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As a young law student in the 1980s, I was sitting in a lecture theatre waiting for our lecturer to begin. A group of young male students walked in carrying a blow-up plastic sex doll.…

A recent article in the Atlantic brings parents of teenagers fresh alarming news about the deleterious effects of smart phones on their offspring. Written by a respected researcher in psychology, Jean M. Twenge, the article…

As someone who has worked with the NRL as a gender adviser for over a decade the question I am almost guaranteed to get at a party is: “How do you persevere with those boofheads?”…

The Commonwealth Sex Discrimination Act came into being in 1984. It is worth reflecting on that because over 30 years later women are still grappling with many of the same forms of discrimination. The Sex…

There’s a wonderful New Yorker cartoon that shows a woman seated at a conference table with five men. The man chairing the committee says: “That’s an excellent suggestion, Ms Smith. Perhaps one of the men…