Gender equality

Catherine Harris

A UNSW Women's Trail across the Kensington and Paddington campuses includes digital profiles of past UNSW staff and students from all faculties and Canberra.

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We will not eradicate the gender pay gap using bad statistics. Here’s what we need to do instead.

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The protests of 2022 are not new in the political landscape of Iran, and novels can help us place them in a larger historical context.

anthony albanese and women labor ministers

For many years Australian cabinets lagged behind the rest of the world on gender equality. Now women make up almost half of cabinet and hold a string of key portfolios.

Vote for Women CFI

A discussion on gender representation in politics has heard Australia risks going backwards if more is not done to help female politicians.

Eleanor Roosevelt with King George VI, Sarah Delano Roosevelt, Queen Elizabeth and Franklin Roosevelt

As first lady during the Depression and Second World War, Roosevelt was instrumental in how the US was run – and did much to advance women in that role.

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Research from a unique natural experiment shows how strict ideas about masculinity can emerge when men vastly outnumber women.

scott morrison

Our prime minister, and many other politicians, appear to not understand the problem with the treatment of women. Here are three problems and three solutions.

scott morrison

The male privilege in Australia’s parliament has given its members such a sense of exceptionalism, they think the standards of the corporate office should not apply to their workplace.

Two female software programmers looking at computer screens.

Female students need to be tech agile because women are twice as vulnerable as men to losing their jobs to automation, says a UNSW tech expert.

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