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There’s an intricate interchange of culture, tradition and societal narratives in the way the vulnerable boys and girls experience school.
Women in cities tend to get more walking done, which is beneficial to both their health and the climate. Making streets safer for cycling would give them greater access to cities too.
The objectification of women’s beauty measured by competitive processes, linked specifically to the body, strengthens patriarchal norms.
The provision of better health services and social grants has aided rural women’s progress in South Africa, but there are still tremendous needs to be met.
The recent federal election could be a game-changer for organizational gender inequality. The proposed Canada-wide child-care strategy could have a profound impact.
The problem of gender-based violence and femicide in South Africa is structural and fuelled by inequalities that transect race, class, gender, sexuality and age.
Greater urgency is needed in the response to pandemics, to end AIDS and to end COVID-19.
Despite the emancipation of women in China in 1949, sexual harassment and inequality in the workplace are still the norm.
Racial and gender disparities in access to work are entrenched features of the South African labour market.
At the heart of the issue for school children, parents, caregivers and teachers is to confront from a very young age the question of sex, sexuality and gender.
Over 15 seasons, 90% of all opera productions at The Royal Opera credited a male director.
Theatre is able to create a space for discussion about how and why women experience physical and emotional violence.
The heavily male community of jazz musicians and audiences have created barriers to success for women in the genre.
These appointments provoked debate in Uganda, reflecting both the constraints and the possibilities of women’s rights reform in an authoritarian country.
Promoting entrepreneurship will help reduce unemployment in South Africa. But the government has to step up its game.
In rural Kyrgyzstan, 1 in 3 marriages begins with an abduction. Older generations see this as a harmless tradition, but two brides have been killed since 2018. A study finds other problems, too.
The high-profile athlete’s struggles raise questions about society’s views on mental health, as well as the effects of race, gender and fame on well-being.
Australia has gone backwards in global gender parity rankings, with even universities, which should be leading the way, failing on this front. But women are now saying enough is enough.
Policies are needed to prevent child marriage and protect women who marry as children from abusive relationships.
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RBC Professor in Responsible Organizations and Full Professor, Concordia University
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Professor of Political Science and Chair of the South African Research Initiative in Gender Politics, Stellenbosch University
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Director, XYX Lab, and Associate Professor, Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture, Monash University
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Professor, Curtin Law School and Curtin Business School, Curtin University
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Chief executive officer, Grattan Institute
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Pro Vice-Chancellor: Climate, Sustainability and Inequality and Director: Southern Centre for Inequality Studies., University of the Witwatersrand
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Professor of Law, The University of Melbourne
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