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Gender quotas can work but it depends on how employees feel about them

  • Written by: Edwin Ip, Researcher, University of Melbourne

If you think your boss is in her position only because of a gender quota and not because of merit, it could affect the work you do for her.

Gender quotas may be effective in fixing an imbalance of men and women in the workplace but whether they are good or bad for organisations depends on how people feel about them, our study shows.

Gender quotas...

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Egalitarian or Edwardian? The rising wealth inequality in Australia

  • Written by: Jennifer Chesters, Research Fellow, Youth Research Centre, University of Melbourne
imagePerceptions of the levels of both income and wealth inequality are derived from our day-to-day experiences.AAP/Dean Lewins

Recent commentary on levels of inequality exposes the myth that Australia is an egalitarian society in which the privileges of birth have little currency.

Focusing on inequality in the distribution of incomes ignores an equally...

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This is how regional rail can help ease our big cities' commuter crush

  • Written by: Michael Buxton, Professor of Environment and Planning, RMIT University
imageRail investments have brought Ballarat, Geelong and other regional centres closer in travel time to Melbourne than many outer suburbs.Tony & Wayne/flickr, CC BY-NC

In Sydney and Melbourne, the squeeze is on. Population is booming; house prices are still rising; roads and trains are congested. Australian governments generally have ignored the...

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Top of the Lake: China Girl is defiant, adventurous TV

  • Written by: Blythe Worthy, PhD Candidate, The University of Sydney, University of Sydney
imageNicole Kidman as Julie in Top of the Lake: China Girl: a control freak brought to her knees.See-Saw Films for BBC First and Foxtel

“I want it to go for six hours, and I want it to be about a group of postmenopausal women. Unfuckables,” said Jane Campion of her vision for the television show Top of the Lake.

In the first episode of its...

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  3. Same-sex marriage reform heads for the snail mail
  4. Liberal partyroom slaps down same-sex marriage rebels
  5. Cartel case shows not all corporate misbehaviour goes unpunished
  6. This Girl Can('t)? Campaign simply reworks 'sex sells' approach
  7. Explainer: what is silicosis and why is this old lung disease making a comeback?
  8. The Conversation's submission to the Senate inquiry into the Future of Public Interest Journalism
  9. Technology drives the need to rethink sex work industry regulations
  10. Medicine's gender revolution: how women stopped being treated as 'small men'
  11. Man flu is real, but women get more autoimmune diseases and allergies
  12. Our healthcare records outlive us. It's time to decide what happens to the data once we're gone.
  13. Don't listen to the rich: inequality is bad for everyone
  14. A 20-minute city sounds good, but becoming one is a huge challenge
  15. Living blanket, water diviner, wild pet: a cultural history of the dingo
  16. Australia doesn't 'get' the environmental challenges faced by Pacific Islanders
  17. How a charter of rights could protect Australians' fundamental freedoms
  18. Liberals face crunch on marriage as Coalition behind in 17th consecutive Newspoll
  19. Poor households are locked out of green energy, unless governments help
  20. Queensland Galaxy 51-49 to Labor, but Palaszczuk's ratings slump
  21. Allegations against the CBA show the need for a Royal Commission into the banks
  22. NAPLAN results show it isn’t the basics that are missing in Australian education
  23. Trump-Turnbull call: trading people like pawns undermines the goals of international co-operation
  24. The dangers of leaving home: UK WannaCry ransomware hero arrested in the US
  25. Bottom of the canal: Pfizer's billion-dollar tax ploy
  26. Turnbull's promise to Trump: 'You can count on me'
  27. Climate change to blame for Australia's July heat
  28. Transcript of Trump-Turnbull call shows just how hard it'll be to deal with the president
  29. Another attack on the Bureau, but top politicians have stopped listening to climate change denial
  30. Why anecdotes aren't strong evidence when it comes to quitting smoking
  31. Country rules: the ‘splinternet’ may be the future of the web
  32. The Goldwater rule prevents psychiatrists diagnosing Trump from afar but some say there's too much at stake
  33. Five quotes from the Turnbull-Trump call show the folly of Australia's refugee policy
  34. Greg Hunt's plan to reduce hospital admissions won't work if he can't measure successes and failures
  35. Cricket pay saga a case study in how not to resolve industrial disputes in sport
  36. Friday essay: the photographer, the island and half a million lifejackets
  37. When it comes to sport, boys 'play like a girl'
  38. The right to bare arms: the history of Australian sex worker activism
  39. How do you know that what you know is true? That's epistemology
  40. Computer says no: robo-advice is growing but we still don't trust it
  41. As a coastal defence, the Great Barrier Reef’s value to communities goes way beyond tourism
  42. The Wonderful Weirdness of 'You're Not Alone'
  43. Grattan on Friday: Marriage on the rocks in divided Liberal Party
  44. Turnbull to tell power companies: do better by customers
  45. Politics podcast: Tiernan Brady on same-sex marriage showdown
  46. Australia has ignored black viewpoints before – why would a constitutional 'voice' be any different?
  47. ABC News' long-form journalism pays off on Twitter
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