Australia’s defining narratives are apparently, with rare exception, stories by, for and about white cis men. We need more than Screen Australia’s new measures to address gender equity in the film industry.
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If the Australian screen industry is to grow into the future and prosper, it cannot ignore the untapped creative talent and leadership potential of women. We need strategies to address this problem.
It’s not just a lack of access to healthcare that causes child mortality.
Climate change isn’t gender-neutral. The effects are likely to hit the world’s poorest women hardest of all, because they are more likely to lack the resources to escape natural disasters or disease.
There is more equality for women winning social research grants, but men still get more overall.
South Africa is emblematic of why violence against women responses in Africa are failing. While good measures are being rolled out, it lacks a united, comprehensive, multi-disciplinary response.
Women need to start believing in themselves to be successful. Men own their success but women attribute it to external factors. Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg learned this a while back.
Donald Trump got menstruation onto the front page of the New York Times. With the taboo broken, it’s a good time to talk about how all girls everywhere can manage their periods safely and privately.
The South African gender pay gap is estimated, on average, to be between 15% and 17%. Employers are benefiting unduly from the historic undervaluing of women’s skills and contributions.
The next time you’re weighing a company’s job offer, it may be wise to find out the gender of the CEO’s children.
Is getting work-life balance right for men the answer to workplace gender equality?
Women hoping to disrupt the organisational norm of male as leader can benefit from an understanding of hostile takeovers.
Cyberhate would deny women their full democratic rights as citizens, yet this is trivialised and dismissed – just as sexual violence, discrimination and workplace harassment have been for decades.
The new government should link policies on education, career progression and welfare to tackle the lack of women in science.
There may be only one way to tell the truth, but there are at least five ways to “lie.” And our politicians seem to be the master of this art. A scholar decides to teach this to his students.
Making the case for subsidising childcare is not as simple as it might seem, and the government’s new childcare package may not pay for itself.
It is time to breathe new life into South Africa’s feminist movement to seriously combat the perpetuation of patriarchy.
The way opportunity is structured is the very thing stopping more women entering leadership roles in the workforce.
Now that women will make up 40% of High Court judges come June 2015, is gender now irrelevant? Hardly. Women have made up slightly less than 10% of all High Court judges in the court’s history.
The worst-kept secret in American politics is finally out in the open. What now?
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Professor of Sociology and Founding Director of The Future of Work Lab, Podcast at MissPerceived, The University of Melbourne
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Professorial Fellow, Jumbunna IHL, University of Technology Sydney
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Lecturer in Australian Politics, Monash University
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Professor and Director of the Policy Innovation Hub, Griffith Business School, Griffith University
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Associate Professor, Human Resource Management, UNSW Canberra, UNSW Sydney
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Australian Government Women in STEM Ambassador, Professor of Practice, UNSW Sydney
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Associate Professor in Literary Studies, Monash University
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2024 Oxford University visiting research fellow RIJS; Professor of Political Communication., La Trobe University
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Scientia Professor, UNSW Sydney
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Associate Professor, Bankwest Curtin Economics Centre, Curtin University
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Professor of Gender, Work and Employment Relations, ARC Future Fellow, Business School, co-Director Women, Work and Leadership Research Group, University of Sydney
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