Portrait of Miriam Tlali as part of Adrian Steirn’s 21 Icons South Africa project. Date: 15.10.2014.
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A South African novel, published in 1980 and dealing with the Soweto student uprising four years earlier, still provides lessons for students today.
When girl gamers do well, men will often find ways to discredit the success.
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Many think that men are simply better than women at video games. Researchers recently compared performances of male and female gamers to determine if there’s truth to this assumption.
Feeling stressed?
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Social stress is a main cause of depression, and women, in general, experience more stress than men. But new research suggests men may be more vulnerable to depression caused by stressful events.
Caster Semenya was withdrawn from competition in 2009 on the basis that her higher-than-normal testosterone level conferred a performance advantage.
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Until recently, women with higher-than-expected testosterone levels were declared ineligible to take part in track and field athletics.
Eddie McGuire caused a furore by suggesting the drowning of prominent sports journalist Caroline Wilson.
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Two AFL club presidents have created a furore with their ‘banter’ about the drowning of a female journalist. Here’s how it happened, and why it’s unacceptable.
Bissu, or transgender priests, are one of five genders recognized by the Bugis.
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Is our gender determined by our bodies or our culture?
Football is now seen as a legitimate sporting pursuit for girls and women.
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Playing football demands full-contact physicality. How does celebrating women playing elite level football impact the way gender and sexuality is perceived, experienced and made possible?
How is the violence perpetuated by Omar Mateen and Brock Turner related?
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The crimes of Brock Turner and Omar Mateen may be discussed as if they’re unrelated. They’re not.
Anxiety: gender specific.
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New research reveals some startling findings and discovers the problem is worst in the West.
Gillian Anderson as Jane Bond.
It’s time for a new Bond – what about a woman? Two academics debate the cultural implications of changing the spy’s gender.
Hillary Clinton celebrates her nomination.
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Political scientists from Texas A&M, UMass Boston and Emory University react to Tuesday’s big milestone for women in American politics.
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One reason for the series’ success can undoubtedly be found in its spectacle of violence and sex.
The new VW Beetle: heading into the sunset?
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How an icon took a wrong turn.
If we don’t change the way we teach science and maths, we might come to regret it.
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It’s a mistake to allow teenagers to drop maths – it should be made compulsory at A-Level.
A detail from Stanisław Wyspiański’s “Macierzynstwo” (1905).
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What are we really talking about when we criticize women who breastfeed in public?
A 19th-century photograph of a women’s restroom in a Pittsburgh factory.
It wasn’t even until the late 19th century that this was codified into law.
Victorian-era, middle-class black women who loved to read and write didn’t have many role models.
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When biographer Gretchen Gerzina came across an old British newspaper article calling Sarah E. Farro “the first negro novelist,” she wondered: who was Farro, and why had she been lost to history?
Unequal.
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Dress codes in the workplace have a long and complicated history for women – especially those in corporate life.
Body matters.
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Some feminists are causing controversy for challenging views about what it means to be a woman.
False assumptions about the “average worker” impacts on decisions about childcare, paid parental leave and aged care funding.
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False economic assumptions beset the federal budget and that should worry both political parties.