women in society

A private matter between a woman and her vending machine?

Mary Rice Hasson | 15 February 2012 |

tags: morning after pill, universities

Developments on a university campus suggest it is time for the Supreme Court to update its famous definition of abortion.

Pink Lego

Rebekah Hebbert | 08 February 2012 |

tags: childhood, feminism, play

Why are feminists throwing their toys out of the cot over a victory for girl power?

Unnatural Selection

Jennifer Roback Morse | 06 February 2012 |

tags: books, sex selective abortion

A book by a pro-choice feminist faces up to an unintended consequence of the West's fertility war.

7 reasons why “Merry Christmas” will always beat “Season’s Greetings”

Michael Cook | 20 December 2011 |

tags: Christmas

Don’t let Grinches steal your Christmas by substituting meaningless slogans.

The parental happiness curve

W. Bradford Wilcox and Elizabeth Marquardt | 19 December 2011 |

tags: marriage, parenthood, religion

Why are parents with four-plus children happier, on average, than those with just a couple?

Nunsense about the pill

Alex Perrottet | 09 December 2011 |

tags: breast cancer, Catholic Church, contraception

Why the hazards of nulliparity in the cloister have nothing to do with the Vatican.

Abortion and mental health: science vs politics

Priscilla K. Coleman | 23 November 2011 |

tags: abortion-mental health link, scientific research

Publication in a leading psychiatry journal did not prevent a barrage of criticism for the author of a study showing the mental health risks of abortion.

Bad shot: when will WHO warn women about the contraceptive jab?

Carolyn Moynihan | 28 October 2011 |

tags: Africa, contraception, demography, HIVAIDS, WHO

The latest strong evidence that hormonal contraception is linked with AIDS finds experts still dallying.

Bringing up baby

Angela Shanahan | 27 October 2011 |

tags: childcare, motherhood, parenting

Why are there more than 900 books on baby care in print in Australia?

The science of eggsploitation

Richard Egan | 11 October 2011 |

tags: human cloning, hyperovulation, stem cell research

Human cloning researchers pay women to risk death so they can pursue their doomed experiments.

In the pink

Matthew Hanley | 04 October 2011 |

tags: breast cancer

Even the NFL supports Breast Cancer Awareness Month. But why is everyone ignoring some of the biggest risk factors?

Margaret Ogola: an African heroine

Carolyn Moynihan | 30 September 2011 |

tags: Africa, AIDS, heroines

One of four distinguished Kenyan women who died recently was a doctor who spent herself on the welfare of AIDS victims and strengthening the African family.

Twilight on the moors

Carolyn Moynihan | 27 September 2011 |

tags: feminism, literature, romantic fiction

Why does generation after generation return to a romantic novel written by the daughter of a Victorian clergyman?

Spanish mothers, families and children’s happiness

Carolyn Moynihan | 20 September 2011 |

tags: child wellbeing, family values, materialism

A UNICEF report throws more light than it intends on problems in British family life.

Can contraception make America better?

Carolyn Moynihan | 26 August 2011 |

tags: contraception, Obamacare, sexual revolution

The Obama administration thinks it can, but it has completely misdiagnosed the illness.

Contraceptive mandate is a boon for Big Pharma

Bob Laird | 25 August 2011 |

tags: Big Pharma, contraception, Obamacare

Why is President Obama giving drug companies such an easy ride?

Two women of character

Carolyn Moynihan | 09 August 2011 |

tags: Bernadine P. Healy, Nancy Wake, obituaries

War heroines and committed professionals are both necessary to civilisation.

Home truths for a liberal society

Sergio Belardinelli | 04 August 2011 |

tags: democracy, family, liberalism

The family is the place where society nurtures the values essential for an ordered civic life.

Household economics 101: human capital

Michael-Burkhard Piorkowsky | 07 June 2011 |

tags: economics, housework, human capital

If other social institutions had to perform the tasks of the home, society would immediately collapse.

Outsourcing parenting in Sweden

Jonas Himmelstrand | 13 May 2011 |

tags: childcare, family policy, Sweden

Is the Nordic country really a model for good family policy?

There are perks to being middle-aged

Joanna Bogle | 09 May 2011 |

tags: ageing, personal testimony, women

Like sitting quietly in a pub, reading and eating fish-and-chips.