world.
The proposed amendments would provide much-needed updates to Victoria’s vilification laws and bring the state in line with NSW, Queensland, Tasmania and the ACT.
Many college students take math classes they’ve already taken in high school. Why does this happen? Is it a problem?
Contradictions abound as companies seek to style themselves as advancing gender equality while at the same time marketing sexist products or thriving on sexist employment practices.
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Professor of Sociology and Founding Director of The Future of Work Lab, The University of Melbourne
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Professor, Curtin Law School and Curtin Business School, Curtin University
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Dean, John Molson School of Business, Concordia University
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Cadre en exercice, John Molson School of Business, Concordia University
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Professor of History, Macquarie University
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Professor of Communication Studies, Colorado State University
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Ph.D. Candidate, University of Arizona
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Professor of Politics and Policy, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau
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Associate Professor in Criminal Law, Durham University
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Canada Research Chair in Inequality and Gender, Western University
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Research Associate, Public Policy Institute, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau
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Professor of Law, University of York
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Associate Professor, Bankwest Curtin Economics Centre, Curtin University
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Reader in Gender Studies, Liverpool John Moores University
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Lecturer of Academic English at Massey University College, Massey University
