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Racist behaviour in universities manifests itself in nuanced and covert ways.
What could be the consequences of including a question on citizenship?
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An expert explains why a recent plan to include a question about citizenship in the 2020 census is unjust, both for citizens and noncitizens.
A naturalization ceremony in Los Angeles.
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How Americans decide who can come into the country and who can stay reflects beliefs about what makes people worthy of opportunity.
Nellie McClung, a prominent Canadian suffragist in the early 1900s, is now being maligned for her racism and support of eugenics. Should the deep flaws of some suffragists from 100 years ago mean Canadian historians must pay them short shrift?
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Canada is strangely muted in celebrating women’s suffrage. That’s because the politics of remembrance has become a contemporary minefield.
Women face myriad barriers running for office and it’s time to knock down those obstacles starting at the municipal level.
In this November 2017 photo, Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland sits between Maryam Monsef, Minister of Status of Women, right, and Marie-Claude Bibeau, Minister of International Development and La Francophonie.
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Canadian women are under-represented in politics and are hesitant to run for office for myriad reasons. Here’s what needs to be done, especially at the municipal level, to get more women in office.
Go fish.
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We know from every previous wave of feminist activism that some men fear loss of status and power, two things manifest in work and pay.
Universities need to find more ways to encourage Indigenous students to go on to postgraduate study and become academics.
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When it comes to increasing Indigenous Australians’ participation in higher education, we could take a leaf from our neighbour’s book.
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Artificial intelligence is likely to reinforce or even amplify gender inequality because the data used to train machines is biased.
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Not everyone won the vote in 1918, and not everyone is living their best life now.
Equal pay remains a long way away.
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It will take 217 years for women to achieve equal pay at the current rate.
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The collapse of Carillion shows that the construction sector needs to change. One option would be to include women.
Studies of twins let us see the contributions that genes, upbringing and culture make to behaviour.
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Evolution has shaped gender differences, but we don’t have to be bound to this history. We are not mindless automata, doomed to slavishly oblige our instincts and impulses.
True identity.
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There are huge benefits for trans people – and society – when they change their outward appearance to reflect their gender identity.
Outcomes for first peoples in Australia lag behind the non-Indigenous population.
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Australia was ranked top of the world in terms of the efficiency of our health care system and health outcomes, but only seventh in terms of equity.
For Socrates, tolerance is fundamentally about equality and the pursuit of truth.
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Schools and universities have a responsibility to protect students from hate speech while also exposing them to views that disrupt their ways of thinking and ideas of the world.
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Leia’s little-known academic standing can help challenge patriarchal notions about gender roles.
Primary school-aged boys and girls can play in mixed teams until they reach high school, our research suggests.
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Girls in primary school are just as physically capable as their male classmates, our research shows.
Male scientists dominate labs, often with little to no female representation in the work or research subjects.
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Research laboratories are dominated by men, and that’s not only bad for lab culture, it can be dangerous for science.
Race to the top?
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The notion of an society organised on merit has held Britain in its sway for decades.
In most relationships, one partner wields more power than the other.
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Every romantic relationship has a power dynamic. While men are just as likely as women to say they wield less power, the costs of feeling subordinate were far from equal.