A protester carries a #metoo sign at a Women’s March in Seattle on Jan. 20, 2018.
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After thousands of women spoke out against sexual harassment, scholars asked, does harassment affect women’s health? Their findings suggest that it does.
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Findings suggest parties should rethink the way they chase the ‘female vote’.
Circe and Her Swine: Character sketches of romance, fiction and the drama , 1892 , New York, E. Hess.
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France’s answer to #MeToo was #BalanceTonPorc – “denounce your pig”. An analysis of the idioms linking to sex and pigs provides some insights into why the hashtag hit home.
Australian nurses and patients at the Auxiliary Hospital Unit in Antwerp during the first world war.
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Among all things Anzac, the contribution of women is becoming more complicated and controversial.
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They’re silly, but the singer’s statement pants are an important comment on female storytelling.
A woman walks by the New York Stock Exchange.
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Single women borrowed heavily in the run-up to the financial crisis, ensuring they suffered the most in its fallout. Will history repeat itself?
Taking the fall.
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More women are making it to the boardroom but are often promoted to an untenable and precarious leadership position.
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More and more radical scholars and activists in the West are rejecting human rights. Is this right?
Is muscle definition now being added to an already impossibly thin ideal?
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The rise of ‘fitspiration’ seems to promote a body that is both impossibly thin and muscular. A new study explores whether this has become a new benchmark for women.
Masculine words and metaphors are frequently used in financial language.
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The stock market is littered with metaphors made by and for men, so it’s no wonder women don’t feel as comfortable in investing.
Less than a third of biographical entries on Wikipedia are about women.
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Wikipedia’s coverage on women is less comprehensive, and its volunteer editor base is mostly male. What can be done to change the numbers?
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Women with AIDS were excluded from the US definition of the syndrome until 1993. What’s changed?
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The principle argument as to why women should remove the niqab in court seems compelling, but it is based on flawed assumptions.
Men’s dominance in the boardroom has barely changed over the years.
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The share of board seats held by women varies dramatically across the country, from none in Alaska to close to half in New Mexico. A few key policies may make all the difference.
Women face myriad barriers running for office and it’s time to knock down those obstacles starting at the municipal level.
In this November 2017 photo, Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland sits between Maryam Monsef, Minister of Status of Women, right, and Marie-Claude Bibeau, Minister of International Development and La Francophonie.
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Canadian women are under-represented in politics and are hesitant to run for office for myriad reasons. Here’s what needs to be done, especially at the municipal level, to get more women in office.
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An all-women workforce used to weed Italy’s rice fields. And they left a powerful historical legacy.
After a diagnosis of HIV, some women see themselves as blameworthy, contaminated or contagious, because of societal discourses of risk and stigma.
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On International Women’s Day, everyone can pledge to be an ally to women living with HIV and support their access to sexual health and sexual pleasure.
Deedra Abboud is running for the U.S. Senate in Arizona.
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Research shows they face greater obstacles to election than their male counterparts, thus work harder and represent constituents better.
More Australian employers are introducing actions to address gender pay inequalities.
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A combination of analysis and action is the most effective way to close the persistent gender wage gap.
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If you feel threatened or confused by the #MeToo movement, try channelling your masculinist mystique.