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Only by requiring state agencies to budget and plan for gender equity can genuine well-being be achieved for New Zealand’s women.
Despite the treatment of women being hotly debated in recent times, they have been largely overlooked during the election - and that may have big consequences on May 21.
We asked six experts to nominate books that might help us avert environmental catastrophe. Here’s what they said.
Data privacy is an abstract issue for most people, even though virtually everyone is at risk. If abortion becomes illegal, digital surveillance could take an even darker turn.
The Victorians are to blame for our conservative ideas about how a pregnant body should look
Women meet to weave, reflect, commiserate, share culture and tell stories in hopes of passing down ancestral knowledge.
Letizia Battaglia’s images of Mafia bloodshed made it impossible for people to turn a blind eye to the criminal outfit’s reign of terror.
Women don’t want to ‘intimidate’ a man through their photos – but this is just one way they are hiding their true selves.
Research shows apps designed to make journeys more environmentally friendly aren’t considering women’s transport needs.
Mirrors, selfies and knowing other people are looking at you all cause people to think of themselves as objects. Video calls are all three in one and are likely increasing the harms of self-objectification.
Not having the proper diagnosis as a child can have a serious impact on mental health in adulthood.
Women have found innovative and powerful ways to cope during the pandemic – largely because official policy has failed them. That must change.
The treatment of women in Parliament House and Australian society more broadly has been the focus of much attention since the last election – how political leaders respond may decide their fate.
Empowering women can be a solution to the economic slowdown and health crisis resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic. As the host of the G20 2022 Summit, Indonesia should focus on the issue.
In Ukrainian history and culture, women enjoyed independence and agency. The presence of women fighters in the war now is no surprise.
A speech expert wonders what this says about the pressures women in leadership roles feel – and the broader cultural impulse to police the way women speak and sound.
A study of 3,000 companies found a correlation between local ‘social capital’ – which measures such variables as voter turnout and census response rates – and more women on corporate boards.
There is a pervasive message from fashion, tech and the media that women can change their lives if they could be more confident.
Many Indonesian women want to pursue higher education, but structural barriers remain.
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Professor of Sociology and Founding Director of The Future of Work Lab, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of History, Macquarie University
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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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Associate Professor in Criminal Law, Durham University
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Professor of Gender, Media and Sociology, Western University
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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. Candidate, University of Arizona
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Senior Lecturer in Literary Studies, Monash University
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Professor of Psychiatry, 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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