With everyone stuck at home during the lockdown are women still doing the majority of housework? Photo / 123RF
With everyone stuck at home during the lockdown are women still doing the majority of housework? Photo / 123RF
The Covid-19 pandemic has thrown most of the world off its axis. It's taken lives, impacted the health of thousands of people and interrupted our very way of life.
It's easy to be overwhelmed by all the information coming at you, so it's important to take your mind off things,even for a little while.
To help you with this we've pulled together some of our favourite big reads from our international partners. There's not a Covid-19 story in sight, promise.
Today we take a look at sexism and housework, why Hank Azaria stepped away from Apu, the man trying to save farming, whistleblowers taking on the world's leading accounting firms, and we meet the jeweller to the stars.
Sexism and housework
The emergence of the two-job family in the final decades of the 20th century wasn't accompanied by similar changes outside the workplace. Stressed and overworked women became resentful of their partners.
The emergence of the two-job family has not been accompanied by similar changes outside the workplace. Photo / 123RF
Why Apu from The Simpsons lost his voice
In the three decades that he has been a voice actor on The Simpsons, Hank Azaria has played dozens of Springfield's absurd denizens.
But in recent years, Azaria has become irrevocably associated with one Simpsons character in particular: Apu, the obliging Indian immigrant and proprietor of the town's Kwik-E-Mart convenience store.
Azaria has played the character since his first appearance in 1990 but he and the show have faced increasing condemnation from audience members who feel that Apu is a bigoted caricature.
British gamekeeper Jacob 'Jake' Fiennes, brother of English actor, film producer and director Ralph Fiennes, on the Raveningham Hall Estate. Photo / Getty Images
Richie Rich: Meet Instagram's diamond geezer
Richie Rich's name is the most subtle thing about him. He's the go-to jeweller for a generation of celebrities who want to show off just how minted they are.
Richie Rich with an assortment of his diamond rings. Photo / richierich Instagram
Betrayed by the Big Four: Whistleblowers speak out
Four individuals have spoken out about their experience of harassment, bullying and discrimination at four of the most renowned names in the business world: EY, Deloitte, KPMG and PwC.
