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The BBC has just appointed its 17th male director general. It needs to work harder towards gender equality all round.
Charles Dickens’s attitude towards women was more complex than ‘misogynist’ label suggests.
Gender stereotyping might be funny, but it’s no joke. A public health professor explains why she took action against everyday sexism when she heard it in a radio advert.
It isn’t just politicians: experts, business representatives, even academics quoted in the media are more likely to be male.
Same old rape myths, same old victim blaming.
We might lap up the spectacle of two high-profile women fighting publicly, but when do you ever hear about men having ‘cat-fights’?
Beers with sexist names and labels were banned from the Great British Beer Festival this summer.
In his text Fire of Love, Rolle has a few interesting things to say about medieval gender relations.
Sexual harassment and violence are widespread in universities, and in everyday life. For that to change, the culture has to first.
Is there something in the way theatre is organised that makes abuse of power so depressingly commonplace?
The reality of life as a female sports star.
When it comes to ‘experts’ men still vastly outnumber women in the media.
Women make conscious decisions every day about staying safe, but they consistently underestimate how much effort it all takes and what that means for their freedom.
We must place the responsibility for preventing assault firmly on men’s shoulders.
From jokes to rape, there have been nearly 60,000 posts by women recounting their experiences of sexism and sexist violence since journalist and feminist Laura Bates launched her Everyday Sexism project…
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Professor, School of Psychological and Social Sciences, University of Waikato
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Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, Durham University
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Chair in Feminist Media Studies, University of Strathclyde
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Professor of Education, University of York
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Professor in Criminal Law, Durham University
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Professor of Criminology, Durham University
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Lecturer, School of Arts, English and Languages, Queen's University Belfast
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Lead Academic Tutor, Theatre Studies, Goldsmiths, University of London
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Reader in Sport and Leisure and Studies, Leeds Beckett University
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Associate Professor Social Sciences, Gender& Sexualities, Bournemouth University
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Professor of Sport, Health and Social Sciences, Brunel University of London
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Professor of Gender and Education, Lancaster University
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Lecturer in Media and Communication, University of Leicester
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Principal Lecturer, Department of English, Linguistics and History, University of Huddersfield
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Professor of Work and Organisation, Anglia Ruskin University