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Want a better relationship? Do your fair share of the housework.

The common behaviour that can badly damage your relationship (and how to fix it)

It’s a source of tension between couples in many households, causing resentment and frustration on both sides. But there are ways of solving this all-too-common issue.

  • Jelena Kecmanovic

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Jana Pittman competing at the 2004 Olympic Games, and as a doctor today.

As an Olympian, mum and doctor, I know our health system fails women

I’ve had patients who’ve been told, and I’ve been told, that pain is “just part of being a woman”.

  • Jana Pittman
Miss, Miss, Miss ... what’s in an honorific?

Am I a Miss, Ms or Mrs? This teacher’s had some near Misses

Women have enough decisions to make, let alone choosing which cultural undertones they want attached to their names.

  • Cherie Gilmour
Appropriate workwear is a persistent barrier for women in trades, particularly in industries like welding which require specialist gear.

Tradie Katie doesn’t want special treatment. She wants one ‘basic’ fixed

There is a range of barriers for women entering – and remaining – in trades, but a simple change could go a long way to create safer, more inclusive workplaces.

  • Lauren Ironmonger
On the 2026 Bluesfest line-up … the band 19-Twenty.

This Bluesfest is a dudefest. Of 35 acts, just five are women

I scrolled down the line-up page, excited to find any female acts. I kept scrolling.

  • Katie McMurray
Man up, women … or are we not so different in the long run.

How I learnt to harden up and appreciate masculine virtues

We’ve had Venus and Mars and that distant planet called toxic masculinity, but in my attempt to “man up” as a trail runner I found common ground between the sexes.

  • Jacqueline Maley
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Julia Baird lunching over Skype on her verandah.

Here I am, yet another woman wrecking the joint

A great masthead dared to ask: Did women ruin the workplace? Well, let’s dance on some of those smoking ruins.

  • Julia Baird
“Did women ruin the workplace?” To say that women from the across the globe shot back at this question from the New York Times is an understatement.

Did women ruin the workplace? The dangerous irony of The New York Times’ viral opinion piece

Women are gossipy and overly emotional, and so, as they take over more businesses, they are a threat, according to one writer. To say that women across the globe shot back is an understatement.

  • Jacqueline Maley
Sussan Ley at a short press conference on Friday.

Now for the good news on women in politics: Australia is a beacon to the world

While Sussan Ley’s leadership is under siege, the women of Australian politics are showing that representation is truly achievable.

  • Licia Heath
Australia is still 17 points away from achieving perfect gender equality in the workplace.

The age when pay equality for women gets much worse

How does the country score on a scale from 0 to 100? A world-first index lays bare the inequalities Australian women face at work – beyond the pay gap.

  • Millie Muroi

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