The macho Kiwi rugby, racing and beer mentality is keeping gay sportspeople firmly in the cupboard.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

Former Justice Minister Judith Collins has told TVNZ bosses she wants its news bulletins to take women more seriously.

Kylie Jenner has come under fire for pictures she has posted to her Instagram account which people are claiming show her with “blackface”.

The country's top cop says he is pleased to see Kiwis standing up against racism after members of the public helped to identify a man who verbally attacked two foreign men on a bus.

The images aim to demystify and destigmatise the female body - to make viewers "realise these are just regular, normal processes," nothing to reject or shame

The Asia New Zealand Foundation has been surveying New Zealanders about their attitudes towards Asia for nearly two decades, capturing an evolving picture of our responses to demographic and economic....

We're led to believe it takes courage for sports stars to take a stand. It doesn't always.

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

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”.

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

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....

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.

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.

Society still expects women to behave like women and men to behave like men, and accept the benefits and disadvantages our genders are entitled to, writes Heather du Plessis-Allan.

"I am a Muslim. I am labelled as a terrorist. I trust you. Do you trust me? Give me a hug." And with that, Mustafa Mawla waited for someone to hug him.

When Benedict Cumberbatch put his foot in it, he copped abuse. He’s not alone in falling into the language trap.

Organisers of a Maori basketball tournament have hit back at accusations it banned non-Maori coaches and staff from entering the competition.

Organisers of a basketball tournament have been called on to allow a girls' team to play after they were refused entry because their coach wasn't Maori.

Some readers were less concerned about the impact of Quitline’s crayon ad on children and more worried about the race-based stereotypes it was propagating.

Saudi officials deny they blurred out US First Lady Michelle Obama, but her decision not to wear a headscarf, and don blue, not black at the late King's funeral, is controversial.

In New Zealand, there used to be a widely held view that sport had nothing to do with politics. This was not only naive but also wrong, writes Dame Susan Devoy.

A YouGov survey in England found nearly half of the population agreed with one of four anti-Semitic statements.

When it comes to home-grown anti-Semitism, France leads the world, writes Stephen Pollard.