It only takes a few seconds to ask ‘what pronouns do you use’, but knowing and using a person’s correct pronouns can have a big impact on their mental health.
A new Canada-wide survey shows 28 per cent of women-led households struggle with the affordability, suitability or adequacy of their housing. This is almost double the rate of households led by men.
THE CANADIAN PRESS/Paul Chiasson
Proposed changes to the law will prevent schools from providing appropriate support for transgender and gender-diverse young people. These changes could increase their already high risks of harm.
Research shows women job-seekers are turned off by job postings that use the type of language that appeals more to men.
(Piqsels)
Gender bias in health research is an ongoing issue, but health interventions that target women or men ignore gender-diverse people and create new areas of discrimination.
Both sex and gender analysis are crucial to health research to enable access to appropriate health information, diagnoses and care for gender-diverse populations.
(Shutterstock)
Sex is not gender but research continues to treat these as the same concept, with potentially damaging consequences for health studies, health policies and health programs.
As more trans teens have come out, they’ve attracted more attention from the media and politicians.
iStock via Getty Images
Some skeptics say that the growing prevalence of transgender teens is a fad. But history and some recent research show it’s not so simple.
The pandemic has made it difficult for trans people to support one another in person, or celebrate important physical changes with friends.
Yana Paskova/Getty Images
Both male and female employees report reacting more negatively to criticism from a woman, which has implications for the success of women in leadership roles such as Citigroup’s incoming CEO.
Transgender and gender diverse people are more likely to be autistic.
Sandra van der Steen/Shutterstock
Men still dominate the science media landscape, among both quoted sources and the writers themselves. Confronting this problem is not a job just for women, or just for the media - it’s for everyone.
The Bible affirms, in various ways, the inclusion of those who diverge from male-female gender norms.
Shutterstock
In the societies the Bible was written in, masculinity was the ideal. So it’s astonishing there are moments of gender subversion and gender diversity found in the Bible’s pages.
Cricket Australia has committed to review the policy annually.
Shutterstock
Cricket Australia is providing opportunities for people who, while ‘different’, can fit in and feel welcomed.
Julie Bishop and Marise Payne have risen to the top in foreign affairs, but their successes may be masking more systemic issues preventing women from advancement.
William West/AAP
A new report has found a major gender gap persists in Australia’s diplomatic, defence and intelligence fields. Australia needs good ideas, and we cannot assume they will all come from the same place.
That’s not real diversity: the women picked to be on boards generally belong to the same social networks as the male directors.
Shutterstock
Including queer texts in the English curriculum has the potential to affect real social change, including in understanding and confronting inequalities.
Tasmania’s lower house will consider a bill to remove sex from birth certificates, which would be a first for an Australian state or territory.
Shutterstock
Having a gender identity that does not match one’s sex on a birth certificate can cause confusion and embarrassment and potentially lead to discrimination.
Transgender footballer Hannah Mouncey was deemed ineligible for last year’s AFLW draft under new regulations.
David Crosling/AAP
The league’s new policy for transgender footballers is contradictory and places an unfair burden on athletes to track testosterone levels and performance results over a two-year period.