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Backlash and gender fatigue. Why progress on gender equality has slowed

  • Written by Sue Williamson, Senior Lecturer, Human Resource Management, UNSW Canberra, UNSW
Backlash and gender fatigue. Why progress on gender equality has slowedPink pussy hats are out at International Women's Day events, but they are facing opposition.Mark Dixon/Wikimedia, CC BY

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 have been named as...

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