Society & Culture

Sexism and misogyny harm women in many obvious ways. Women experience economic, workforce and health-care disadvantages, intimate partner violence, gendered violence in public places, and street harassment. Women are also faced with denials gender inequality still exists in 2019. Some people presume anti-discrimination legislation, equal pay, and ensuring motherhood is not a barrier to workforce [...]

Kathleen Gallagher, University of Toronto Today’s young people deserve to be heard. But, because of all of our technological distractions and polarized political systems, listening to others is becoming increasingly difficult. Philosopher and political scientist Roman Krznaric recently wrote an eloquent column on the harrowing prospects of “short-termism” for young people. My research has delivered [...]

This BBC article profiles a group of teens who are making great strides in social, political and environmental arenas. Greta Thunberg is a Swedish teen activist has become a leading voice for climate change activism. Malala Yousafzai wrote and published an anonymous diary about her life in Pakistan under Taliban rule when she was just [...]

An experimental pilot program that aims to encourage kids to do what once came naturally, and go 'free-range' around the neighbourhood, has taken place in Queensland. The program, which took place late last year in two Caboolture estates, Riverbank and Rangeview, encouraged kids to go outside and play with their neighbours, according to an ABC [...]

Frances Flanagan, University of Sydney This is an edited extract from The New Disruptors, the 64th edition of Griffith Review. It is a little longer than most published on The Conversation. It is supposed to be a test of character. An A+ student sits down to the final exam of his degree and is surprised [...]