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Preference for boys is fading among regions where it was strongest at a rapid rate.

Phew, it’s a girl! The stunning decline of the preference for having boys

Millions of girls were aborted simply for being girls. Now parents often lean towards them.

  • The Economist

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Police Minister Yasmin Catley answers a question in the NSW Legislative Assembly this week.

‘A sexist man’: Catley slams Speakman after he calls her ‘hysterical’

The NSW Liberal leader made the comments on the same day he slammed a Victorian party elder for claiming Liberal women were “sufficiently assertive”.

  • Penry Buckley and Alexandra Smith
“ I encourage assertive women to join the Liberal Party”: Sussan Ley.

Assertive women should join the Liberals: Sussan Ley slams reverse quota suggestion

Former Victorian treasurer Alan Stockdale has been widely criticised for his comments about women.

  • Alexandra Smith
Alan Stockdale raised eyebrows at the NSW Liberal Women’s Council meeting.

How to annoy Liberal women. Tell them they are ‘sufficiently assertive’

Former Victorian treasurer Alan Stockdale and former Victorian senator Richard Alston fronted the NSW Liberal Women’s Council on Tuesday night to argue why they should continue to run the troubled division.

  • Alexandra Smith
Sexist dinosaurs still walk the halls of some offices.

My sexist manager treats the women in my office appallingly. Should we walk out?

When the leadership team is turning a blind eye to discriminatory behaviour, Dr Kirstin Ferguson says there is power in numbers.

  • Kirstin Ferguson

What happens to men who have caused harm to women?

Dyson Heydon was found to have sexually harassed six young female associates. So why is he being publicly rehabilitated?

  • Chanel Contos
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Host of The Pocket podcast, Chris Griffin.

This man wants women to have more ‘feminine energy’. Be careful what you wish for

Last week, an Australian podcaster declared that he doesn’t want his girlfriend to work unless she chooses to. Unfortunately, his generosity is rooted in gendered gripes.

  • Katy Hall
Sussan Ley has been named leader of the Liberal Party. She is the first woman to ever hold the position.

Women have won the Liberal Party battle. Now we need to win the war

This is not the first time our party has been at this crossroads. But it is the first time we have turned in the right direction.

  • Charlotte Mortlock

Politics is still a man’s world. Let’s reimagine the law of this jungle

The absence of women in key political debates has led many of us to turn down the sound and disengage. The natural world may offer a template for change.

  • Julia Baird
Transgender rights activists demonstrate outside the Victorian parliament in 2022.

Police invoke powers to unmask disruptors as women’s rights rally returns to scene of neo-Nazi stunt

Tough search-and-arrest powers will be in force on Saturday around state parliament, where trans-rights activists plan to disrupt a women’s rights rally which last year was crashed by right-wing extremists.

  • Chip Le Grand

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