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Kiwis 'most likely' to hide sexuality

More young Kiwis are hiding their sexuality than anywhere else in the world, a ground-breaking homophobia study shows.

Herald on Sunday editorial: Good keen blokes find coming out tough

A global study found that NZ has the highest number of 22-year-old males hiding they are gay and the second-highest number of lesbians concealing their sexuality.

Firm's use of nudity in ads slammed

An engineering firm that has a topless calendar and uses a bikini-clad model on the back of a delivery truck has been blasted as sexist by top scientist, Dr Michelle Dickinson.

Baltimore must go soul-searching

A few years ago, I was returning by car to Washington from Baltimore when I took a wrong turn and got lost.

Catriona MacLennan: #YesAllWomen face harassment

I was asking an American professor a complicated question about Anzus in a university lecture theatre when he started stroking my leg, writes Catriona MacLennan.

Dita Be Boni: Yes minister, please do something

I looked back through the archives to see whether Minister for Women, Louise Upston, had ever, in fact, said or done anything actually worthwhile for the women of NZ, writes Dita De Boni.

Baltimore's wounds abundant

Even after the fires were extinguished and the chaos quieted for much of the day, this city smouldered.

Woman blows whistle on harassment

When Poppy Smart was wolf-whistled at by builders on her walk to work, she at first tried to ignore it.

X Factor judge defends blackface

New judge, new controversy: Images surface of new <i>X Factor</i> judge Shelton Woolright in blackface.

Sportswear company apologises after washing instructions to 'give it to a woman. It's her job'

The instructions are for shirts made by Salvo Sports, who claim they were issued in response to “a number of buyers who ask how to treat fine jerseys”.

Deborah Hill Cone: Let's turn focus to women's pay

The broadcaster Alison Mau wrote a piece at the weekend about what she called "The curse of casual sexism".

Police made city 'toxic' for blacks

America's top law enforcement official has delivered a scathing denunciation of the police department in Ferguson, the St Louis suburb at the centre of violent race protests last year, as a....

High-stakes battle against Isis for Tikrit

Fighting began in the key central Iraqi city of Tikrit, birthplace of the former dictator Saddam Hussein, as government forces and Shia militia launched a major assault to displace Isis jihadists.

Racist chant suspects identified

Chelsea fan to explain to police

A director of an international human rights organisation has admitted he was involved in preventing a black French man from entering a Paris underground train amid racist chanting by Chelsea football fans.

'You guys used to be slaves'

A video of a woman who appears to tell a passenger that his ancestors "used to be slaves" during an argument on the London Underground is being investigated by police.