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A new study finds that women improve cyber risk management by bringing new perspectives and skills to the decision-making process of company boards.
The Albanese government’s pay secrecy ban is meant reduce gender-based pay differences. It could help others too.
Many occupations in Australia are more heavily gendered than they were 35 years ago.
The COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated social and economic inequality for women. Women have lost ground in the workforce and have been slower to return to work than men.
While gender-affirming health care is essential to the well-being of trans people, access to quality services varies significantly by geographic region and social context.
The U.S. Antarctic Program struggles to keep women safe – and through the continent’s history, discrimination and prejudice are rampant.
With unprecedented skills shortages looming in Australia, more than ever we need gender equity in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. Here’s what needs to happen.
True gender equity in sport is not simply a matter of paying lip service to equal rights and opportunities. It involves interrogating outdated assumptions and being open to rewriting the rule book.
Over the course of a career and retirement, gender pay gaps lead to a difference of roughly half-a-million dollars for women professors relative to their male counterparts.
Only by requiring state agencies to budget and plan for gender equity can genuine well-being be achieved for New Zealand’s women.
Ahead of the 2022 budget, the government is investing in male-dominated apprenticeships rather than women-dominated care roles. Has anything really changed in how we value the work of women?
Women have found innovative and powerful ways to cope during the pandemic – largely because official policy has failed them. That must change.
When working from home, women struggled more than men to find time for the sustained effort needed to produce good, publishable research. Lack of thinking time is a problem for all knowledge workers.
A study of 3,000 companies found a correlation between local ‘social capital’ – which measures such variables as voter turnout and census response rates – and more women on corporate boards.
The male-dominated makeup of the industry partners who are meant to lead the commercialisation of research could undermine the work towards gender equity in Australian universities.
The 2015 FIFA Women’s World Cup ushered in a new age for media coverage of women’s sport. A new survey of fans shows that while many men feel threatened, a growing number are on board.
If colleges want to address systemic racism within their institutions, they can start by crediting female faculty members of color for work that gets overlooked. A group of higher ed researchers explains how.
Our knowledge of the human body, which is mostly inferred from what is observed in males, may not always hold true for females.
Women college athletes face far more limited career prospects than men. The NCAA’s new endorsement rules may help level the playing field when it comes to making money from their athletic ability.
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Professorial Fellow, Jumbunna IHL, University of Technology Sydney
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Australian Government Women in STEM Ambassador, Professor, UNSW Sydney
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Senior Lecturer in Literary Studies, Monash University
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Professor of Sociology and Founding Director of The Future of Work Lab, The University of Melbourne
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