Misogyny and violence against women are social issues, and require a social response, not a punitive one.
Victoria has announced new teaching resources to tackle the influence of “manosphere” figures among students, but we still don’t have a clear picture of sexism and harassment in our schools.
Australia has come some way since the Sex Discrimination Act came into effect 40 years ago this month, but there’s still more work to be done.
To counter some of the harmful influences of Andrew Tate and others, we need long-term, critical, and transformational approaches embedded within both curricula and school cultures.
Gender-based violence is a national crisis, one the university sector is not immune from, and we need to step up now.
The October 2022 budget marks a departure from the “blokier” budgets of recent years, centring gender equality and the care economy rather than high-vis and hard hats.
We need not just an acknowledgement of children as victim-survivors in their own right, but a commitment to boost resourcing of child-centred recovery support.
For many LGBTIQA+ young people in Australia, educational institutions can be places of harassment and discrimination, and offer little in the way of mental health support. They deserve better.
There’s a crisis in women’s safety, but the budget commitments are piecemeal – and some aren’t even new.
The four main contributors to poor mental health in older women include illness and disability, financial insecurity, maltreatment, and loss and grief.
Australia’s nuclear submarine agreement with the UK and US puts it on a dangerous and subservient path.
Australian fatherhood remains closely tied to “breadwinning”. History helps us to understand why.
Gender justice can’t be achieved by dealing with schoolboy masculinity in isolation of the wider schooling context from which it emerged.
If our education system is truly committed to reconciliation, we must first actively support the acknowledgment of our past.
While stories of human rights violations, and dire warnings about pandemics and an uncertain economic future seem unconnected, research reveals common roots in systemic inequality and discrimination in Australia.
A sexual education program in a Mexico City school is shifting harmful beliefs and behaviours related to gender, sexuality and relationships.
On this episode we’ll hear a more positive perspective – how masculinity is changing, and how men are being encouraged to change past patterns of behaviour.
Rhetoric and hypocrisy can still be seen everywhere in the reconciliation space, and while protests are occurring across Australia in response to the #blacklivesmatter crisis in the US, we shouldn't ignore our own history.
A new study examines the racial and cultural attitudes held towards minority groups by people across Melbourne.
Parenting from prison for fathers who are primary carers raises questions of masculinity, and the effects on children of absent males.
To drive lasting change regarding sexual harassment and assault, greater effort needs to be directed towards preventing these issues from arising in the first place.
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