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Germaine Greer's recent comments about the punishments for rape show the need for more complex, evidence-based discussions about trauma and the criminal justice system.
While the #MeToo movement has been revolutionary, some workplaces will be slow to change. Here are seven things we can all do to help stop toxic work environments.
When organizations dedicated to doing good make money their top priority, they get into trouble.
The stoush between Senators Sarah-Hanson Young and David Leyonhjelm harks back to age-old - not to mention nonsense and deeply sexist - dichotomies about women's sexuality and moral character.
Academics and PhD students from a number of Australian universities have reported sexualised bullying, unfair workloads, sexual harassment and in some cases even sexual assault, usually from their superiors and supervisors.
Asylum-seeking and refugee women have been channelling the current surge in global feminist activism to make their voices heard.
Any movement against sexual assault must take into account historical, state-sanctioned violence against black women in the US that goes back centuries.
Germaine Greer's recent comments on rape are troublingly glib.
Markets have mobilised feminism to advance political goals and add value.
Series two of the award-winning show has now moved beyond the original novel.
The Scottish club's move to support women's struggles with menstruation and sport is the first of its kind.
The social structures that once enabled male artists to exploit and abuse women must be cast into the past. But castigating their work to the scrapheap is an act of cultural suicide.
It's not shallow to be upset by the latest scandals. Learning about the bad behavior of people we admire can harm our very sense of self.
The long and turbulent history of the Nobel Prize for Literature continues.
Laws around the world continue to fail victims of rape and sexual abuse. It is time this, too, changed.
After thousands of women spoke out against sexual harassment, scholars asked, does harassment affect women's health? Their findings suggest that it does.
In his short play from 1830, 'Mozart and Salieri,'
Russian poet Alexander Pushkin proposed that genius and evil are incompatible. Here's why this argument is worth revisiting in light of #MeToo.
Like their predecessors, today's feminists can get mired in disagreements over strategies and goals. The celebrated feminist text suggests a more constructive approach.
A revolt by women at the world’s largest sport brand revealed what companies and many others still don't understand about the nature of workplace harassment.
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