South Africa’s Caster Semenya in the moments before the women’s 800-meter final during the Diamond League athletics event in Doha, Qatar on May 3. The world champion easily won the race, but her future remains in doubt.
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The great South African runner Caster Semenya may have competed in her last 800-metre race. She has been demonized for more than a decade, like many other female athletes before her.
Men are more likely to dream about being in an open relationship than women.
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White men have historically and disproportionately held official, managerial and professional occupations. But women and people of color are slowly gaining.
Podcasters can introduce new voices to the conversations about the cities we live in.
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Podcasters are creating new conversations about who and what the city is for. But even in the podcasting world, powerful interests can make it hard for new and previously excluded voices to be heard.
Millions of women in Africa spend long hours collecting water.
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From video games developed where players can “play” at raping women, to advertisements that sexualise women’s bodies, men’s entitlement to women is just a given.
While 68 percent of men now support marijuana legalization, only 56 percent of women do.
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A country’s tax policies say a lot about what it values – and some of America’s tend to promote inequality.
A woman casts her vote at a polling station in the southeastern Turkey Kurdish stronghold of Diyarbakir on March 31, 2019 during the local elections to elect the mayors for 30 large metropolitan cities, 51 provincial capitals and 922 districts.
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Research suggests that men who are exposed to cultural images of traditional masculinity have a greater vulnerability to sexual dysfunction than those who aren’t.
President Trump says that the white working class is being pushed out of the job market. But that doesn’t seem to be true for the best-paying blue-collar jobs.
While in other countries, women are bringing down the powerful men who assaulted and harassed them, in Indonesia assault victims are still struggling to find justice.
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A combination of a deep-rooted patriarchal culture, conservative religious values and gender-insensitive law enforcement practices still deters Indonesian women from reporting rape.
Pink pussy hats are out at International Women’s Day events, but they are facing opposition.
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Fewer girls study economics today than 25 years ago, perhaps because they have become aware of the barriers to progress.
Most of us make daily decisions about who we choose to work and collaborate with. So what if we used that to improve professional diversity?
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