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March 8, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Pani Farvid, Senior Lecturer, Psychology, University of Auckland In the wake of the #MeToo movement, addressing gender inequality in New Zealand remains a challenge. As the first country to grant women the vote, we have a long way to go to until there’s genuine equality across all ... <a title="Beyond the binary: how teaching children about gender could help reduce sexism" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/03/08/beyond-the-binary-how-teaching-children-about-gender-could-help-reduce-sexism-113140/" aria-label="Read more about Beyond the binary: how teaching children about gender could help reduce sexism">Read more</a>
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March 8, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sue Williamson, Senior Lecturer, Human Resource Management, UNSW Canberra, UNSW We are in the midst of an outpouring of feminist activism kicked off by the pink pussy hat movement in the United States and propelled by #MeToo, which has spread to Australia where a range of luminaries ... <a title="Backlash and gender fatigue. Why progress on gender equality has slowed" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/03/08/backlash-and-gender-fatigue-why-progress-on-gender-equality-has-slowed-112706/" aria-label="Read more about Backlash and gender fatigue. Why progress on gender equality has slowed">Read more</a>
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March 8, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Susan Harris Rimmer, Australian Research Council Future Fellow, Griffith Law School, Griffith University This is part of a major series called Advancing Australia, in which leading academics examine the key issues facing Australia in the lead-up to the 2019 federal election and beyond. Read the other pieces ... <a title="Next government must find Australia’s place in a turbulent and rapidly changing world" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/03/08/next-government-must-find-australias-place-in-a-turbulent-and-rapidly-changing-world-110794/" aria-label="Read more about Next government must find Australia’s place in a turbulent and rapidly changing world">Read more</a>
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March 8, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By William Peterson, Associate Professor, Flinders University Review: A Man of Good Hope, Adelaide Festival In a world where so many are escaping brutality, war, persecution, and loss of land, is it possible to tell the story of just one displaced person, and in so doing, tell the ... <a title="A Man of Good Hope is no tale of triumph over adversity, but it is the story of many" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/03/08/a-man-of-good-hope-is-no-tale-of-triumph-over-adversity-but-it-is-the-story-of-many-113105/" aria-label="Read more about A Man of Good Hope is no tale of triumph over adversity, but it is the story of many">Read more</a>
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March 8, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Anthea Vogl, Lecturer, University of Technology Sydney This week the Greens announced their refugee policy. It includes allowing private citizens to sponsor refugees as part of its plan to increase Australia’s humanitarian intake by 10,000. In December, Labor also announced plans to increase the existing community sponsored ... <a title="Community members should be able to sponsor refugees for the right reasons, not to save the government money" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/03/08/community-members-should-be-able-to-sponsor-refugees-for-the-right-reasons-not-to-save-the-government-money-112230/" aria-label="Read more about Community members should be able to sponsor refugees for the right reasons, not to save the government money">Read more</a>
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March 8, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Duygu Yengin, Associate Professor of Economics, University of Adelaide International Women’s Day is a good time ask two critical questions about economics: do we have enough women in it, and does it matter? Women are less likley to take it up than they used to be. Twenty ... <a title="Why women in economics have little to celebrate" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/03/08/why-women-in-economics-have-little-to-celebrate-112859/" aria-label="Read more about Why women in economics have little to celebrate">Read more</a>
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March 8, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sunanda Creagh, Head of Digital Storytelling We are but weeks away from an election in New South Wales – polling day is on March 23 – and it will be eagerly watched. Not just for the outcome but for the implications for the looming federal election. That’s ... <a title="Mark Latham in the upper house? A Coalition minority government? The NSW election is nearly upon us and it’s going to be a wild ride" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/03/08/mark-latham-in-the-upper-house-a-coalition-minority-government-the-nsw-election-is-nearly-upon-us-and-its-going-to-be-a-wild-ride-113119/" aria-label="Read more about Mark Latham in the upper house? A Coalition minority government? The NSW election is nearly upon us and it’s going to be a wild ride">Read more</a>
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March 8, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Chris Wallace, ARC DECRA Fellow, Australian National University This is part of a major series called Advancing Australia, in which leading academics examine the key issues facing Australia in the lead-up to the 2019 federal election and beyond. Read the other pieces in the series here. For ... <a title="After years of vicious culture wars, hope may yet triumph over hate in Australian politics" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/03/08/after-years-of-vicious-culture-wars-hope-may-yet-triumph-over-hate-in-australian-politics-110887/" aria-label="Read more about After years of vicious culture wars, hope may yet triumph over hate in Australian politics">Read more</a>
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March 8, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Nick Porch, Senior Lecturer in Environmental Earth Science, Deakin University Forget the apes, we live on “The Planet of the Beetles”. Welcome. With an estimated 387,000 formally described species, beetles (Coleoptera) are the most species-rich of the five mega-diverse groups of insects. The others are wasps, ants ... <a title="Welcome Asterix, Obelix and Yoda! Finding fun in the serious matter of discovering insects" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/03/08/welcome-asterix-obelix-and-yoda-finding-fun-in-the-serious-matter-of-discovering-insects-113036/" aria-label="Read more about Welcome Asterix, Obelix and Yoda! Finding fun in the serious matter of discovering insects">Read more</a>
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March 8, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Arian Wallach, Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Centre for Compassionate Conservation, University of Technology Sydney As a woman working in the environmental sciences, it was always obvious to me that most of my colleagues are men. This tended to focus my attention on surviving in a field in which I ... <a title="My CV is gender biased. Here’s what I plan to do about it" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/03/08/my-cv-is-gender-biased-heres-what-i-plan-to-do-about-it-112871/" aria-label="Read more about My CV is gender biased. Here’s what I plan to do about it">Read more</a>
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March 8, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Lisa Harvey-Smith, Professor and Australian Government’s Women in STEM Ambassador, UNSW In Australia, only 16% of STEM graduates (Higher Education and VET) are women, and 27% of the total STEM workforce is female. So how can Australians support women in science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM)? Nominating ... <a title="Women in STEM need your support – and Australia needs women in STEM" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/03/08/women-in-stem-need-your-support-and-australia-needs-women-in-stem-113054/" aria-label="Read more about Women in STEM need your support – and Australia needs women in STEM">Read more</a>
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March 8, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Bianca Fileborn, Lecturer in Criminology, University of Melbourne Emerging in October 2017 in response to allegations of sexual assault perpetrated by Hollywood movie mogul Harvey Weinstein, #MeToo highlighted the potential for traditional and social media to work together to generate global interest in gender-based violence. Within 24 ... <a title="#MeToo has changed the media landscape, but in Australia there is still much to be done" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/03/08/metoo-has-changed-the-media-landscape-but-in-australia-there-is-still-much-to-be-done-111612/" aria-label="Read more about #MeToo has changed the media landscape, but in Australia there is still much to be done">Read more</a>
