Inside the fight to keep girls out of boys' schools

This week on The Fin podcast, AFR Magazine contributor Brook Turner on why Sydney has become the epicentre of this battle and whether there is still a place in Australia for single-sex schools. This podcast is sponsored by IG. Further reading:‘We became a pinata’: The culture war tearing a school apartHow its decision to go co-ed made Newington College in Sydney the country’s most talked-about school.‘We did not expect the intensity’: Newington hits back at co-ed rowCoeducation is seen as the future of school. So why is Newington College in Sydney at the centre of a debate so hot that parents are withdrawing boys?Why coeducation is so fraught in AustraliaAre single-sex schools – no, make that boys-only schools – deserving of the bad rap they get? Are they hotbeds of toxic masculinity? Are girls better off without boys disrupting their classes and smashing their self-confidence?See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.