Director Taika Waititi’s new Thor: Love and Thunder features a female superhero, but again struggles to transcend the stereotypes of a genre where the male fan base still decides the rules.
Could it be that girls aren’t pursuing jobs in computer science and engineering because society has told them that’s not what they want to do? Three scholars weigh in.
Betty Crocker’s first official portrait, on the left, from 1936. Her most recent portrait, from 1996, is on the right.
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She never ages. Her visage morphs. And yet women used to write letters to this brainchild of advertising executives, a cultural icon who still looms large in the nation’s imagination.
Naomi Priest, Australian National University and Tania King, The University of Melbourne
We reviewed research into gender stereotypes and biases in early childhood, and found gender as a social category develops early in life, and insight into some gender stereotypes begins early.
Science fields are improving at being more inclusive. But explicit and implicit barriers still hold women back from advancing in the same numbers as men to the upper reaches of STEM academia.
Ghanaian students attend a class in a madrasa or Muslim school.
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A gender-justice researcher reviewed the entire newly released government sexuality education resource for teachers. She found several significant problems.
Gender discrimination and dominance of male culture top the list of constraints that women face in entering the construction industry.
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Children take their lead from their parents. And it is, after all parents, not teachers, who have regular, long-term contact with children from birth onwards.
Experts reviewed the literature on climate change and gender in developing countries, and found many unhelpful, outdated assumptions are still kicking around.
The Australian Association of National Advertisers’ new code of ethics improves standards for mainstream advertising but leaves a big loophole in social influencer marketing.
There were women among the crowd that marched to the Capitol and stormed the building.
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The 2020 campaign showed voters how the candidates and their campaigns modeled gender roles differently. That has implications for who can be president in the future.
A woman casts her ballot in Victoria, Seychelles in 2016.
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Although society portrays a woman who earns a living as free and empowered, outdated values and stereotypes still promote discrimination against female breadwinners.
Journalists need to be sensitised to the need for gender representation in media content.
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