While climate change threatens livelihoods and security across the board, women and girls commonly face higher risks and greater burdens from climate change, particularly when they are living in...
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STEMM – Enhancing diversity, changing the future: Q&A with Jane Lubchenco
Q: How do you see the issue of diversity in STEMM? Are there any specific examples you have seen of diversity enabling better results than a more homogenous group?A: Diversity enriches and...
Unconscious bias is keeping women out of senior roles, but we can get around it
Most people would not consciously decide to hire candidates based on whether they remind them of themselves. But one unconscious bias – affinity bias – may lead people to favour candidates who are...
Young Women’s Leadership: Why it matters!
For decades, global policymakers and NGOs have advocated for supporting women’s inclusion in decision-making. However, young women are often forgotten as they have ‘aged out’ of aid programs...
From Uber to communal cooking: The diversity of collaborative consumption
The term collaborative consumption often conjures images of the large multinational companies that have shaken up the service industry in recent years – for good or ill. Instead of taxis, we catch...
The Great Debate: It’s not about the money, money, money…
The BroadAgenda team recently attended the Australian Institute of Management (AIM)’s Great Debate. The annual event attracted a full house of people passionate about the topic ‘Equal pay will close...
What’s sex got to do with it?: How voter perceptions of gender shape the outcome
Candidate sex, especially when a candidate is female, can colour a campaign both in terms of the media and the behaviour of other candidates. Experimental work has also shown how voters’ perceptions...
News – What’s gender got to do with it?
As an ABC TV News presenter for some 15 years I developed a somewhat unhealthy fascination with what people do in the privacy of their homes. Initially it was their lounge-rooms, then it morphed...
Digital News Report: Gendered spaces of news consumption
The data from our survey provide evidence of gender-based differences in both how and where men and women engage with the news. These results also might provoke an interrogation into how news is...