New research indicates living with daughters can help lower gender wellbeing inequality in old age. But it also hints at the enduring influence of culture.
Sexual deepfake abuse silences women, causing lasting harm, and laws to protect them are inconsistent. A global approach is vital if society truly wants to address the problem.
For the first time since gender identity was added to the Sex Discrimination Act, it’s being tested in court. At its heart, the case looks at the rights and recognition of transgender people.
New research has revealed persistent barriers that continue to thwart the political ambitions of young women from standing for election.
Hazing inflicts severe physical and psychological harm on victims. Education and awareness of the law, effective enforcement and oversight are crucial to combat this harmful practice and safeguard students’ wellbeing.
What symptoms reliably indicate the start of perimenopause or menopause? And which symptoms can menopause hormone therapy help with? Here’s what the evidence says.
With the major awards season over, 2024 is becoming the year for women in music, but a lack of information and knowledge about sexual violence in music spaces and other creative places can dampen this newfound visibility.
Religious discrimination laws have been highly controversial in Australia in recent years. Here’s where they started, and where we are now.
Researchers are conducting the first clinical trial to examine how selective estrogen receptor modulators’ (SERMs) may help both men and women suffering from schizophrenia.
Seven Monash University academics share their unique journeys with us to celebrate International Women’s Day 2024.
What does the future hold for the millions of women left to work in Asia’s agriculture sector battling a climate in collapse?
Gender equality, in the workforce and at home, took a backward step during the pandemic, with the patriarchy taking advantage of the virus. It’s not just up to women to fight back.
The naming, for the first time, of specific companies, not just industries, and what they pay their male and female workers, is set to pressure employers to take action.
Despite evidence that street harassment is arguably the most pervasive to women’s safety in public places, very little is known about its prevalence or patterns.
The pictures men in paid care work are painting of work in the disability sector versus work in aged care are astonishingly different.
Months of painstaking negotiations, mediated by the US, Egypt and Qatar, have led to a new package deal that the two sides are now weighing up.
New research shows that for people living with long COVID and intimate partner violence, each was exacerbated by the other and services were inadequate.
2023 was a watershed year for women’s reproductive rights in Australia, but the cost of contraception and abortion services remains too high.
With sperm counts declining worldwide, it’s important men know how to keep their sperm as healthy as possible.
There’s plenty of evidence showing how social media use can affect youth mental health, but studies often omit the developing countries of the global south.
It was the comic strip and movies that unleashed the legendary Australian comedian, and many of his characters, on the world.
Gender-based violence is a national crisis, one the university sector is not immune from, and we need to step up now.
The federal government’s announcement of $3.5 million to fund a healthy masculinities project trial is promising, but lacks detail on precisely how the funds will be used, and what will inform the programs.
Well-off investors with multiple properties own a majority of rental homes. They have no excuse not to do the right thing by their tenants.
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