Sexism

Education
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

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

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

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

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

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

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?

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

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?

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