Gender equality
- Opinion
- Opinion
Closing the gender gap’s a real pain. Period
Medical misogyny is real, but a campaign about women’s pain – if that’s what it is – sponsored by a painkiller company seems patronising and tokenistic.
- Cherie Gilmour
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Hundreds rally outside Parliament House to protest LNP trans youth ban
The event in Brisbane was one of 20 held across the nation calling on the Queensland government to reinstate health care for trans youth.
- Courtney Kruk
Texts, lies and videotape: Making sense of the Blake Lively-Justin Baldoni case
It’s the highest profile celebrity feud we’ve seen for years and – more than ever – it pays to be sceptical about what you hear.
- Kerrie O'Brien
- Cricket Briefing
- Australian cricket
Head gives up T20 gigs for Australia duty; Refugee cricketers send a message to the Taliban
Travis Head has agreed to give up Twenty20 franchise opportunities outside the Big Bash League and the IPL, while the Afghanistan women cricketers who take the field in Melbourne this week know their game is about more than runs and wickets.
- Jon Pierik and Daniel Brettig
What to know about Trump’s ‘two-sex’ executive order
Donald Trump said his gender-related executive orders were aimed at ending efforts to “socially engineer race and gender into every aspect of public and private life”.
‘National disrepute’: Equal prizemoney advocate denied entry in surf competition
Lucy Small has been denied entry to the 2025 Noosa Festival of Surfing for comments made to the media that organisers say were false.
- Frances Howe
- Opinion
- Opinion
These wowser women aren’t obvious feminist heroes. But their rallying cry rings through the ages
Exactly 130 years ago, women in South Australia were granted the right to vote. It was the culmination of a crusade against the demon drink, and family violence.
- Justine Toh
Wendy learnt to sail from a kids’ book. Now she’s taking on a notorious stretch of water for the 17th time
Skipper Wendy Tuck has sailed around the world, but never takes the Bass Strait for granted.
- Tim Barlass
- Opinion
- Feminism
Wicked unveils the tyranny of feminine niceness – and that’s why your daughters must see it
The new blockbuster movie of the stage show Wicked calculates the cost of female niceness and has radical things to say about the way women are cast into rigid roles.
- Jacqueline Maley
- Opinion
- Medical Misogyny
‘We offer anaesthetic but only men need it’: The persistent myth about pain
Do women or men have a higher threshold for pain? It’s a question that raises a number of problems with Australia’s medical system.
- Wendy Tuohy
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