While Clinton’s popular vote win shows progress toward gender equality, her rival’s nomination of just three women to his Cabinet is a reminder of how much work still needs to be done to overcome bias in management.
When his partner was pregnant, Russell Brand announced he may raise the child ‘gender-neutral’ to avoid social constraints associated with being a boy or a girl. So what determines your ‘sex’?
In Sudan, female genital cutting is common among many communities. The use of movies that debate this question could change people’s opinions about the practice.
It is possible to trace the links between patriarchy, violence, gender roles, and the state further into the past. It’s also possible to trace the ongoing resistance to these by some women.
Women remain systemically underrepresented at the top levels of Australia’s most powerful institutions – including the media, universities, government, judiciary and corporate sector.
Australia is now having a national conversation on domestic violence. Yet the way violence degrades women’s financial status remains in the shadows. Much more needs to be done.
Clinton won women by 12 points and lost men by 12 – creating a 24-point ‘gender gap.’ While that’s the largest gender gap in history, the record shows that female voters were always different.