Qualification figures show growing gap between sexes
New Zealand Herald
Fri Jul 25 05:00:04 2008
Girls are still outdoing boys in university entrance - and new figures show the gap has widened. Last year, 45 per cent of female school leavers got the qualification, or an equivalent, compared with 33 per cent of the males. Despite...

Named and shamed - the misery some parents inflict
New Zealand Herald
Fri Jul 25 05:00:00 2008
You can call your children what you like - as long as they're not named after Adolf Hitler, the Antichrist or anything likely to embarrass them in the playground. Jack and Ella were last year's most popular names for new babies,...