Sexism

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Q&A

Q&A: How to talk to your kids about misogyny in school

It can be a challenging conversation, but parents must talk to their children about their experiences of sexism and misogyny in school

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Arts & Culture

‘The Man’: Taylor’s feminism could go so much further

Taylor Swift’s ‘The Man’ promotes the idea of women being given the same standards as men, we should instead focus on not making ‘alpha male’ the standard

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Health & Medicine

Misogyny in medicine impacts us all

Misogyny in medicine is rife in 2023 and Australian hospitals must adopt a gender equity framework to ensure quality patient care

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Politics & Society

The reckoning of Gillard’s misogyny speech

A historical reckoning with Gillard’s misogyny speech forces us to acknowledge there are no heroes – and that’s okay

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Sciences & Technology

The importance of teaching boys about brilliant women

By normalising brilliant women to our daughters and our sons, we make room for those women. If we don’t, it becomes a real problem for successful women when those boys become men

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Politics & Society

Trump, nipples and the hypocrisy of the social media giants

It took a mob to attack the US Capitol before then President Trump’s incitement was banned by the social media companies, but these same companies routinely censor the marginalised

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Business & Economics

Women, age discrimination and work

Ageism and sexism are nothing new, but many countries are reporting an increase in age bias, particularly against women. So why are women less likely to make an age discrimination claim?

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Health & Medicine

Call for a new age in science

No scientific evidence suggests that women are intellectually inferior to men, so the peer-review processes that overwhelmingly benefit men are scientifically flawed

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Sciences & Technology

It’s time to retire Lena from computer science

Why has a pornographic image been widely used to train computer scientists and their algorithms? And what sort of message does it send to women?

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Health & Medicine

How do young Australians see violence against women?

New research shines a light on young Australians’ understanding of sexism, violence and abuse – and highlights that there’s more work to be done to change bad attitudes

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