There are powerful but hidden psychological forces at work that make it difficult for many women to utter the f-word.
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The female body should maintain warmth better than the male, but this doesn’t seem to be the case.
The recent violent rape and murder of a 16-year-old Argentinian girl has sparked a region-wide protest movement against sexual violence in Latin America.
A new database that shows the use of gendered words in major Australian newspapers tells us much about whose voices are being heard.
Women already face high levels of violence in Haiti. But natural disasters can provide a good opportunity to intervene.
Too much research focuses on “fixing women”, so let’s hear the male line on what needs to be done.
Research shows that many young Australians are not aware of appropriate boundaries in relationships. It’s important that children are informed by research rather than rhetoric.
Who am I, as an academic, to decide in advance what is or what is not triggering to others?
Compared to the male-dominated STEM disciplines and social sciences like philosophy and political science, Australian history has been remarkably feminised. Indeed there may be more women historians here than in the UK or US.
Most people have a very limited understanding of what engineers do – and we engineers don’t do a good job of expanding that view. But if we did, the benefits could be impressive.
Most studies on straight girls kissing focus on dorm rooms and dance floors. But one sociologist looks at the development of ‘sexual friendships’ among women previously ignored like single moms.
More needs to be done to protect women against sexual violence perpetrated in war.
Despite persistent myths that sexual violence and harassment are rare, two recent cases – and the subsequent online response – expose their commonality.
But it may be that at some point in the future, coming out will become a thing of the past.
There were seven highly regarded and qualified women who could have been selected as the next UN secretary-general. So why did the job go to another man?
Are quotas the best way to challenge sexism and discrimination in politics and workplaces?
More than 44% of Mexican women face violence in their homes. Some of them become asylum seekers in the United States.
If women aren’t given their full rights, they’re less likely to believe in democratic institutions.
Algorithms that learn from large data sets can pick up inherent social biases. That could perpetuate the biases, or even worsen them.
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Principales colaboradores
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Senior Lecturer, The University of Melbourne
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Jenny Graves es Amigo de The Conversation.
Distinguished Professor of Genetics and Vice Chancellor's Fellow, La Trobe University
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Professor, Family and Sexual Violence, RMIT University
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Associate Professor in Literary Studies, Monash University
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Professor of Sociology and Founding Director of The Future of Work Lab, The University of Melbourne
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Associate professor in Criminology, The University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor/Reader in Gender and Advertising Psychology, Anglia Ruskin University
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Senior Lecturer, Australian College of Applied Psychology
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Professor, Curtin Law School and Curtin Business School, Curtin University
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Associate Professor of History, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
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Professor of Drama and Theatre Studies, Royal Holloway University of London
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Associate Professor, Design Anthropology, Swinburne University of Technology
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Director of Public Interest Technology and Stuart Rice Honorary Research Professor, UMass Amherst
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Professor of Work and Organisation, Queensland University of Technology
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Professor of Sociology, The Open University
