What is it like to be a woman working in the sciences? While there are hurdles to overcome, there are joys as well. The new SAGE initiative hopes to make STEM even more amenable to women.
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While fashion can be an act of defiance and subversion, it can also exploit the oppressed.
The money might be a little better, but the lewd comments and unwanted advances may have a negative impact on the mental health of waitresses.
Our new research shows the culture of sexualisation not only affects how young girls see themselves, but also how they are treated and viewed by adults.
Positive stories about the mainstreaming of female comedians could become a smokescreen for an industry getting ever less diverse across a number of areas.
Despite ongoing efforts, achieving gender equality struggles because it is ignored or compartmentalised rather than interwoven throughout.
If a misogynistic atmosphere is allowed to prevail in men’s individual and team sports, then all the platitudes about sport being a socially positive force stand exposed.
While being supported by many sex industry groups, feminists have labelled Amnesty International’s decriminalisation of prostitution a betrayal of women’s rights.
Initiatives to attract and retain women in science must overcome chauvinism and other obstacles to succeed.
There is a wider social, economic and cultural context in which sex work occurs. The criminalisation of consensual adult sex work does not prevent violence – it exacerbates it.
Cosplay involves fans dressing up as a favourite pop culture character, but it’s also a way to experiment with gender. Is there a difference between the way men and women crossplay?
National Women’s Day in South Africa marks the historic protest in 1956 of women against apartheid policies. But, six decades on, black women have yet to fully embrace feminism as a discourse.
What produces the differences between men and women? Are they trivial or profound? Are they genetic or environmental, or both? And are men really closer genetically to chimpanzees than to women?
“Too emotional”. “Lack talent”. “Can’t manage a career and family”. It sounds like a episode of Mad Men, but that’s what regional women hear every day at work.
Thanks to quotas, the proportion of women in parliaments across the world has nearly doubled in the past 20 years.
The first film to see The Beatles in technicolour is 50 years old.
Global cities must guarantee women safe access to public space. But in cities like New Delhi, this access is conditional and bound by moral discourse.
Why oversharing, the act of sharing “too much information”, is a buzzword in contemporary culture.
Many public awareness campaigns fail to change attitudes and behaviours because they start from the flawed premise that just telling someone something is bad will make them stop doing it.
What can Star Trek teach us about today’s trek of life?
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Senior Lecturer, The University of Melbourne
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Jenny Graves é um amigo do The Conversation.
Distinguished Professor of Genetics and Vice Chancellor's Fellow, La Trobe University
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Associate Professor in Criminology, The University of Melbourne
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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, Family and Sexual Violence, RMIT University
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Associate Professor in Literary Studies, Monash University
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Senior Lecturer, Australian College of Applied Psychology
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Associate Professor/Reader in Gender and Advertising Psychology, Anglia Ruskin University
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Professor of Drama and Theatre Studies, Royal Holloway University of London
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Director of Public Interest Technology and Stuart Rice Honorary Research Professor, UMass Amherst
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PhD Candidate, International Relations, Australian National University
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Professor of Communication Studies, Colorado State University
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Full Professor and Associate Vice-President, Research, Mount Saint Vincent University
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Associate Professor of History, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
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Professor of Work and Organisation, Queensland University of Technology
