Opinion

The power of numbers in the battle for gender equality

Jenna Price
Updated July 2 2021 - 1:34am, first published September 20 2019 - 3:00am

Numbers, as Theodore Porter put it so well in his 1996 classic Trust in numbers: The pursuit of objectivity in science and public life, are anything but neutral. They have weight, impact, are hotly contested. They also have incredible power.

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Jenna Price

Jenna Price is a Canberra Times columnist and a visiting fellow at the Australian National University.

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