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Whatever the eventual impact on women’s candidacies post-pandemic, COVID-19 has the potential to shock the system, upending or reinforcing existing gender imbalances in political power.
Is it genes, chromosomes, hormones, the immune sytem – or behaviour – that makes men more susceptible to the deadly disease?
With healthcare facilities burned by the Covid-19 pandemic, some countries have eased access to the “abortion pills” mifepristone and misoprostol (RU-486), a change that could signal a long-term shift.
Today’s grandmothers spent their university years protesting. A former Australian Human Rights Commission president tells her sister grandmothers they have nothing to lose by continuing the fight.
Understanding the drivers of early childbearing in specific contexts is important for effective policy making.
Nigerian society has drilled into everyone that certain top roles are reserved for men.
Despite both parents now being at home, the likelihood is that much of the ‘domestic’ work will still land squarely on the shoulders of the women of the house.
While male and female prisoners at Auschwitz faced the same ultimate fate – torture, forced labor and near-certain death – women sometimes reacted differently to Nazi captivity.
In the past, maintaining physical distance was an important aspect of public life – and clothes played a big role.
Rapid motorisation has made the Indonesian city of Solo prioritise policies to support motorised vehicles, paying little attention to cycling and marginalising poor women.
When fans place a bet, it motivates them to watch a sport and root for a team they might otherwise have little interest in.
Since 2000, 89 new women have come to power in countries around the world – but the US still lags behind.
Recent research explores how women ‘dress defensively’ to avoid the aggression of other women.
Despite recommendations from the Child Abuse Royal Commission that church leaders develop measures to increase women’s participation and status in the church, the opposite is occurring.
In urban Namibia, performance poetry provides a safe space for women to share their experiences and challenge traditional ideas.
An expert in domestic violence and abuse explains how you can help those you are worried about.
It’s dehumanising when cartoonists use images of sexual violence to make broad-brush comments about society.
Small business grants are supposed to help Colombia’s disarmed FARC fighters start new lives as entrepreneurs. But interviews with 12 female ex-insurgents suggests the government plan may fail women.
A round-the-clock strike of Muslim women in a working-class neighborhood of Delhi is India’s most enduring pocket of resistance to religious discrimination, inequality and gender violence.
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Professor of Sociology and Founding Director of The Future of Work Lab, The University of Melbourne
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Professor, Curtin Law School and Curtin Business School, Curtin University
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Dean, John Molson School of Business, Concordia University
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Cadre en exercice, John Molson School of Business, Concordia University
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Professor of History, Macquarie University
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Professor of Communication Studies, Colorado State University
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Ph.D. Candidate, University of Arizona
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Professor of Politics and Policy, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau
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Associate Professor in Criminal Law, Durham University
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Canada Research Chair in Inequality and Gender, Western University
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Research Associate, Public Policy Institute, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau
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Professor of Law, University of York
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Associate Professor, Bankwest Curtin Economics Centre, Curtin University
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Reader in Gender Studies, Liverpool John Moores University
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Lecturer of Academic English at Massey University College, Massey University
