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Queenwood Senior Girls School year 9 students Evie Davis, Sonia Punter and Chloe Abbott attended a pelvic pain workshop yesterday at the school in Mosman. MARCH 21, 2025. Photo: Max Mason-Hubers

This program is helping girls stay in school, but NSW students are missing out

NSW is the only state that doesn’t fund endometriosis and pain workshops for public school students despite research revealing one in four girls miss classes due to period pain.

  • Emily Kaine and Angus Thomson

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Courtney Rattle has spent her life battling anorexia, she is now a mother to a nine-month-old daughter, Anya.

‘Absolutely brutal’: The hidden group at risk of eating disorders

Pregnancy and menopause are close behind puberty as high-risk periods for eating disorders and body image issues in women. So why isn’t more help available?

  • Lauren Ironmonger
Eman Allouche battled severe body image issues as a teenager and similar thoughts returned after she had a baby.

‘It took a toll’: Body dysmorphia hurts more than self-esteem

New research shows that body dysmorphia can lead to cognitive difficulties and hurts decision-making and planning.

  • Broede Carmody
The state government has pledged $42.3 million for IVF treatment.

Cheaper IVF and endometriosis treatments on PBS pledged by Labor

Thousands of Australian women will soon save hundreds – and in some cases, thousands – of dollars a year for fertility, contraception and endometriosis treatments under an ALP pledge.

  • Millie Muroi
Shifra Bendet, with dogs Bruno, Ollie and Piper, says freezing her eggs around eight years ago took the pressure off making choices around her fertility.

Shifra’s frozen eggs will reach a legal expiry date. What happens to them when time runs out?

Many early adopters of egg freezing are not well-informed about the emotional and psychological realities of disposing of unused eggs when their deadline is up.

  • Wendy Tuohy
With surgical enhancement to breasts – a powerful erogenous zone – “a woman may gain the power to elicit male desire, but in so doing she relegates herself to the erotic sidelines.”

Forget ‘crowd-pleasing’ breasts – for more joy, focus on feeling: a surgeon’s view

A doctor contemplates what is, she believes, the most exploited – and serially underestimated – female body part of all.

  • Gabriel Weston
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Opposition Leader Peter Dutton.

Despite forceful WFH agenda, Dutton makes pledge to women voters

The opposition leader has promised female voters there won’t be an American-style reversal of women’s rights if he becomes prime minister.

  • Sylvia Jeffreys
Paul Rudd stars in Living With Yourself on Netflix.

Why watching male celebrities struggle has become my new online obsession

Upon first glance, I have nothing in common with Paul Rudd, Jake Gyllenhaal or Glen Powell. Yet despite our many differences, in one respect, we’re the same.

  • Wendy Syfret
Moz Sweeney has instituted a news blackout in her home to safeguard her family’s mental health.

‘What if that happens here?’: The Australian women dreading change in Trump’s America

As the Trump administration rolls out its agenda, there is fear and anxiety among Australian women and services are bracing for “an escalation of abuse”.

  • Mercedes Maguire
Sarah Gulyamova with her daughter Mahler, 5, and Ivar, 3.

The women who face a higher risk of early death but don’t know it

Sarah thought surviving her high-risk birth was the end of her troubles. Then a flyer stuck to a hospital wall revealed her lifelong burden.

  • Emily Kaine and Kate Aubusson

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