During perimenopause, progesterone often declines first and becomes increasingly erratic. As allopregnanolone levels ...

fraction of the actual one. Period poverty compounds across a woman’s life. No product, or an unsafe one, leads to ...

A federal judge in New York has ordered the city to reform its welfare system after finding that it illegally prevents aid and food stamps from reaching battered immigrant women and their children, ...

(WOMENSENEWS)—If there is a single through-line in my life and in my philanthropy, it is marginalization. It has been with me from my earliest memory, and it has defined the many causes to which I ...

The focus is shifting away from whether women should lead towards whether prevailing leadership approaches reflect how women choose to lead. For years, efforts to increase the number of women in ...

It is very likely that if the this law is repealed, other existing laws protecting women and girls’ rights will be threatened. Within the next few months, The Gambian Supreme Court will make a ruling ...

From February – April 22 (Earth Day), survivors, artists and activists in 88 countries across the globe are rising For Freedom & to Create the New Culture to address the devastating consequences of ...

Betty Friedan’s “The Feminine Mystique” helped unravel the myth of the 1950s and 1960s housewife as completely satisfied and happy, says Stephanie Coontz in her book “A Strange Stirring.” In this ...

Women now make up a majority of residents and fellows for the first time in history, but this growth is not being translated into the field of surgery. I was recently invited to give a keynote address ...

We continue to ask women to make impossible trade-offs between caregiving and career, and then scrutinize whichever choice they make. Every Mother’s Day, we celebrate mothers for their love, and ...

The fact that medical professionals seldom ask women whether they served in the military upon assigning them a diagnosis is just one of the reasons why many female veterans fail to receive the ...

Having already withdrawn from the Human Rights Council, the U.S. has adopted an increasingly isolationist and obstructive stance within international institutions. Will the United States become the ...