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, ...

Restricted and repetitive behaviors, along with strong preferences for sameness in both behavior and environment, are noted as hallmark features of autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Structured routines ...

For 35 years, Marcy Syms appeared in TV and radio commercials for her family’s company, voicing its famous slogan, “An educated consumer is our best customer.” Syms was the first truly off-price ...

Credit: Keerthivasan Rajamani/keerth on Flickr, under Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0). (WOMENSENEWS)–Rosa Parks‘ most historic hour may have occurred on the bus in December 1955 but a moment that ...

Having already withdrawn from the Human Rights Council, the U.S. has adopted an increasingly isolationist and obstructive stance within international institutions.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

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 ...

In the two years since the Roe decision was overturned, a great deal of ink has been spilled discussing new restrictions to abortion and other means of curtailing women’s reproductive choices. But now ...

My name is Mehria. I am 16 years old and I live in northern Afghanistan. Since birth, I have had a disability in one of my legs, which becomes more apparent when I walk. My mother says my disability ...

After inspiring mainstream focus on the federal Equal Rights Amendment by ratifying it with Illinois and Virginia, Nevada has become the first state to prohibit discrimination based on sexual ...

Sometimes resistance is attending a protest, and sometimes it’s wearing our braids to work in defiance of white, eurocentric beauty standards that are enforced in our workplaces. The federal ...