Study finds female-dominated inner circles are key to women gaining leadership roles

More than 100 million women monitor their cycles on their phones. Here come the ads.

Aiia Maasarwe’s death has been used as grist for the gender culture wars, a pointless loop of generalisation, accusation and defensiveness

I, for instance, elect to walk on certain streets, not others. The elevator doors slide open, and there’s one man inside: I evaluate his size against mine, calculating how well, if I had to, I could fight him off. I check the backseat of my car before getting in, just to make sure no one’s waiting there. I don’t leave my drink unattended. By R. O. Kwon.

How do you celebrate masculinity without also acknowledging toxic masculinity in the #metoo era?

Many shows about teens don’t push past cliches – but Derry Girls gives us complex, unpredictable characters who are never completely in control

Female entrepreneurs are woefully underserved by traditional VC, which some argue is not only an injustice but also a wasted opportunity. We spoke to seven women on why that is and how to change it.

Where are all the beautiful, powerful, black-skinned females from mythology and history? They were erased by Western art, argues Sophia Smith Galer.

Women that underwent extreme physical training and completed a transantarctic expedition did not show any more negative health effects than would be expected in men, according to a study presented at the Society for Endocrinology annual conference in Glasgow. The study is the first to suggest that women are not more susceptible to the negative effects of physical exertion and, that with appropriate training and preparation, can be as resilient as men in undertaking arduous physical activity.

Pressure mounted on Mr. Engler to step down after he was quoted saying that some of Lawrence Nassar’s victims were enjoying “the spotlight.”

"The day I found out I was pregnant, I installed an app on my phone that guesstimated — in exclusively fruit and vegetable comparisons — the size of my might-be child. My pregnancy made it from the size of a sweet pea to the size of a blueberry, and during that time I kept a wire-bound journal with “Sweet Pea” written on the cover." By Kristen.

Yet whenever I post an image of a woman with a full bush, tempers flare. How did we get here? By Kate Lister.

Oxford has ended its women-only fellowship after the university’s administrators said it breached equality law.

Often aided and inspired by social media, an increasing number of young Saudi women are taking enormous gambles to escape the country, rights groups say.

A campaigner against period poverty, teenager Amika George describes the ‘horrific’ alternatives some girls are forced to use just to be able to go to school

A woman who beat cancer hit back at men who made cruel comments about her appearance - by sharing a picture of her mastectomy scars. Laura Owens, from Formby, was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2012, when she was just 31. She had her right breast removed and reconstructed in that year, before deciding to have the other breast removed and reconstructed in 2014.

Penny Marshall, who starred alongside Cindy Williams in the hit ABC comedy “Laverne & Shirley” and then became a successful director, died on Monday night at her Hollywood Hills hom…

This brilliant retelling of Homer’s epic poem focuses on the cost of war to women through the story of Briseis, Achilles’ concubine

The research, covering 2014 to 2017, also showed the power of films that pass the Bechdel test, in which two female characters discuss something other than a man.

A large clinical trial launched this week will test a new, gel-based form of male birth control, Gizmodo reported Friday.