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Margaret of Anjou can still speak to modern women in power today.
It took ages for one of African jazz’s hidden masterpieces to be reissued. Still today, four decades later, 1976’s ‘African Songbird’ tells volumes about the politics of the time.
One of the primary ways people express their gender is through their voice. Voice features such as pitch, voice quality and inflection signal the person’s gender to others.
The author of ‘Where Are the Women Architects?’ explores the significance of losing Hadid in a field where female role models are few and far between.
A new journal article has proposed that women changing their surname acts as a signal of fidelity to their husbands.
At a time when thin, muscly men dominate popular media, male ‘plus size’ models are all too rare. Yet the average Australian man is not lean and stringy – imagine if he saw himself in ad campaigns?
Many girls with autism go undiagnosed, perhaps because they’re good at camouflaging their autistic traits.
The new alcohol guidelines limit of 14 units a week for men and women hides a more complicated story.
The royal commission’s recommendations seek a complete transformation of Victorian family violence services, and the state’s prevention of and response to family violence.
Madonna, who attacked “sexist” criticism of her Rebel Heart tour, has always had a troubled relationship with feminism. And there is little about pop’s perfectionist workaholic that is rebellious today.
My number of spectators is bigger than yours – why there are more sexist issues at play in tennis than the size of your crowd.
How do Afrikaners find a place in post-apartheid South Africa? A look back at the dissidents who took on the apartheid state over decades offers some examples.
Many babies are born with a genetic variant that can result in the child being neither a typical boy or girl. There has been considerable debate about whether the child should be treated.
It’s fitting that on International Women’s Day we recognise the fact that greater diversity in science boosts research and its economic outcomes.
The Australian Christian Lobby’s Lyle Shelton said he was concerned about body modification, gender reassignment surgery and future suicide risk. We check the research.
Hillary Clinton epitomises women’s shifting place in the American polity – and her struggles to win over younger women reflect that.
While London and Stratford-upon-Avon go into meltdown over the upcoming anniversary of Shakespeare’s death, a new production – shown recently in Western Australia – is worth looking at closely.
Publishing the data on the differences between salaries for men and women will only be half the battle.
Hormones may not be the only thing that determines how your organs act.
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Jenny Graves is a Friend of The Conversation.
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