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In Mexico City, feminist groups spray-painted the names of Mexico's murdered women on the pavement of the Zócalo, the capital city's enormous main square, during the International Women's Day March.
It's dehumanising when cartoonists use images of sexual violence to make broad-brush comments about society.
The Australian government has committed funding to men's behaviour change programs in the wake of the murder of Hannah Clarke and her children – but what are they and do they work?
Two interventions proved effective in reducing men's perpetration, but not women's experiences of violence.
Government policy must do more to reflect the fact that rape isn't just something that happens to women and girls.
A Chilean feminist anthem is being sung across the world in protest at violence against women.
Thirty years after the Montreal Massacre that killed 14 women, new threats such as the incel movement pose dangers to the feminist movement.
While we remember the women murdered 30 years ago, we shouldn't ignore those short, terse paragraphs in the news that describe the everyday, routine violence inflicted upon women.
Mattel created a new line of dolls because of research suggesting kids don't want toys 'dictated by gender norms' – but supplanting those norms will take a lot more than that.
On Dec. 6, 1989, 14 women were murdered at École Polytechnique. Women in a mechanical engineering class were targeted, and 30 years later the ratio of women to men in engineering hasn't improved much.
Engineering is in a better place than in 1989. More women are studying the field, and academic administrators and managers want to hire female engineers. But more work is still needed.
The media presents female victims as culpable for their own brutalisation. For Grace Millane, this meant her sexual preferences were more important than the horror of her death
For every 100 men, up to 25 have raped or pressured a woman into sex.
Same old rape myths, same old victim blaming.
Research has a distinctive role to play because it gives pointers on what is needed to create long-term change.
While it's important to protect vulnerable children from exposure to further harm, it's also important to give them a voice to speak about their own trauma from domestic violence.
A new batch of female crime writers are bringing their real life experiences of law enforcement to their work in a way that rings true for readers.
As protests continue in Mexico about violence against women, some have blamed macho culture. But that may do more harm.
New national data, on campuses and elsewhere, can help shift our shared narratives about the root causes of gender-based violence.
Top contributors
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Associate Professor, Criminology and Justice Studies, RMIT University
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Director, Monash Gender and Family Violence Prevention Centre; Associate Professor of Criminology, Faculty of Arts, Monash University
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Associate Professor in Crimninology; Deputy Dircetor Monash Gender and Family Violence Prevention Centre, Monash University
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Professor, Center for Research on North America, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)
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Reader in Sociology and Social Policy, Glasgow Caledonian University
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Associate Professor in Criminology, Bond University
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Lecturer in Criminology, University of Melbourne
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PhD Fellow based at the Wits City Institute, University of the Witwatersrand
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Professor and Head of Department of Political and Conflict Studies, Nelson Mandela University
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Professor of Communication Studies; Research Chair on Intersectionality, Violence and Resistance, Concordia University
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Senior Lecturer in Peace and Conflict Studies, The University of Queensland
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Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Advancing Journalism, University of Melbourne
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Senior lecturer, University of Technology Sydney
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Professor of Criminology, Monash University
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Adjunct Professor, Monash University
