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Canadian women are under-represented in politics and are hesitant to run for office for myriad reasons. Here’s what needs to be done, especially at the municipal level, to get more women in office.

Fellowships should recognise that women may have different responsibilities when it comes to domestic chores and care of the family. This influences their academic opportunities and career choices.

The exhibition brings together legions of courageous women who made political works of art about their lives to tell the story of the feminist movements of the 1970s and the 1980s.

Women have to take on more unpaid labour – and manage their emotional response to this extra work.

The new government should link policies on education, career progression and welfare to tackle the lack of women in science.

Of women who die from cervical cancer, 87% live in poor countries.

Wikipedia’s editors and articles reflect and reinforce a lack of diversity.

Universities are still patriarchal institutions, with men dominating senior leadership positions. Systemic mechanisms are needed to ensure all our future leaders are able to flourish.

The low share of women revealed in this data is problematic for two reasons: a lack of diversity, and what it shows about women’s participation in the social network of informal collaboration.

Many colleagues and friends have asked me about the surge and intensity of sexual harassment in Egypt, which has already received plenty of attention within academia and the international media. They ask…