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Getting shut out of a preferred course can have lasting negative effects on incoming female students, a recent working paper found. The paper, published by the…

Grooming gang victims have accused the UK government of attempting to manipulate them into broadening a national inquiry to include other forms of sexual abuse, despite…

In the 18th century, physicians noticed nuns had some of the highest rates of breast cancer. It was one of the earliest clues that led scientists…

Pregnant women in England are at growing risk of suffering a serious injury while giving birth, NHS figures reveal.The number of mothers sustaining a third- or…

Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman.Lung cancer is the deadliest cancer among women in the United States, surpassing the mortality numbers of…

Sports footwear manufacturers are being urged to ditch the “shrink it and pink it” approach when it comes to women’s running shoes.Over the past five decades,…

After a 20-year career in higher education, including roles as a chief academic officer and faculty member, I left to have a child. I was one…

Gen Z women are the most politically left-leaning group in the US, according to a poll which suggests that women 28 and younger skew substantially more…

Some of the most interesting television projects coming out of Flanders have one key thing in common: women directors. In recent years, projects supported by the…

For hours, jolting along the waterlogged dirt track to the hospital, 18-year-old Makka Ibraheem Mohammed held on tight to her seat and focused on stopping herself…