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Human resources professionals should be trained at school and encouraged on the job to take employee complaints seriously. But that’s not how the profession works now.
Public-facing feminism can often be a superficial distraction from systemic sexism.
The movie business has co-opted many into it’s own dark narrative.
Women change working cultures – and as the Harvey Weinstein allegations show, Hollywood is badly in need of it.
How pervasive is sexual harassment, and how can it be stopped?
Old habits die hard.
Women in science receive less funding than men and apply for smaller grants. This inequality needs to be addressed now.
With the recent death of Hugh Hefner, come questions about his impact on sexual culture: Did his empire broaden the sexual landscape or did it usher in a pitiful era of objectification of women?
The Canary has been accused of spreading “fake news” about the BBC’s political editor. We asked two media experts to examine the issue.
Schools and universities have a responsibility to protect students from hate speech while also exposing them to views that disrupt their ways of thinking and ideas of the world.
Leia’s little-known academic standing can help challenge patriarchal notions about gender roles.
The abolition of ‘instant divorce’ practice in India highlights how Muslim women are successfully and progressively changing gender rights.
Two plays about the way men and women talk about each other with their own are both illuminating and disappointing
The twilight of Jacob Zuma’s ruinous presidency coincides with growing revulsion at his misrule of South Africa. But, it’s important that his erstwhile supporters acknowledge their complicity.
A pattern of male leadership and female passivity in heterosexual romance is woven into the formula on the popular TV show The Bachelor.
Even short-term exposure to negative stereotypes has detrimental effects on cognitive functioning.
Modern neuroscience doesn’t support the idea that intrinsic differences between men and women are fixed and unchangeable.
His anti-PC ‘manifesto’ might be filled with nonsense, but that doesn’t mean James Damore’s thoughts have no value, or that he should have been fired.
Five years after a major sexism scandal, Silicon Valley’s misogynist culture remains strong and pervasive – and history reveals the stakes could be as high as the entire US tech sector.
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Associate Professor/Reader in Gender and Advertising Psychology, Anglia Ruskin University
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Senior Lecturer, The University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor Social Sciences, Gender& Sexualities, Bournemouth University
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2024 Oxford University visiting research fellow RIJS; Professor of Political Communication., La Trobe University
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Professor of Sociology and Founding Director of The Future of Work Lab, Podcast at MissPerceived, The University of Melbourne
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Professor, School of Politics Economics & Society, Faculty of Business Government & Law, University of Canberra
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Professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Oregon State University
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