Government policy must do more to reflect the fact that rape isn’t just something that happens to women and girls.
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Men who work in female-dominated fields tend to get more prestige and higher wages.
In the early 20th century, women’s food started being described as ‘dainty,’ meaning fanciful but not filling.
Women in the workplace face discrimination at every level, including in upper management.
How embryos develop, evolution and sexual pleasure all help explain why men have nipples. But ‘man boobs’ are a different story.
The myth that women are superior multitaskers has just been busted. So, let’s divide work in and out of the home so women aren’t left running themselves ragged.
Does having children make the goal of fairly dividing work at home more elusive?
Men are feeling more and more pressure to get rid of their love handles and beer bellies – and heavy promotion of unrealistic appearance standards are to blame.
Dirt blindness is used by some to excuse men for spending a third as much time as women cleaning. A new study shows it’s a myth.
From video games developed where players can “play” at raping women, to advertisements that sexualise women’s bodies, men’s entitlement to women is just a given.
Could mothers be responsible for the gender gap? Or are other factors at play?
And it needs to wholeheartedly attack the foundations of western philosophy.
It’s time to address one of the roots of the problem.
The backlash against the Gillette ad shows how painfully little distance we as a society have covered since the #MeToo movement.
There is a wide problem with the way society talks about gender equality.
Economists have used their monetary methodologies to work out how visiting a therapist affects labour income.
With the exception of anger, women experience emotions more intensely and share their emotions more openly with others.
Perfectionism-driven social anxiety means young men will also be susceptible to ideological scripting of behaviour on TV.
Although it has ballooned in recent years, the market for men’s cosmetics isn’t just a modern phenomenon.
If you feel threatened or confused by the #MeToo movement, try channelling your masculinist mystique.
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Professor of Sociology, Queensland University of Technology
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Emeritus Professor, Film and Media Studies in English, Arizona State University
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Senior Lecturer in the School of Social Sciences, Leeds Beckett University
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