The centenary of her birth provides a good opportunity to look back at the peerless career of a film critic remembered for her acuity, fierceness and idiosyncrasy – a writer whose brilliant insights and withering put-downs inspire loyal adulation and bitter enmity like no other. By Farran Smith Nehme.

Today, vaccinating against cervical cancer is routine. But before Sarah Stewart, scientists dismissed the idea of a cancer-preventing vaccine as ludicrous. By Leila McNeill.

“I hope it changes. I hope I’m wrong. I’m not holding my breath.”

Women in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) careers can often feel isolated at work if they don't have a lot of other female colleagues. Fortunately, the internet has more ways for women in tech to connect than ever before. Here are just 40 examples.

Mary Bowser risked execution to infiltrate Jefferson Davis’s Richmond household. But she was never caught.

The authorship controversy has yet to surface a compelling alternative to the man buried in Stratford. Perhaps that’s because, until recently, no one was looking in the right place. The case for Emilia Bassano.

Reuters has learned Vice President Mike Pence is asserting quiet but unmistakable influence over a sweeping White House push to use health policy to restrict access to abortion and contraception, both in the United States and around the globe.

From bedding Kings to fleeing countries dressed as a pistol wielding man. Duelling her lovers, drinking, dancing and above all fighting for her independence; the life on Hortense Mancini was to be blunt, fucking insane.

The unintended consequence of the #MeToo movement -- that men are now more fearful of working one-on-one with women -- is getting worse. Much worse. Or at least, that's the take-away from a survey released Friday by LeanIn.org, the women's self-empowerment organization founded by Facebook chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg. The survey found that 60% of male managers say they are uncomfortable doing common workplace activities with women such as mentoring, socializing or having one-on-one meetings -- sharply up from 46% last year.

How America’s obsession with long hours has widened the gender gap.

Athlete Caster Semenya will need to take hormone-lowering agents, or have surgery, if she wishes to continue her career in her chosen events. Rarely does a public policy fail so spectacularly on so many ethical grounds.

Sport is a special domain, but it is not immune from the law and human rights. We're yet to see if the United Nations Human Rights Council will take further steps following this new ruling.

The site has acknowledged its systemic bias before. By Claire L. Jarvis.

African American women are a key voting bloc and 2020 contenders faced a demanding audience at the She the People Presidential Forum in Houston

Thank god Canadian gynecologist Dr. Jen Gunter exists. Without the author of The Vagina Bible: The Vulva And The Vagina: Separating The Myth From The Medicine, who else would be out there telling people to keep certain items out of their vaginas? (Certainly not Gwyneth Paltrow, whose Goop site pushes vaginal jade eggs that “do everything from fix your hormone levels to help with bladder control” and was subsequently fined by the Orange County District Attorney’s Office, says Vox.)

She was as qualified as any man to be an astronaut and passed all the tests, but NASA wasn’t interested in sending women into space in 1961.

The relationship between testosterone and sexual desire in women is dependent on relationship status and bodily and emotional awareness, according to preliminary research published in the journal Adaptive Human Behavior and Physiology.

It was not until the late 1990s that the anatomy of the human clitoris was accurately described by Australia’s first female urologist. And now research in animals is starting to catch up.

Matthew Eledge and Elliot Dougherty of Omaha, Nebraska, needed a surrogate to carry their baby. They never expected she would turn out to be Matthew’s mother.

The number of female solo travelers has skyrocketed, but amid Instagram-worthy escapades are tales of violence and death, raising questions about how the world is greeting women who travel alone.