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Bad female characters start with bad writing. We compare male and female character descriptions, which are often used as the starting point for casting calls.
Women sellers are receiving on average about 80 cents for every dollar men earn when selling the same product, according to new research.
Moralising commentaries about the Safe Schools Coalition are out of touch with social research about gender and the realities of the ways that young people understand their own sexual and gender identities.
It will be difficult to make headway on gender equality while it is framed as “women’s issues” and no everyone’s problem. The answer? Bring men on board.
The push to bridge the gender gap and encourage more women and girls into a career in science gets the backing of the United Nations special day.
Australia’s inimitability with regard to women’s political equality has barely entered conventional studies of political history.
The IOC’s changes to transgender policy is useful, but the situation is still complicated.
Men and women may be charged differently for the same product, but the problems come when you don’t have the choice.
No one is only their sex or only their race or only their sexual orientation. Social psychologists are starting to investigate how people of multiple minority groups are perceived.
Research shows that women are especially drawn to gay men in certain contexts.
We may like to proclaim that ‘gender is between your ears, not between your legs’, but things are often different in the real world.
As genders blur, language is rapidly adapting. Look no further than the American Dialect Society’s 2015 Word of the Year.
The global color authority seems intent on obliterating the confines of gender-color associations.
As Chris Gayle has so amply demonstrated, there is still considerable resistance to the full integration of women into sport culture – and not least in the sports media.
Australian politicians have twice reminded us what it feels like for a woman to live in a world where some men don’t actually think very much of us.
The film tells the story of Lili Elbe, who was one of the first people to receive sexual reassignment surgery. Sadly, the film barely scratches the surface of the real story.
A review of some of the top arts and culture stories from the past year.
When a pregnant celebrity announces “no hot nannies,” what does it say about parenting, gender roles and our culture?
Sexual harassment is a persistent and damaging problem in many Australian workplaces. But why does it appear to be an entrenched feature of some organisational settings more than others?
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