Built in 1821 to house and provide productive employment for the New South Wales colony’s growing population of female convicts, the Parramatta Female Factory was also the site of countless horrors.
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Finding cosmetics that are free of hormone- disrupting chemicals often means paying more. An epidemiologist explains the risk, particularly for young women.
Young women lack voice and visibility in discussions about family violence in Australia, and particularly intimate partner violence. This must change, urgently.
Research shows that many girls are in elementary school when they have their first period. But often they have not received adequate health education.
Society still tends to sideline girls, so a comedy concentrating on the lives of four young women during the Troubles remains groundbreaking TV.
The pandemic has led to an increase in online interactions, including sexually violent behaviours. Teens as young as 12 are affected, but many victims are not aware of their options in seeking justice.
It’s clear that when girls and young women are at the forefront of major social justice movements, the old structures of patriarchy and misogyny can be challenged and hopefully dismantled.
Fast fashion is far from green. But the rapid expansion of online clothing resale platforms could help shrink the garment industry’s negative impact on the environment.
The gender gap in computing performance has dramatically narrowed, but a confidence gap remains.
In 2017, 56% of men aged 18 to 29 lived with one or both parents, up from 47% in 2001. And over the same period, the proportion of women aged 18 to 29 living with their parents rose from 36% to 54%.
Trokosi is an ancient practice in West Africa where virgin girls, some as young as six are sent as slaves to make amends for wrongs committed by their families.
A record number of underage drinkers sought urgent medical attention in Western Australia last year, and young women made up the majority.
YouTube is awash with videos on beauty and fashion, and young girls are avidly watching, creating powerful social media figures in the process.
BBC sitcom Fleabag rewrites the rules on depicting women in drama, freeing the female character from the mindless stereotyping that has straitjacketed women for so long.
Images of attractive celebrities, friends and acquaintances on social media affect women’s body image and mood, new research shows. But what can we do about it?
With its irresistible mixture of celebrity ‘news’, fashion, beauty and health, Dolly magazine gave girls high-quality, accurate information they were not getting anywhere else.
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Adjunct Associate Professor in History, Australian Catholic University
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Associate professor, UNSW Sydney
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Professorial Fellow and Deputy Director (Research), HILDA Survey, Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research, The University of Melbourne
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Associate professor, Monash University
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Senior Lecturer, University of Sydney
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Associate Professor of Sociomedical Sciences, Columbia University
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Associate Professor in Law, Australian National University
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Doctoral Candidate, Monash University
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Lecturer in Media and Journalism, Glasgow Caledonian University
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Professor and Project Leader, National Drug Research Institute, Curtin University
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Visiting Instructor, University of West Florida
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Instructor, Department of English and Institute of Interdisciplinary Studies (Childhood and Youth Studies), Carleton University
