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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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Opinion: Girls can have it all: how to stop the damaging gender stereotyping in schools

03 Nov 2015

Professor Dame Athene Donald (Cavendish Laboratory) discusses actions that schools can take to eradicate unnecessary gender stereotyping.

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Congratulations, Graduates!

Big data shows the graduate pay premium is bigger for women

25 Sep 2015

Anna Vignoles (Faculty of Education), together with colleagues at the Institute for Fiscal Studies and Harvard University, authors a study that finds...

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Cambridge gets REAL about overcoming obstacles to global education

18 Jun 2015

The Research for Equitable Access and Learning (REAL) Centre aims to promote education as an engine for sustainable development.

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Scales of Justice

Refusal to abolish ‘archaic’ rule means gender discrimination is still law in the UK

20 May 2015

In 2010, Parliament voted in favour of abolishing a rule that assumes men but not women intend to give property to family, as part of the then UK...

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Woman working on a "Vengeance" dive bomber Tennessee, February 1943

Women’s professional self-identity impacts on childcare balance, but not men’s

17 Jul 2014

Research shows that a mother’s self-identity impacts on the amount of time her partner spends on childcare – with strong professional identity in...

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Rarely Seen in the US of A

When gender roles are reversed: equality and intimacy at home and in the workplace

07 Apr 2014

In a paper prepared for the workshop “Gender, Equality and Intimacy: (Un)comfortable Bedfellows?” at the Institute of Education today – Cambridge...

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Overview of average regional sex differences in grey matter volume. Areas of larger volumes in women are in red and areas of larger volume in men are in blue.

Males and females differ in specific brain structures

11 Feb 2014

New study examines thousands of brains from two decades of research to reveal differences between male and female brain structure.

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Yamada following the disaster. Homepage banner image taken in Ofunato by Petty Officer 1st Class Matthew Bradley in 2011, via Flickr

Rescuing normality: Day-to-day life inside Japan’s disaster shelters

08 Nov 2013

Life inside Japan’s disaster shelters following the 2011 earthquake, tsunami and Fukushima disaster has been revealed by the only researcher to stay...

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Still from the film "Darwin's Women".

Darwin’s women

09 Sep 2013

On matters of gender, Charles Darwin was supposedly an arch-conservative - but new research suggests that he actively helped women who were striving...

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Inna Shevchenko of Femen

“Nudity does not liberate me and I do not need saving”

26 Jul 2013

When radical feminists took their cause from Europe to North Africa, the outcome was a deepening of the divides they sought to break down. Social...

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Charles Darwin

Darwin’s ‘forgotten women’ celebrated on International Women's Day

08 Mar 2013

Forgotten female correspondents of Charles Darwin; women who all made substantive contributions to nineteenth century society, are to be brought from...

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