While not all men are willing to become involved in women and children’s health, some situations force them take on ‘women’s work’.
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The myth that women are superior multitaskers has just been busted. So, let’s divide work in and out of the home so women aren’t left running themselves ragged.
Does having children make the goal of fairly dividing work at home more elusive?
Nearly one-quarter of young people surveyed said women exaggerated claims of sexual assault. This is only one reason why education on underlying values that lead to violence against women matters.
Across the English-speaking world, boys tend to drop out of foreign language study as soon as it is not mandatory.
After the Christchurch mosque shootings, New Zealand’s prime minister didn’t start a war on terror. She covered her head, cried, paid for funerals and passed gun control. Is it because she’s a woman?
From video games developed where players can “play” at raping women, to advertisements that sexualise women’s bodies, men’s entitlement to women is just a given.
In children’s literature, mothers are rarely more than anonymous homemakers – unless they are wicked queens.
A brutal rape at Pamplona’s 2016 running of the bulls outraged Spain. Then came #MeToo. With ever more Spaniards taking up the feminist mantle, schools – many of which are not coed – lag behind.
Flexible working is seen as a solution to the gender pay gap but cultural norms are getting in the way.
A single solution can’t magically erase gender-based violence in schools, but if we start listening to students, we may hear new stories of masculinity and femininity echoing through school hallways.
Universal low-cost childcare and workplace flexibility will help mothers return to the workplace and are important investments in the Australian workforce.
Gender differences in jobs and attitudes are wider in countries with more equality, but that’s not the end of the story.
The Wife: my research shows that this self-sacrificing form of wifehood is hardly history.
A survey in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, shows the more flexible the roles of men and women in the family, the happier they are.
On the front lines were female tennis players who refused to adhere to the club dress codes that banned them.
Gender essentialists who think “men are from Mars and women are from Venus” are more likely to accept gender discrimination and respond negatively when women seek power.
Men have come to dominate military combat but new evidence suggests this might be more an accident than an inevitability of evolution.
Australia’s convict past and male-dominated sex ratios have long-lasting effects on attitudes, impacting women’s working lives.
During the war, few Americans actually saw the ‘Rosie the Riveter’ poster that’s become a cultural icon.
Principais colaboradores
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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 of African Studies, University of Ghana
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Research Associate, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
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Professor of Critical Social and Health Psychology, Keele University
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Social economy research manager, Intellidex and research associate, UJ, University of Johannesburg
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Principal Research Fellow, Australian Institute for Suicide Research and Prevention, National Centre of Excellence in Suicide Prevention, Griffith University
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Professor of Psychology, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of History, Monash University
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Associate Professor, Education, Deakin University
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Casual Academic, University of Technology Sydney
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Professor, History & Philosophy of Science program, School of Historical & Philosophical Studies, The University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor, Federation University Australia
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Professor, The University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor in Urban Planning, The University of Melbourne
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Professor, Emerging Technologies Research Lab, Monash University, Monash University
