Women are 34 times more likely to queue for the loo,while men are flush with options

Women are 34 times more likely to queue for the loo,while men are flush with options

Women and girls constitute more than half the population,require the toilet more frequently and take longer in it. Yet buildings usually have more facilities for men. What can be done?

  • byMadeleine Heffernan

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Sally Rooney’s new book is out in a few days. So,is it any good?

Sally Rooney’s new book is out in a few days. So,is it any good?

Like her previous novels,Intermezzo is a very straight,very white,very middle-class and unproductively hyped love story. But something’s different this time.

  • byBeejay Silcox
This woman helped police bring the first coercive control charge

This woman helped police bring the first coercive control charge

As Federal Circuit and Family Court director,Hayley Foster’s job is to make people “uncomfortable” as she helps the court respond to family violence cases.

  • byAmber Schultz
Remember their faces:Women killed in Australia
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Remember their faces:Women killed in Australia

An Australian woman was killed every four days in the first half of 2024. Many lives were lost in recent years. Some cases featured are still before the courts.

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Former right-wing senator,Sky News host may get cabinet role if LNP wins power,MP suggests

Former right-wing senator,Sky News host may get cabinet role if LNP wins power,MP suggests

Although denied by leader David Crisafulli,speculation has been rife that former conservative senator Amanda Stoker could be parachuted into an LNP cabinet.

  • byMatt Dennien
Part-time on way out as Australians opt for ‘flexible work’ instead

Part-time on way out as Australians opt for ‘flexible work’ instead

Women are voting with their feet in a move to flexible full-time rather than traditional part-time work,a significant snapshot of Australian workplaces reveals.

  • byHamish Hastie
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Flexible work is a business benefit – and looks like it’s here to stay
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Flexible work is a business benefit – and looks like it’s here to stay

There have always been good and bad aspects to part-time work. But its nature has changed significantly recently – and it’s potentially to employees’ benefit.

  • byAlan Duncan
Morrison-era minister Greg Hunt pushes Liberals to pick more women
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Morrison-era minister Greg Hunt pushes Liberals to pick more women

A key internal pressure group has made its first call for gender quotas as the party’s most senior woman urges female voters to give her party “another look-in”.

  • byPaul Sakkal
Masculinity politics:How Donald Trump is courting the bro vote

Masculinity politics:How Donald Trump is courting the bro vote

A constellation of YouTubers,pranksters and streamers who influence young men is helping Trump win the “manoverse”.

  • byJohn Branch
Is India a safe place for women? Another brutal killing raises the question

Is India a safe place for women? Another brutal killing raises the question

The scourge of sexual violence in one of the world’s fastest-growing nations has spurred widespread protests.

  • byAnupreeta Das andSameer Yasir
Trans director’s inner ‘atom bomb’ inspires a ’90s-style horror fantasy

Trans director’s inner ‘atom bomb’ inspires a ’90s-style horror fantasy

Jane Schoenbrun’s Buffy-infused I Saw the TV Glow may look nostalgic but it’s anything but warm and fuzzy.

  • byKarl Quinn