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With gyms closed and fitness supplies short on the shelves, maybe it’s time to turn your housework into a workout.
Female workers during a soil fertilization process.
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Female labour participation in Indonesia has stalled at 50% for the last three decades. This is a bit of a mystery because Indonesia’s economy has grown dramatically over the same period.
Men still dominate the science media landscape, among both quoted sources and the writers themselves. Confronting this problem is not a job just for women, or just for the media - it’s for everyone.
If you don’t ask for a higher grade you won’t get one.
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An economics professor investigates why college men are more likely to push back when they don’t get the grades they want.
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Closing the reading achievement gap continues to be a pressing global challenge.
A row of Citi Bikes in New York City, where the privately owned bike sharing program has proven immensely popular.
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Bike sharing was once proposed as a solution to narrow the cycling gender gap — but it may be further widening this gap.
The Queen Bee myth has more to do with how companies are structured than it does with women actually undermining one another at work.
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At a time when corporations are struggling to address gender gaps at all levels, killing off stereotyped myths such as the Queen Bee Syndrome is essential.
An all-women moderating team directed the debate.
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Paid family leave and pay equity came up, but on the whole, the remaining Democratic candidates tend to give ‘women’s issues’ short shrift.
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What about the dads?
Women have to push through barriers to access higher education.
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Women face a number of socio-economic challenges that make it harder for them to access higher education.
Members of the Venice International Film Festival jury panel.
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Pledges on gender parity are not worth the paper they are written on if selection processes remain secret.
Even working women who have partners often have to do the most work at home.
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Does having children make the goal of fairly dividing work at home more elusive?
Julie Bishop and Marise Payne have risen to the top in foreign affairs, but their successes may be masking more systemic issues preventing women from advancement.
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A new report has found a major gender gap persists in Australia’s diplomatic, defence and intelligence fields. Australia needs good ideas, and we cannot assume they will all come from the same place.
Women Foreign Ministers’ Meeting in Canada last year.
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South Africa has a long history of women at the helm of its foreign affairs ministry but this hasn’t translated into a gender balanced foreign policy environment
Worldwide, 1 in 10 presidents and prime ministers has relatives who were already in politics. Europe and Latin America, both democratic regions, have the highest proportion of leaders who come from political families.
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To reach the highest rungs of power, a new study shows, it really helps if your dad was president.
Women played a role as both readers and authors in the history of science writing.
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The early days of science writing were largely confined to men, with women treated to texts labelled “for the ladies”. Things have changed, but more needs to be done.
A woman weaves cane sticks to produce baskets in the Maryland community in Ikeja, Lagos, Nigeria.
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Nigeria, like many emerging countries, needs to educate its women at the same rate it does its men to enhance entrepreneurship.
Women leaders in science, health and innovation are collaborating on a global scale to address gender inequality.
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Women leaders in science and technology are working together to address the gender imbalance in their fields.
Moves are afoot to ensure 25% of Egyptian MPs are women.
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Opening up positions of political power to women will lead to effective and better implemented development policies.
Women scientists are under-represented in science awards with large monetary value, but over-represented in service awards.
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Women scientists are under-represented in science awards with large monetary value, but over-represented in service awards.