Your Social Science Quote of the Week is about looking beyond gender narratives. Writing for Slate, psychology PhD student Jane Hu called out poor media reporting of social science research. She shows that it can adversely affect girls and women, including everything from gender equality at work to patterns of domestic violence:
Continue reading “Quote of the Week: Look Beyond Gender Stereotypes”The United Nations hosts an event on women’s economic empowerment.
Continue reading Roadmap to Women’s Economic Empowerment
Imposing unsolicited ‘compliments’ on women and then being angry when she does not respond with enthusiasm is an example of everyday sexism.
Continue reading “No To Unsolicited ‘Compliments’”
Social science studies find that male bosses are more likely to judge the competence of women managers using a skewed view on gender. In practice, this means organisations are missing out on a proactive approach to leadership.
Continue reading “Why Women’s Leadership is a Business Asset”
American biology student Stephani Page is undertaking her PhD research. She argues that there is a dire need to introduce diversity within the upper ranks of scientific leadership.
Continue reading “Black Women Mentors in Science”
A forthcoming international survey of 240,000 workers by Barbara Annis shows that women feel professional exclusion in their workplaces, while men remain unaware that there’s a problem. Men resort to expressing old fashioned chivalry like opening doors and offering to pay for lunch, thinking this makes women feel more comfortable and appreciated. In fact, it is the way that men exclude women from promotional opportunities, meetings, and mentorship that is a problem for women.
Continue reading “How to Promote Gender Equality in Your Workplace”
The New South Wales Court of Appeal ruled that people do not have to be officially registered as male or female, after Sydney activist ‘Norrie’ (below) contested this law. The judges panel ruled “as a matter of construction … the word sex does not bear a binary meaning of ‘male’ or ‘female.’” This means that transgender, intersex and other queer-identified Australians are no longer forced to fit themselves into a narrow gender binary.
Continue reading “NSW Registrar of Births, Deaths and Marriages vs Norrie”
A question from a reader:
Continue reading “Victim Blaming”Hi there, would you happen to know where I can find a good definition of victim blaming, be it online or a book.
Beautiful spoken word poem by Guante: 10 Responses to the Phrase “Man Up”: I want to be strong in a way that isn’t about physical dominance. Continue reading ‘Man Up’
Here’s an infographic on the global wage gap between men and women.
Continue reading “Labour force gender wage gap”