Victoria's closure of child-care services may be necessary, but it will put pressures on parents and likely drive down women's workforce participation.
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In 2016, women represented just 29% of workers with university qualifications in science, technology, engineering or maths. And that was before the pandemic disruption.
We need a new childcare system that encourages women to work, not punishes them for it
The culture of the legal profession has been built by men for men over centuries. It continues to rely heavily on personal networks that reinforce the status quo.
A group of leading black, queer and feminist academics held a colloquium to reconsider a seminal blackness studies text – offering new ways of thinking about the decolonial project.
Sports have been out of action during the coronavirus lockdown, but the recovery period is a chance to redefine sporting success beyond winning and profit margins.
Women have always done the lion's share of the "invisible" caring work at home: the impact of coronavirus may force all of that to change.
There is no shortage of projects to boost the number of women in science, technology, engineering and maths. But what we need is more hard data on whether and how these schemes are actually working.
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Women need to be included in all matters of health.
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.
Women-focused capital financing is supposedly aimed at ending the corporate gender gap. But many equity investors still view women entrepreneurs as being deficient and are practising pinkwashing.
Support for European soccer clubs is defining relationships between spouses.
A summer exhibition of man-made craft is a rare thing - but do men really need a leg up when it comes to artistic recognition?
"Because it's 2015" became a rallying cry for gender parity when Prime Minister Justin Trudeau named his first cabinet that year but equality is still not the norm in the world.
In August, Screen Australia announced they had surpassed targets in their Gender Matters initative. But their September 2019 production funding round has no women directors or writers.
Although opportunities have expanded for women in policing, the numbers of women on most forces remain well below 50% and women are very underrepresented in senior roles.
There's a strand of radical feminist thought that claims porn causes misogyny. So four researchers decided to test this idea – and descended on a porn expo to study the beliefs of the male attendees.
The official figures show things are fine, but Australia's most comprehensive tracking survey finds the typical household is worse off than ten years ago.
For families, the HILDA report has little good news – childcare costs, poverty and anxiety are rising, all while women are more involved in the labour market. But there is some reason to hope.
Scandinavian welfare states have made it easier for women to reconcile family and career. What's odd is that Anglophone nations aren't far behind.
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Professorial Fellow, Jumbunna IHL, University of Technology Sydney
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Senior Lecturer in Literary Studies, Monash University
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Australian Government Women in STEM Ambassador, Professor, UNSW
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Associate Professor in Sociology and Co-Director of The Policy Lab, University of Melbourne
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Honorary Fellow, Melbourne Business School
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Associate Professor, Bankwest Curtin Economics Centre, Curtin University
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Senior Lecturer, University of Melbourne
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Professor, UTS Business, University of Technology Sydney
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Director, Centre for Employee and Consumer Wellbeing; Senior Lecturer, Deakin Business School, Deakin University
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Professor of Sociology in the School of Social Sciences, Monash University
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Associate Professor, Department of Politics, Media and Philosophy, La Trobe University
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Professor of Gender, Work and Employment Relations, Associate Dean, University of Sydney Business School, co-Director Women, Work and Leadership Research Group, University of Sydney, University of Sydney
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Associate Professor, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
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Research Fellow in Sociology, University of Melbourne
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Marian Baird is a Friend of The Conversation.
Professor of Employment Relations, University of Sydney
