Ovulation

Votes for women

Online outrage prompts CNN to pull story linking female voting to ovulation

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Daisy Dumas CNN has published and retracted a news story that claimed that women's votes were governed by their menstrual cycles.

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Housework and play

Do men who wash up really have less sex?

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Michael Hanlon The relationship between sex, marriage and gender roles is so complex that unravelling it makes the work of the Large Hadron Collider look like playschool.

Fact v fiction

Birth control: myths and misconceptions

Contraceptive pill, contraception.

Dr Deborah Bateson How contraception affects fertility, weight and your risk of cancer.

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How the c-word turned a grouch into a (fairy) godmother

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Jenna Clarke There are few things I share with a royal bride, however deflecting questions about our wombs is one burden we carry together.

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Fertility drug scare over link to mad cow disease

Julie Robotham THE federal government has begun an investigation into the safety of a class of fertility drugs after overseas research showed the hormones - derived from pregnant or menopausal women's urine - could...