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Women belong in the kitchen. Discuss.

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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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

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
Far-right Canadian YouTuber Lauren Southern says she is “merely a conservative”.

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
US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth

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
Author Hanna Rosin at The Atlantic Festival last year.

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
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Ramesh Shrestha says male early educators are facing discrimination and having shifts cancelled due to the allegations that Joshua Brown sexually abused children in his care.

‘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
Astronomer CEO Andy Byron was caught allegedly having an affair with his company’s chief people officer at a Coldplay concert.

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
Sydney trains

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
Jennifer Dowd. 52, recently bought her first home in Sydney’s inner-west.

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