The recent election of José Maria de Vasconcelos, or Taur Matan Ruak as he is known, to the Presidency of Timor-Leste is not good news for women in that country.
Adding yet another member of the male…
Is there a genuine rise in the appeal for sadomasochist behaviour among women in 2012?
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The poster for Secretary is up on my wall at work. I actually paid to see A Dangerous Method purely for Jung’s novel approach to therapy (and God do I hate period films.) While I probably won’t read all…
We might expect dramatic sex ratio fluctuations when a whole population experiences extreme food shortages.
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People often ask me whether natural selection continues to operate on modern humans in industrialised societies, even though technology has liberated so many from hunger and early death. My answer is always…
Julia Gillard's recent leadership battle provides a lesson for all executive women.
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Today is the 101st anniversary of International Women’s Day, a day celebrated around the world to mark the legal, political, social and economic achievements of women.
The change in corporate governance…
Carla Bruni's daughter Giulia will never officially be known as a mademoiselle after the French government changed its policy.
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Alongside sketchy rationales like postponing the whole rat race thing, a pivotal reason that I got my PhD was to avoid the Miss/Ms conundrum. As first world a problem as is imaginable, but it plagued me…
What's gender got to do with it? We asked Cheryl Kernot.
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As one of the few women to have run a political party in this country Cheryl Kernot is well aware of the role gender plays in the Australian political landscape.
In the wake of Bob Brown’s claim this…
A toilet wall has more than meets the eye.
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La Trobe University’s Dr Jan Schapper recently completed a study into signage and writing on women’s toilets in Australia. The research, just published in the international journal, “Gender, Place and…
There is an entire history of excuses given for why women shouldn't be given roles in the military.
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The recent plan to see women take on frontline combat roles in the Australian military from 2016 removes one of the last formal barriers to women’s participation in all realms of work.
Unsurprisingly…
Solomon Island women were excluded from the peace-making process after the civil war.
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There is a profound silence in conflict. Women’s voices are absent. They are excluded from decision-making and peace processes across the world’s trouble spots.
This exclusion not only perpetuates political…
Saudi women are still segregated from men in many walks of life, but next year they will get the right to vote.
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While Saudi women celebrate their hard-earned right to vote in next year’s Municipal Council elections, the frenzy of international media interest highlights just how mysterious this country remains…
A stroll down the personal growth aisle of the bookstore tells us, among other things, Why Men Don’t Listen and Women Can’t Read Maps.
The answer, as authors Alan and Barbara Pease delightedly inform…
We can't afford to leave so many of our best brains behind.
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Why are there fewer women working in science than men?
Things have certainly improved, with participation in many branches of science at undergraduate and graduate levels now broadly balanced between…
Women rushed to change their lives in the 60s and 70s, but their progress has stalled now.
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No one is too surprised today if a young woman becomes a doctor, lawyer, or executive. But eyebrows are raised just about as much today as in decades past if a couple features a tall woman and short man…
Men are the economic winners from the current resources boom
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In a decision hailed as ground breaking Fair Work Australia has recently determined that gender is a key factor in women’s low pay.
Essentially the argument is that workers in the female dominated community…
