Selfless,not selfish:Women who freeze their eggs happy to donate them

Selfless,not selfish:Women who freeze their eggs happy to donate them

Young women who chose to freeze their eggs were once dubbed “selfish careerists”,a myth busted by new research showing most now intend to donate their eggs to other women.

  • byWendy Tuohy

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The graph that shows Australia’s emerging fertility problem

The graph that shows Australia’s emerging fertility problem

Australia’s fragmented IVF sector is ill-equipped to keep up with rising demand,according to a sweeping review co-authored by former health minister Greg Hunt.

  • byAngus Thomson
‘IVF is changing’:Why more women are freezing their eggs
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‘IVF is changing’:Why more women are freezing their eggs

When Jaimie Gardner first froze her eggs in 2021,she joined a growing cohort of women taking their fertility into their own hands.

  • byAngus Thomson
China’s population keeps falling. This is why

China’s population keeps falling. This is why

The generation of women born in the era of the Chinese Communist Party’s one-child policy are having few,if any,children.

  • byLisa Visentin
How tattoos became the ultimate conversation starter about miscarriage

How tattoos became the ultimate conversation starter about miscarriage

While it was once taboo to discuss pregnancy loss,people are now choosing to commemorate their grief openly.

  • byFrances Howe
I knew very little about menopause. What I learnt made me joyful,fit and foxy

I knew very little about menopause. What I learnt made me joyful,fit and foxy

In 2017,I was not aware of any “loud voices” in the menopause awareness space. Nor did I know there were readily accessible treatments for what I was experiencing. I’m wiser and happier now.

  • byKerry Fox
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Is menopause killing women’s work,or is ‘garbage data’ trashing the brand? A Senate inquiry must decide

Is menopause killing women’s work,or is ‘garbage data’ trashing the brand? A Senate inquiry must decide

Claims that large numbers of women are quitting the workforce early because menopause is not supported are unfounded and being pushed as fact,risking women’s economic security,critics say.

  • byWendy Tuohy
The doctor who took on Goop and the biggest threat to women’s health

The doctor who took on Goop and the biggest threat to women’s health

Seven years after gynaecologist Dr Jen Gunter wrote a seething open letter to Gwyneth Paltrow,women are still being bombarded with misinformation about their own bodies.

  • byKate Aubusson
In their own words:Why Perth people aren’t having more babies

In their own words:Why Perth people aren’t having more babies

Young people are not popping out babies like their parents once routinely did. What’s happened to the desire to be a mum or a dad? We hit the streets to find out.

  • byMark Naglazas
Baby recession grips Perth as births drop to lowest level in two decades

Baby recession grips Perth as births drop to lowest level in two decades

Perth’s birth rate is the lowest it’s been since 2006,and it has not seen such a sharp fall in births since the contraceptive pill was introduced in the 1970s.

  • bySarah Brookes
Sydney’s ‘baby recession’:Where births have plunged most

Sydney’s ‘baby recession’:Where births have plunged most

This map reveals the suburbs with Sydney’s lowest fertility rates.

  • byMatt Wade