In the wake of the #MeToo movement, addressing gender inequality in New Zealand remains a challenge. As the first country to grant women the vote, we have a long way to go to until there's genuine equality across all genders.
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Mar 8, 2019
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The media have become key agents of socialization in the construction of teenagers' and young people's identities. In particular, media representations of sexuality and love become informal educational agents of the first ...
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Feb 14, 2019
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Women's representation in science and medicine has slowly increased over the past few decades. However, this rise in numbers of women, or gender diversity, has not been matched by a rise in gender inclusion. Despite increasing ...
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Feb 8, 2019
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Researchers from the University of Missouri and University of Essex in the United Kingdom say a new way of measuring gender inequality is fairer to both men and women, and presents a simplified but more accurate picture of ...
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Jan 3, 2019
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There are good reasons why those experiencing sexual harassment – particularly in the workplace – don't report it at the time it occurs. To do so is likely to result in ostracism, exclusion, career suicide or a direct ...
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Dec 14, 2018
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Inequity in cities has a long history. The importance of social and community planning to meet the challenge of creating people-centred cities looms large. While planners, government and designers have long understood the ...
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Oct 29, 2018
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Harassed on field trips. Excluded from projects. On the receiving end of micro-aggressions. A lack of female role models.
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Sep 5, 2018
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Only three out of every ten characters seen in the top 50 grossing movies of 2016 were played by women. According to Conor Neville and Phyllis Anastasio of Saint Joseph's University in the US, this in no way reflects real ...
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Aug 14, 2018
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A 'boys club' culture and a lack of flexibility for working mothers are two of the reasons for a gender imbalance in the highest ranking positions in the City of London advertising industry—according to new research.
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Jun 13, 2018
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For many measures of gender inequality, women rapidly made up ground in the latter half of the 20th century, but progress has since slowed or stalled entirely, according to a report released March 16 by the Stanford Center ...
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Mar 16, 2018
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