Afghan women around the world are protesting the Taliban's new hijab requirement in schools by posting photos of themselves wearing colorful traditional dresses on social media.

An avocado a day could help redistribute belly fat in women toward a healthier profile, according to a new study. Women who consumed avocado as part of a daily meal had a reduction in visceral abdominal fat, which forms around the organs deep in the belly.

Why am I doing this? I’m not fit for this.” “They probably had no other choice, that’s why they picked me” “I feel like such a fraud. Others do really good work, while I’m just faking it to get through.” The study found that women had a higher rate of experiencing imposter syndrome than men.

Interactive tool features more than 500 women who are often forgotten in the classical music world

Studies show that men are much more open to dating someone outside of their height requirements than women are. "Twenty-three percent of men but only four percent of women said they were open to a relationship in which the woman was taller," a Huffington Post article explained.

No matter if it is Austen or Atwood, the Brontës or Booker winners, data shows men are reluctant to read women – and this has real world implications

The European Handball Federation fined Norway’s women’s team for wearing shorts rather than bikini bottoms during a match. Each player was fined 150 Euros for wearing “improper clothing…

Two of the world’s three fastest women’s 400m sprinters this year were ruled ineligible to run the event at the Olympics due to a rule capping testosterone levels in women’s events from the 400m through the mile, according to their National Olympic Committee.

Although many women feel a societal pressure to wear makeup, a new study suggests that women who wear makeup are not always positively evaluated.

Despite decades of gains in the workplace, women continued to be underrepresented in leadership positions within Canada in 2016, especially Indigenous and visible minority women. This infographic examines the diversity among board directors and officers.

Researchers have explored many factors that affect iron levels, including diet and exercise, but we don't yet fully understand the role women's reproductive hormones play in regulating iron uptake.

Lisa Napoli’s “Susan, Linda, Nina & Cokie” follows four reporters who helped make the scrappy nonprofit into an American institution.

Two years on after playing a key role in the Sudanese revolution, women in the country are still struggling to change attitudes in the conservative-Muslim society. Also with the African Union having…

More than 150 years before Oprah and Reese Witherspoon, women began reading together in groups, seeking wisdom from the books and from one another.

Uttarakhand’s CM Tirath Singh Rawat said that women are setting a “bad example” for society and leading to substance abuse by wearing ripped jeans.

Anthropologists believed that before the implementation of agriculture, men hunted and women gathered, but new evidence suggests that this might not have been the case.

“The masher’s chief peculiarity is a profound faith in his dominion over the other sex.”Today—almost 150 years later—we’re realizing that the ...

When women hold two incompatible beliefs, they’re more likely to change their behaviour to reconcile them. Men, by comparison, tend to dig themselves in.

In this article we discuss the importance of bedroom etiquette. An elegant lady must act elegant everywhere!