Women have reported increased drinking at higher levels than men during the coronavirus pandemic. This is likely because their mental health is suffering.
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Some Boko Haram victims suffer double jeopardy when they return home to their kith and kin.
The study confirms that collecting water for daily use weighs more heavily on women, making life more difficult for especially older women.
Women are underrepresented in technology fields, but especially so in cybersecurity. It's not just a matter of fairness. Women are better than men at key aspects of keeping the internet safe.
Female leaders have shone in the response to the coronavirus pandemic but is there more to it than simply having women in charge?
At a time when surrealists were objectifying women's bodies, American artist Dorothea Tanning was looking deeper at the transformative potential of female experience and the unconscious.
Africa's leaders need to implement COVID-19 policies that protects African economies from the health crisis.
Whatever the eventual impact on women's candidacies post-pandemic, COVID-19 has the potential to shock the system, upending or reinforcing existing gender imbalances in political power.
Is it genes, chromosomes, hormones, the immune sytem – or behaviour – that makes men more susceptible to the deadly disease?
With healthcare facilities burned by the Covid-19 pandemic, some countries have eased access to the "abortion pills" mifepristone and misoprostol (RU-486), a change that could signal a long-term shift.
Today's grandmothers spent their university years protesting. A former Australian Human Rights Commission president tells her sister grandmothers they have nothing to lose by continuing the fight.
Understanding the drivers of early childbearing in specific contexts is important for effective policy making.
Nigerian society has drilled into everyone that certain top roles are reserved for men.
Despite both parents now being at home, the likelihood is that much of the 'domestic' work will still land squarely on the shoulders of the women of the house.
While male and female prisoners at Auschwitz faced the same ultimate fate – torture, forced labor and near-certain death – women sometimes reacted differently to Nazi captivity.
In the past, maintaining physical distance was an important aspect of public life – and clothes played a big role.
Rapid motorisation has made the Indonesian city of Solo prioritise policies to support motorised vehicles, paying little attention to cycling and marginalising poor women.
When fans place a bet, it motivates them to watch a sport and root for a team they might otherwise have little interest in.
Since 2000, 89 new women have come to power in countries around the world – but the US still lags behind.
Recent research explores how women 'dress defensively' to avoid the aggression of other women.
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Associate Professor in Sociology and Co-Director of The Policy Lab, University of Melbourne
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Professor, Curtin Law School and Curtin Business School, Curtin University
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Associate Professor, Bankwest Curtin Economics Centre, Curtin University
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Assistant Professor in Criminal Law, Durham University
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Lecturer in Media and Communication, University of Leicester
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Professor of Law, University of York
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Reader in Gender Studies, Liverpool John Moores University
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Ph.D. Student, University of Arizona
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Senior Lecturer in Literary Studies, Monash University
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Senior lecturer, RMIT University
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Research Associate, School of Social Sciences, Monash University
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Professor of Sociology, The Open University
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Senior Lecturer in Sociology, Aston University
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Director, Bankwest Curtin Economics Centre, and Bankwest Research Chair in Economic Policy, Curtin University
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Professor in Management, Monash University (Australia) and Professor in Management, University of Glasgow
