On Dec. 6, 1989, 14 women were murdered at École Polytechnique. Women in a mechanical engineering class were targeted, and 30 years later the ratio of women to men in engineering hasn’t improved much.
An all-women moderating team directed the debate.
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The South African child support grant is progressive in its gender-neutrality, yet men make up only 2% of those who collect it.
Prime Minister-elect Justin Trudeau, accompanied by his wife, Sophie Gregoire-Trudeau, arrives at Rideau Hall in 2015 for the swearing in of his new gender-balanced cabinet.
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“Because it’s 2015” became a rallying cry for gender parity when Prime Minister Justin Trudeau named his first cabinet that year but equality is still not the norm in the world.
Men who conform to sexist masculine stereotypes are more likely to be violent against women.
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For every 100 men, up to 25 have raped or pressured a woman into sex.
Jocelyn Moorhouse’s The Dressmaker, is the fifth highest grossing Australian film this decade – more women should be given the support to make big feature films.
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In August, Screen Australia announced they had surpassed targets in their Gender Matters initative. But their September 2019 production funding round has no women directors or writers.
Morocco reformed its family law in 2004 to increase the legal age of marriage to 18.
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Moha Ennaji, Université Sidi Mohammed Ben Abdellah
The region has made progress but efforts must continue to end a harmful practice rooted in poverty and tradition.
The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces at al-Omar oil field in Deir Al Zor, Syria, at the announcement that they had ended the Islamic State’s control of land in eastern Syria, March 23, 2019.
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Kurdish women have fought on the front lines of military battles since the 19th century. A scholar explains the origins of Kurdistan’s relative gender equality in a mostly conservative Muslim region.
Women will keep fighting for true pensions equality.
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Detailed analysis of 1,300 movies finds that women actors earn an average of US$1.1m or 25% less than their male colleagues.
A third of all police personnel in Australia are women, but in some localities, the rates of women officers are trending in the wrong direction.
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Although opportunities have expanded for women in policing, the numbers of women on most forces remain well below 50% and women are very underrepresented in senior roles.
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.
KPMG says Australia’s gender pay gap declined from $3.05 an hour in 2014 to $2.43 in 2017.
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Only 13.83% of AI authors in arXiv are women and, in relative terms, the proportion of AI papers co-authored by at least one woman has not improved since the 1990s.
Things were improving until 2009. HILDA finds there’s been little improvement since.
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Peter Martin, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
The official figures show things are fine, but Australia’s most comprehensive tracking survey finds the typical household is worse off than ten years ago.
Professor of Gender, Work and Employment Relations, ARC Future Fellow, Business School, co-Director Women, Work and Leadership Research Group, University of Sydney