NBA basketball owner Donald Sterling's viciously racist comments in the US remind again how lucky we are in NZ to have a comparatively settled racial landscape, writes Paul Lewis.

Three in four NBA players are black. Almost half its teams' head coaches are African American. And yet of all the NBA's team owners and owners of big league baseball and football teams, only Michael Jordan is African-American.

An Auckland Council survey that asked residents to rate their feelings towards Asians has been scrapped after widespread condemnation.

The other morning I was grabbing a coffee before work and read Bob McCroskie's opinion piece, and that was the start of a ruined day, writes Tom Hamilton.

Women earn less than men because they are seen as pushovers when they don't negotiate hard and are seen as "ball-breakers" when they do, a psychologist says.

After 2,000 years of persecution, India's two million eunuchs are to be formally recognised as a third sex and listed as a "backward" caste entitled to reserved government jobs and university places.

New Zealand has a long and ignominious history of suspicion and hostility towards people of Asian descent.

A transgender Auckland teen rewrote pageant history early this morning after earning a place in next month's final of the Battle of the Babes.

New Zealand's male-dominated business culture with its old-boy sports and education network is sabotaging the promotion of women, says exiting Summerset Group boss Norah Barlow.

An aspiring transgender model has vowed to take to the catwalk tomorrow night despite a row over whether she was eligible to enter a beauty contest.

The woman in charge of equal employment opportunities is set to "crack the whip" on government departments for failing to close the gender pay gap.

It's all part of Tony Abbott's vision of a new Liberal dawn. The Oz PM's conservative Government intends to dilute racial vilification laws to enshrine the right of Australians to be bigots.

A vintage relationship guide aimed at women reveals the outrageous sexism practiced by men during the Forties.

Australia's federal Attorney-General George Brandis is serious when he says on his watch, "people do have a right to be bigots".

Serving world leaders their lunch is a serious affair. No room for "blondes" or women in dresses then, it appears.

It's unlikely many of us lost much sleep at the thought of Fred Phelps slipping away, writes Jack Tame.

A company which sacked its general manager because he did not fit in with the company, even though he was a "nice person", has had to pay the man more than $36,000.

A cafe worker who had her pay cut when she was pregnant and was then not given regular shifts after having her baby has been awarded more than $13,000.

The campaign to promote self-esteem in young girls was started by Facebook chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg.

Minutes before Mojo Mathers was due to give a speech last week, she began to worry.

The law is not always an ass but it can produce an absurdity. The decision to allow a failed job seeker access to his competitors' CVs is one of them.

Google have changed their predictive search function to remove derogatory terms associated with Maori.

Type 'Kiwi' or 'Maori' into Google's predictive search and some less than flattering suggestions come up, prompting a call for the internet giant to disable the feature.

A 62-year-old job seeker who is accusing an energy firm of age discrimination has won a legal battle to view the CVs of the people who beat him to the job.

A branch of one of Auckland's largest Indian restaurant chains has been seeking part-time wait staff - but said only "girls" could apply.

The southwestern state of Arizona has passed a law allowing businesses to refuse to serve gay people if homosexuality is against their religious beliefs.