For most of the Victorian era, people thought it was normal for men and women to be treated differently, and judged by different standards.
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The U.S. Supreme Court will rule on how the Civil Rights Act applies to LGBT people. A business law scholar explains why it could be one of the most consequential discrimination cases in decades.
Women face a number of socio-economic challenges that make it harder for them to access higher education.
Lack of systemic support for women physicians may help explain why it is hard to find a family doctor in Canada.
In the early 20th century, women’s food started being described as ‘dainty,’ meaning fanciful but not filling.
Our research into drag cultures and performances found that despite the common idea of two schools of drag, it is much more diverse.
Women in the workplace face discrimination at every level, including in upper management.
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During almost all outbreaks, women provide the majority of care to the ill voluntarily in their homes at great risk and cost to themselves.
In the Catalan Pyrenees, women shepherds and cattle ranchers try to valorise the ancestral agropastoral culture to save the mountains from climate change.
As Israelis head to the polls for the second time in 2019, what role will gender play in the vote?
A new study of nearly 500,000 individuals finds that many genes affect same-sex behavior, including newly identified candidates that may regulate smell and sex hormones.
Scholars weigh in on what sex education should look like for Indonesian schools. To this day the subject does not have a formal curriculum.
From 2000 to 2013, less than a third of gendered pronouns within articles (for example, ‘he’ and ‘she’) referred to women.
There’s a strand of radical feminist thought that claims porn causes misogyny. So four researchers decided to test this idea – and descended on a porn expo to study the beliefs of the male attendees.
In Asian countries, many people wield umbrellas to protect them from the sun. American women used to as well – but then stopped.
The Victorian parliament should delay its vote on the birth certificate reform bill to allow more consultation with women’s groups and to assess the potential impact on single-sex spaces.
Proposed reforms in Victoria will not only remove barriers for many TGD people to navigate their daily lives more safely, but help to make gender categories in general less strictly defined.
W.T. Stead’s 1885 account of the process by which wealthy Londoners procured teenagers for sex became a global news story, but the police refused to investigate.
How an implant is designed, tested, regulated and discussed with patients tends to disadvantage women. It’s time that changed.
Does having children make the goal of fairly dividing work at home more elusive?
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Senior Lecturer, The University of Melbourne
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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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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, Australian National University
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Professor of Communication Studies, Colorado State University
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Associate Professor of History, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
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