Original content made by subscription and on demand platforms such as Netflix and Amazon is taking off – but what does that mean for women screenwriters and producers?
According to a recent study, horror is the only film genre where women appear and speak as often as men.
The new Superstar in STEM ambassador Lisa Harvey-Smith at the Australian Astronomical Observatory’s 3.9m Anglo-Australia Telescope at Siding Spring Observatory.
Women are paid 20 percent less than men in the US but live about five years longer than men. You might be surprised at the reasons that men, on average, die at a younger age.
Women in political leadership face many of the same problems, no matter where they live.
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Bangladesh is a global poster child when it comes to improving women’s status in the developing and the Muslim worlds. But a recent amendment to the country’s marriage law threatens its progress.
An activist takes part in a protest in December 2015 to mark the third anniversary of the Delhi bus gang rape.
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While Clinton’s popular vote win shows progress toward gender equality, her rival’s nomination of just three women to his Cabinet is a reminder of how much work still needs to be done to overcome bias in management.
How many non-white writers are published in Australia each year? Is their job to remain at the exotic margins of our literary culture?
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A recent attempt to broaden the Stella Count by measuring the diversity of writers reviewed proved to be a hard ask. Is the bigger problem here the whiteness of our publishing industry?
The grave of women’s suffrage leader Susan B. Anthony is covered with ‘I Voted’ stickers.
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Clinton won women by 12 points and lost men by 12 – creating a 24-point ‘gender gap.’ While that’s the largest gender gap in history, the record shows that female voters were always different.
The appointment of three women to politically powerful roles is symbolically significant for Japanese women.
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The Coalition has reached a compromise to get its superannuation reform past its own party, but the changes will make it harder for women and older workers.
In 2014, Obama signed executive actions aimed at narrowing the pay gap between men and women. Did they work?
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