For 50 years, country music executives in Nashville have tried to dilute the genre’s rich, diverse history.
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Caitlyn Jenner evokes Demi Moore’s controversial 1991 Vanity Fair cover shoot, done when pregnancy was something to be hidden.
Men rule the roost in science and technology as women continue to battle against the glass ceiling.
There’s much more to the naked male bodies of these programmes than the simple titillation that meets the eye.
Transgender is a relatively new word. So when an academic seeks to create a transgender historical archive, complications abound.
The Doof Warrior in Mad Max: Fury Road is a red-jumpsuited, masked guitarist, bungee-strapped to the front of the Doof Wagon, a massive, mobile speaker stack, replete with on-board drummers. What’s not to love?
If you want to know a child’s gender, just ask them and then listen to the answer.
Eurovision is popularly heralded as the song that unites Europe, but recent controversies about gender, social justice and human rights paint a different picture.
Is it appropriate that a Playboy centrefold from 1972 is still being used as a standard test image in image processing circles?
It is time to breathe new life into South Africa’s feminist movement to seriously combat the perpetuation of patriarchy.
Unlike most images and text that appear public spaces, this graffiti is intended for the eyes of the same sex.
The intense spotlight on one female baseball star might lead some to believe that she’s the first and only one. She’s not.
By pre-school children are already thinking about the career they will have when they grow up, and ruling out jobs that do not fit with their gender. We need to get in early to get rid of stereotypes.
Now that women will make up 40% of High Court judges come June 2015, is gender now irrelevant? Hardly. Women have made up slightly less than 10% of all High Court judges in the court’s history.
Warmer temperatures can throw off the gender balance in some species. But some fish can adjust their offspring’s gender to compensate, but only if temperatures don’t rise too high.
Men might believe that women don’t have what it takes to be serious sports fans but new research into female AFL fans proves them wrong. Some women are footy converts, some have it in the blood – and some were born to it.
Temporary migrating couples from Indonesia face rapid and vast shifts in gender roles in their relationships.
The glass ceiling is as present as ever, with women increasingly getting boxed into certain roles.
Schools need to do more to protect both girls and boys from society’s gender stereotyping.
A new report by the OECD on achievement gaps between boys and girls ignores much previous research on gender.
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