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When the chief executive of the Women’s Institute said last week that she felt the organisation had no choice but to end its 40-year policy of…

Twenty-five years ago, a dozen women—at the time the only female school superintendents in Oregon—gathered for dinner the night before an annual education conference. The plan…

The England winger Jessica Naz will miss the rest of the season after sustaining an anterior cruciate ligament injury in her right knee.The 25-year-old was withdrawn…

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.In 2014, a small group of women running…

Trans women will be barred from the main part of Labour’s women’s conference next year, the party has said, with entrance to the main conference hall…

Throughout the 2000s, the music charts were rife with references to Rogaine. Jay-Z invoked the hair-restoration drug as a synonym for staying power. Weezer described it,…

Up to a million women worldwide are facing sexual violence and forced labour in prisons, where they are overlooked and forgotten, in what is being called…

How many women are in prison around the world?More than 733,000 women and girls are held in penal institutions globally, according to the Institute for Crime…

When Sylvie Delezenne, a marketing expert from Lille, was job-hunting in 2015, she was delighted to be contacted on LinkedIn by a human resources manager at…

The NHS has been directing pregnant women to a website that connected them to the Free Birth Society, an organisation that has been linked to baby…