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Gender inequalities in science won't self-correct: it's time for action

  • Written by: Sarah Hamylton, Senior Lecturer, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Wollongong
Gender inequalities in science won't self-correct: it's time for actionCoastal geoscience and engineering is a broad discipline focused on physical processes at the interface of land and sea. Marco Ferraz, Author provided

Harassed on fieldtrips. Excluded from projects. On the receiving end of micro-aggressions. A lack of female role models.

These are some of our collective experiences as women working in science and...

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Judith Troeth on the Liberal party's woman problem and asylum seekers

  • Written by: Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra

Former Victorian Liberal senator Judith Troeth is no stranger to speaking out forthrightly on issues, even when that goes against her party’s position.

In this podcast, Troeth says the party should adopt quotas to rectify the “abysmally low numbers” of Liberal women in parliament. “We should have quotas, but not forever...

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  2. How will Indigenous people be compensated for lost native title rights? The High Court will soon decide
  3. with more families in apartments, such attitudes are changing
  4. How to co-parent after divorce
  5. The atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
  6. Can we learn from the past in tackling witchcraft-related violence today?
  7. Introducing land rent, the ACT's excellent idea for making houses cheaper
  8. Facebook's new video 'Watch' option enters an already crowded market
  9. Minister for Women Kelly O'Dwyer says Liberals were "subject to threats" in leadership battle
  10. To whack the CFMMEU, Morrison needs first to get the right stick
  11. What is fake honey and why didn’t the official tests pick it up?
  12. When I met James Mirrlees, perhaps the word's greatest tax theorist
  13. Should writers only write what they know? What I learned from my research
  14. how has it come to this in Western democracies?
  15. Political leadership cannot be disentangled from collective psychology
  16. law professor Cass Sunstein, on why behavioural science is always nudging us
  17. what are nightshade vegetables and are they bad for you?
  18. Labor to propose new measures to put downward pressure on gas prices
  19. Dismissed under Mussolini, later Nobel prize winner – the importance of scientist Rita Levi-Montalcini
  20. Why splitting the energy and climate portfolios makes sense
  21. Five of the scariest antibiotic-resistant bacteria in the past five years
  22. A new project shows combining childcare and aged care has social and economic benefits
  23. The great movie scenes: Sofia Coppola's Marie Antoinette
  24. World politics explainer: The Great War (WWI)
  25. Full response from Mathias Cormann for a FactCheck on corporate tax cuts and the US economy
  26. have the Trump tax cuts led to lower unemployment and higher wages?
  27. Look up Australia, cable cars could ease our traffic woes
  28. Party leaders need to address federal parliament's intolerable workplace culture: Phelps
  29. How Australia can fix the market for plasma and save millions
  30. Australian universities to benefit in Australia-Indonesia free trade deal
  31. Don't believe what they say about inequality. Some of us are worse off
  32. Why the WA government is wrong to play identity politics with dingoes
  33. What does the Nine Fairfax merger mean for diversity and quality journalism?
  34. Peter Dutton's decisions on the au pairs are legal
  35. Michelle Grattan on the Liberals' leadership spill and the controversy around au pair visas
  36. whose name on the laws of physics for an expanding universe?
  37. Revised DrinkWise posters use clumsy language to dampen alcohol warnings
  38. What is a mobile network, anyway? This is 5G, boiled down
  39. Australian politics and the psychology of revenge
  40. Peter Corris's Cliff Hardy was a genuine Australian international crime fiction hero
  41. what role does ministerial discretion play in the Chelsea Manning visa case?
  42. For Pacific Island nations, rising sea levels are a bigger security concern than rising Chinese influence
  43. Children’s well-being goes hand in hand with their dads’ mental health
  44. why the UN has found Myanmar’s military committed genocide against the Rohingya
  45. Female corporate leaders make firms less likely to fall foul of environmental laws
  46. done right, awareness-raising days can pack a punch
  47. the art of the colonial kangaroo hunt
  48. why do our muscles stiffen as we age?
  49. how to provide suitable and affordable housing for ageing people
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