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Girl, boy

Boy, girl... or intersex? Law and gender

19 Oct 2017

Boy or girl? This is one of the first questions all new parents are asked. In a small percentage of cases, the answer isn’t straightforward: the...

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Pride London Parade, July 2011

Let’s celebrate Pride – and let our young people be proud, too

07 Jul 2017

At the end of June, the charity Stonewall produced a report along with Cambridge’s Centre for Family Research into the experiences of lesbian, gay...

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Opinion: Would gender differences exist if we treated all people the same from birth?

22 Nov 2016

Joe Herbert, Emeritus Professor of Neuroscience, explores what we mean by 'gender identity' and asks whether we should insist on an equal gender...

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Workplace team business meeting

Opinion: What men would do to fix the workplace equality gap

25 Oct 2016

Jill Armstrong (Murray Edwards College) discusses her research on the behaviours and perceptions of men regarding women's workplace experiences.

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 40+333 Chores

Opinion: More women are running the world, so why aren't more men doing the dishes?

23 Sep 2016

The number of women in global leadership positions continues to increase, but the change seems one-sided, writes Dr Alice Evans (Geography) on The...

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Stolen World War Two letters help author uncover the hidden lives of army wives

09 Sep 2016

A stolen chest of letters – penned by an army wife to her husband on the battlefields of the Second World War – has helped a Cambridge academic and...

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Mexican Caste Paintings from the 18th century

When beauty matters: the politics of how we look

25 Aug 2016

Questions of beauty and its politics will be discussed at a summer school and conference next week (30 August to 3 September 2016). Participants will...

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Jessica Ennis

Aesthetics over athletics when it comes to women in sport

12 Aug 2016

Men are two to three times more likely than women to be mentioned when it comes to discussing sport and sporting achievement, according to new...

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Opinion: Women are far more anxious than men – here’s the science

10 Jun 2016

Olivia Remes (Cambridge Institute of Public Health) discusses why women are almost twice as likely to experience anxiety as men.

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Reading the face of a leader

10 May 2016

Women (but not men) with both high and low facial masculinity are perceived as competitive leaders, finds new study co-authored by a Cambridge Judge...

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Uthman Ibrahim-Morrison at prayer in Norwich, 2016

Male converts to Islam: landmark report examines conversion experience of British Muslims

03 Feb 2016

The experiences of British male converts to Islam have been captured in a unique report launched today by the University of Cambridge.

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Sacramento Pride Parade, supporting the LGBT community, June 15 2013. The new study highlights the leadership of many Churches in the United States in shifting the balance of Christian attitudes towards trans people.

Global Christian attitudes towards transgenderism “softening”, study suggests

02 Dec 2015

A mapping exercise examining the positions of major Christian denominations on transgender identities suggests that a growing number of Churches...

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