Browsing: women

Nicola Sturgeon was always afraid of failure. But it was a very particular kind of failure she feared; one that follows a very particular kind of…

Shekiera Martinez’s family were sceptical when she told them, aged eight, she wanted to start playing football. She was one of four girls and a boy…

A decision by the US government to incinerate more than $9.7m (£7.3m) of contraceptives is projected to result in 174,000 unintended pregnancies and 56,000 unsafe abortions…

Labour MP Jess Phillips has said the UK has got “fat” from the free labour of women for decades.The minister for safeguarding and violence against women…

Anger is growing on Chinese social media after news reports revealed the existence of online groups, said to involve hundreds of thousands of Chinese men, which…

Jamie Lee Curtis got brutally honest to The Guardian about “the genocide of a generation of women by the cosmeceutical industrial complex, who’ve disfigured themselves.” In…

Former Canada women’s football coach Bev Priestman has said she “didn’t feel safe” living in North America following her one-year ban for spying at the Paris…

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Survivors of coercive control are being unfairly criminalised in England and punished by a justice system that should be protecting them, research has found.A report from…

Surrogates have a greater chance of being newly diagnosed with a mental illness during and after pregnancy than women who carry their own offspring, researchers have…