President Allison Taylor of ‘24’ ends up being exposed as Machiavellian.
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Two researchers viewed all the television series featuring a woman presidential figure, and a remarkably consistent pattern emerged: ambitious fictional female politicians ended up being bad leaders.
A mother (right) talks to her children’s teachers on the progress of her children’s education in Kediri, East Java. During the pandemic, schools in Indonesia are closed and classes are conducted online. This adds to the burden on women.
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The rate of domestic violence cases has increased in Indonesia due to the pandemic.
Six of the author’s studies show health disparities due to both race and gender.
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The issues facing Black Americans are not confined to only racial discrimination. Gender plays a part too.
Professor Naana Opoku-Agyeman was the first female vice-chancellor of a public university in Ghana.
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The value of women to political tickets in Ghana is being recognised as more women are contesting elections at various levels.
Finding valid health care information on social media is harder than it seems.
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Just because YouTube recommends a video doesn’t mean it has medically valid information.
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Previous recessions have mainly hit men. The jobs figures suggest we should treat this one differently.
Fans rally for the U.S. women’s soccer team.
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A scholar explains why the players are having so much trouble with their equal pay claim.
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A study into the new Tasmanian laws finds they are warranted and necessary.
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The mental health of young women is far more sensitive to unemployment than the mental health of young men.
Transgender activist Aimee Stephens sat outside the Supreme Court as the court held oral arguments dealing with workplace discrimination.
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In a national survey, transgender individuals had worse employment outcomes, lower incomes and higher rates of poverty than cisgender people.
Watch out, Karen coming through.
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Generic names can take on a linguistic life of their own, becoming powerful forms of social commentary.
Corporate boards with women on them are more likely to recall dangerous products.
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After firms add more women to their board, dangerous medical products are recalled more quickly.
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Working at home has been far from costless, but many of the costs aren’t counted in the GDP.
Sub-Sahara African countries are on a campaign to reduce cases of early marriage.
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The mental health implications of child marriage on young girls are significant
Little Richard’s rock ‘n’ roll brought the margins to the center.
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Little Richard honed his craft as a teenage drag queen. In everything from his hairstyle to his lyrics, we see the influence of gay contemporaries like Esquerita and Billy Wright.
Work and family, without good childcare, are mutually exclusive.
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A scholar and mother of a young child who is now working at home explores what’s called the ‘work-family conflict’ – and finds that’s the wrong label for the impossible choices faced by parents.
Women bring a much-needed change in perspective to cybersecurity.
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Women are underrepresented in technology fields, but especially so in cybersecurity. It’s not just a matter of fairness. Women are better than men at key aspects of keeping the internet safe.
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Captain Cook’s sailors traded nails for sex, but the history of intimate encounters and their impact on women throughout the Pacific is still largely ignored.
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For many women, childcare has been unaffordable. Suddenly it’s free. It’s as if we have finally realised it is an essential service.
Women’s agency is still mired within wider structures of patriarchy and chronic poverty.
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Phones sometimes serve as a ‘digital leash’ to check women’s whereabouts - a growing feature of many relationships and conflicts.