Gender

Seven-year-old Jack Woog loves dancing, Taylor Swift and wearing dresses. His mum, Kayte Woog, of Sydney, reveals her journey from niggling unease, to total acceptance of his flamboyance. The day before my son, Jack, started Big School, I went to him with my nail polish remover. I told him that I had to remove his […]

If I had a dollar for every time someone asked me “Aren’t you going to try for a boy?”, well … I may not be a rich woman, but I’d have had a fair few free lunches by now. I’m the mother of two girls, and no, I am not going to ever try for […]

It is a truth universally acknowledged that men can’t do more than one thing at a time — but a new study has challenged this long held belief, proving men are actually better at multitasking than women. The controversial research — which will be published in prestigious US journal Psychological Science — claims that hormones […]

As commentators continue to rage over the sexism debate, an international survey has found that Australian women are the world’s most economically advanced. Topping a list of 128 countries, women in Australia won out in access to education, market participation and anti-discrimination policies. Following Australia were three Scandinavian countries — Norway, Sweden and Finland, with […]

A Chinese octogenarian has decided to undergo a sex change aged 84. Qian Jinfan was born a boy in Jiaxing, south of Shanghai. He rose to become a mid-ranking government official in Foshan, Guangdong province, and married when he was 54. In 2008, just after his 80th birthday, he decided he wanted to become a […]

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While women are assumed to be the bigger spenders of the household and less fond of budgeting their finances than men, there was little evidence to support this preconception — until now.

RECENTLY at a business awards night for a local women’s group on the Central Coast in New South Wales — I was at a very entertaining table with some interesting girls. All of them run their own businesses and most of them are pretty successful. The topic of why we go to women’s networking events […]