The Australian netball team after their gold medal win at the Netball World Cup in 2015.
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Netball – one of Australia’s most popular sports – is on track to turn professional. Is this an exciting new chapter for female athletes? Or does netball’s success draw attention from other sports, where women can smack balls, and roam freely?
President Barack Obama stands with Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton during a Clinton campaign event in Charlotte, North Carolina, July 5, 2016.
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Hillary Clinton’s work lifting up girls and women has a striking parallel to the work of women who shaped President Obama and his presidency.
Women need more role models in senior positions to help keep them in STEM careers.
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Attracting women to careers in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) is one issue, keeping them there is another.
Anxiety: gender specific.
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New research reveals some startling findings and discovers the problem is worst in the West.
Keoni Cabral
Both sides of the debate are promising to cut European red tape – which seems to mean cutting equality laws.
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?
Higher earning women aged in their 50s are penalised by prospective super changes.
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Modelling the proposed superannuation policies on gender has revealed unintended consequences.
Victorian-era, middle-class black women who loved to read and write didn’t have many role models.
Jeffrey Green
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?
Unhappy second wife?
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If you can now have a same-sex marriage, why not polygamous one?
Surprise!
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It happens more often than you think.
Countess Markiewicz.
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About 250 women appear to have taken part in 1916’s Easter Rising.
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The association of female underclothes with fashion and seduction owes as much to the advertising and film industries as it does to technical innovation.
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Margaret of Anjou can still speak to modern women in power today.
Zaha Hadid.
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The author of ‘Where Are the Women Architects?’ explores the significance of losing Hadid in a field where female role models are few and far between.
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Belfast court inflicts three-month suspended jail term for acquiring abortion pills online in first criminal prosecution for a decade.
Mothering behind bars.
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It has repercussions far beyond the prison gates.
Carrying water in rural Kenya.
Bethany Caruso
Many women in developing countries spend hours every day fetching water for their families. Reducing the burden of water work will improve their health and welfare.
Policies aimed at increasing workforce participation, childcare and early childhood development all have gender implications.
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Australia was a pioneer in gender budget analysis, but in recent years we’ve fallen behind. We need it back.
Canada shows the rest of the world how it’s done.
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The theme of this year’s International Women’s Day is parity. World leaders take note.
The study found that the average total remuneration for female managers was equal to just the base salary for their male counterparts.
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Women receive less pay than men, especially at a top management level, and are less represented on the board of organisations, a new study has found.