Demonstrators gather in support of women’s rights and equal justice in Tunis in June 2022.
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Former president Bourguiba’s standing as father of Tunisian feminism has come under scrutiny.
Women lack emotional support as working academics
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The pandemic lockdown added a big teaching load; female academics also found themselves having to play more of a nurturing role.
Some women in Nigeria knowingly or unknowingly contribute to patriarchy.
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The Chrisland Schools incident shows how the media allows males to get away with actions that females cannot.
Women wait for food distribution to commence at the Government Girls Secondary School IDP camp in Monguno, Nigeria.
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Sexual violence against women and girls in Nigeria’s northeastern region persists because of the Nigerian government’s lax response to cases of sexual offences.
Crossbench MPs Kate Chaney, Zoe Daniels, Monique Ryan, Allegra Spender and Zali Steggall in the new parliament
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From Barbados to Finland, we’ve seen women’s leadership on climate bring fair, innovative and ambitious policies.
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Women entrepreneurs in Africa face challenges which make them additionally vulnerable to climate change.
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Our new research casts a harsh light on the realities of working in film and television.
Gwen Harwood (1920-1995).
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Two new books examine the life and legacy of an inspiring poet whose work resisted patriarchal constraints.
A new U.S. quarter shows Nina Otero-Warren, a leader in New Mexico’s suffrage movement and the first female superintendent of Santa Fe public schools.
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As a women’s rights activist, Nina Otero-Warren fought for the right for women to vote in New Mexico. Now, her image is featured on the US quarter.
Heroic actions are often intuitive – even impulsive – rather than a product of thoughtful deliberation.
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Study after study has shown that men tend to be more willing to put themselves in harm’s way to help others. Why some men rise to the occasion – and others don’t – has been a bit trickier to pin down.
Ethiopian women at a garment factory at the Hawassa Industrial Park in the country’s southern region.
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In democratic contexts, getting women into work empowers them. In autocracies like Ethiopia’s, this doesn’t hold. We found out why.
Dirty fuels are still popular in large parts of Africa.
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In urbanising communities in sub-Saharan Africa, women cooking primarily with charcoal and wood had approximately 50% higher odds of likely depression than those cooking with gas.
Increasingly, it’s women who are harvesting crops as heat waves worsen.
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As crops fail in the rising heat, men are leaving many rural areas for migrant work in cities. Women are left to tend to the farming in increasingly dangerous conditions.
A dozen states now provide a total of $89 million in funding to pregnancy centers.
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Offering free pregnancy tests, sonograms and counseling, the pregnancy help movement maintains more than 2,700 resource centers throughout the United States.
Widows in the northern Nigerian city of Kano.
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Widows in Nigeria are still exposed to harmful practices.
Senators Elizabeth Warren and Patty Murray responding to news that the Supreme Court is poised to overturn the Roe v. Wade decision.
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Are the same forces that threaten the right to abortion in the United States coming to Australia?
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Without women in strategic positions, renewable energy projects are at risk of being inappropriate, or even failing.
The swimsuit issue continues to promote sexual attractiveness as women’s main currency.
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We can promote inclusion and celebrate the beauty of diverse bodies without piggybacking on that relentless message about what makes women worthy.
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The Portuguese artist, who has died at the age of 87, had a strong feminist streak in her work that blazed a trail for women’s rights.
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One of the biggest barriers to gender equality the Liberals face is an entrenched belief the economic market is gender-blind and can be relied on to improve equality.