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The emotional realities experienced by women coaches are adversely impacting their ability to thrive in a culture that doesn’t recognize or support key parts of their work.
By examining the FIFA Women’s World Cup performances, we can gain insights into the efforts countries are making to address gender inequality beyond sports.
The IOC needs to look beyond gender parity and work with international federations to address athletes’ conditions of participation in sports to achieve true gender equality.
In the Japanese workplace, women face discrimination, restrictive behaviour and appearance codes and a lower glass ceiling than elsewhere. Only a profound cultural shift will change that.
Our new research has tracked the gender of artists working at Australian opera companies and found evidence of pervasive gender inequality.
Sexism and misogyny still rears its head in everyday interactions in the financial services industry, not just in the scandals that hit the headlines.
Women’s Day is used to draw attention to the issues women still face in South Africa.
Access to economic and education opportunities increases women’s ability to withstand and recover from financial shocks.
Gender disparities in sport extend to injuries too. Female soccer players are at greater risk for ACL tears than males and it is clear immediate action is needed to address the non-biological factors for the injury.
Despite greater gender equality, some women still prefer traditional gender roles in heterosexual relationships. We set out to discover why.
While positive change has been seen, especially surrounding this year’s Women’s World Cup, there is still much work to be done by organizations governing women’s professional sports.
A psychologist and a literary scholar analyse Faceless, a powerful novel about homeless children - and their mothers.
At the beginning of the pandemic, it was predicted that the shift to remote work would lead to more equal division of domestic labour. Recent research shows this was not the case.
The water crisis is a women’s crisis. Women need to be equal partners in the process of creating more just and effective water governance systems.
Breaking the cycle of eldest daughter syndrome: tips for families.
When government responses to a natural disaster do not address the specific needs and vulnerabilities of women and girls, women tend to lose trust in the institutions.
We will waste the potential of the pandemic if we don’t address the inequalities — specifically the gender inequalities — that it exacerbated and revealed.
Days of international observance recognize challenges facing marginalized groups or society as a whole, draw attention to them and create unity and mobilization around those problems.
Summing up the gender pay gap in one number hides how inequality affects different groups of women.
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Professor of Political Science and Chair of the South African Research Initiative in Gender Politics, Stellenbosch University
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RBC Professor in Responsible Organizations and Full Professor, Concordia University
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Lecturer, School of Psychology, Deakin University
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Professor of European Politics and Society, University of Bath
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Director, XYX Lab, and Associate Professor, Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture, Monash University
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Lecturer in Global Development Politics, University of York
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Professor, Curtin Law School and Curtin Business School, Curtin University
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Professor of Law, The University of Melbourne
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Assistant Professor of Politics and International Relations, University of Nottingham
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Assistant Professor in Finance and Financial Planning, University of Canberra
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Chief executive officer, Grattan Institute
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Pro Vice-Chancellor: Climate, Sustainability and Inequality and Director Southern Centre for Inequality Studies., University of the Witwatersrand
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Lecturer in Creative Industries, The University of Melbourne
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Associate professor at the Centre for Social Development in Africa, University of Johannesburg, University of Johannesburg
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Associate Professor in Human Geography, University of Oxford
