Gender equality
- Opinion
- Opinion
Year 9s were asked if women should stay in the kitchen. People were outraged. I wasn’t
Just because the tradwife concept is anathema to feminists like me doesn’t mean we shouldn’t interrogate why women are drawn to its simplistic promises.
- Jacqueline Maley
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- Opinion
- Opinion
Gilead rising: In Trump’s America, misogyny has found a powerful toehold
Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth has endorsed a Christian pastor who wrote that “unsubmissive” women are a “truly destructive force”. They’re now saying the quiet bit out loud.
- Julia Baird
- Investigation
- Medical misogyny
Fatima was left for hours in extreme pain awaiting treatment. She almost lost her ovary
Complex medical cases are being missed in Australia’s emergency departments, resulting in agonising pain, traumatising surgeries and infertility.
- Carrie Fellner
- Opinion
- Culture wars
A MAGA influencer tried to be a tradwife in Australia. It almost broke her
Lauren Southern moved with her husband from Canada, where she’d grown up, to Australia where, she says, she lived in near-total isolation.
- Michelle Goldberg
Hegseth reposts video of pastors saying women shouldn’t be allowed to vote
The repost on X from the US defence secretary illustrates his deep, personal connection to a Christian nationalist pastor with extreme views on the role of religion and women.
- Konstantin Toropin
- Opinion
- Sexism
The end of men? We need to put an end to that
Hanna Rosin saw it coming: the social and economic isolation of males. I called her before her visit to Australia in the coming days.
- Parnell Palme McGuinness
- Exclusive
- Melbourne childcare crisis
‘They’ve sent a male’: Childcare centres shadow-ban men
Male early learning educators say they are being stood down, dismissed from casual pools or having their work placements cancelled.
- Nicole Precel
- Opinion
- Workplace culture
Kiss Cam whammy made us chuckle, but it has triggered my bonk ban fixation
Workplace romances are almost always a bad idea. I’ve observed my share of HR (human relations) disasters.
- Jenna Price
- Exclusive
- Public transport
How ‘boys club’ at Sydney Trains puts female workmates at risk of harm
A confidential report contains personal accounts that are damning of the male-dominated workplace at the country’s largest passenger rail operator.
- Matt O'Sullivan
- Exclusive
- Home loans
Jennifer bought a home. But buyers like her face an $85,000 penalty
She’s not alone in finding high property prices a challenge, but new modelling lays bare how the playing field is stacked.
- Caroline Zielinski