Gender Roles

After three decades of living with weaponised incompetence, the final straw was coming home from holiday without a single picture of myself in our camera roll.

Female teachers are being sworn at, sexually harassed and physically threatened in high schools by male students. They say young men are bringing the misogynistic ideas of Andrew Tate and other online influencers into the classroom. 

A report has found Hobart City Council staff breached anti-discrimination laws by lying to councillor Louise Elliot about the availability of a venue for a planned event about "the impact" of transgender women in women's sports.

From cash payments and extended parental leave to subsidised education, some of Asia's largest economies are spending millions to try to get people to have children and reverse declining fertility rates.

As this country anguishes about how to stop the horrifying level of targeted male violence against women, men must step in to prevent toxic misogynists like Andrew Tate from infecting young minds.

Despite pledges made by major galleries to address gender inequity, male artists are still over-represented in solo shows in state and commercial galleries and major museums. 

Rural Australia has more men than women, but in this outback town in Western Australia women are dominating senior community roles.

The elevation of Kim Jong Un's female relatives coincides with the growing economic and social power of women living inside secretive North Korea. 

This cartoon of a Victorian council's first female leader has fallen flat with women's advocates but the Australian Cartoonists Association says it is a depiction of the phrase "a new broom sweeps clean". 

Hannah Gadsby's Netflix special Gender Agenda platformed trans and genderqueer comedians from around the world. So who are the Australian comedians breaking the gender mould?

After enduring countless sexist insults, 15-year-old Mia Murphy and her friend decided to call out the haters in a creative way, in Melbourne's Hosier Lane.

Transgender woman Roxanne Tickle alleges the CEO of Giggle for Girls ran a two-year "public campaign" against her after being removed from the app. 

The Vatican declares sex reassignment operations and surrogacy as grave threats to human "dignity", putting them on par with abortion and euthanasia as practices that violate God's plan for human life.

From cancelled weddings to getting disowned by parents, these South Asian comedians are reclaiming their shame through Brown Women Comedy.

A lecturer from the University of WA says a recently secured pay rise for aged care workers is unlikely to change the way the sector is valued, and that more work to address unconscious bias is required.

When Avery began taking the male hormone testosterone at 27 to medically transition, he experienced hair loss.

With fewer than 4 per cent of Australian-born women working as engineers, the push to recruit more females into STEM careers is building.

The peak body for GPs says female doctors are earning less than their male colleagues because they're more likely to take on appointments for things like mental health and antenatal care, which attract lower bulk billing incentives.

Government data shows women earn on average 21.7 per cent less than men, but will data show the real picture of pay disparity if it doesn't include small businesses?

Tahlia Quinlivan is vastly outnumbered by men in her workplace, but that only spurs her drive to succeed. She says women in her field are smashing down barriers, creating more diverse and compassionate workplaces.

Would you hold a gender reveal party for your unborn child? Diversity advocates are urging expectant parents not to place undue emphasis on the sex of their infants.

The world has progressed in many ways, but in 2023 many women fear parenthood more than ever before, with the belief that their career and baby won't co-exist. 

Despite cultural preference for sons in some Asian societies, researchers from Monash University Malaysia found that living with daughters is positively associated with happiness in old age. 

Recent research has found men are more than twice as likely to own an electric vehicle. It's a trend that's got experts concerned.

When Luis Rubiales grabbed Jenni Hermoso's face and kissed her on the lips during post-match celebrations at Stadium Australia, Spaniards were forced to pick a side, and start a national conversation about chauvinism.