In June, Melinda French Gates committed $215 million to menopause and midlife care. Menopause has become fundable partly because its costs finally got quantified: a 2023 Mayo Clinic Proceedings study ...

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 ...

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 ...

Many parents talk with their children about stranger danger, but far fewer talk openly about grooming or unhealthy age-gap relationships. The Epstein files confirmed what many already knew: older men ...

Women’s History Month has come and gone, and despite all the drama, we are still here and multitasking more than ever. However, imagine waking up one day to find all the women had simply vanished! No ...

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 ...

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 ...

These spaces aren’t just about connection – they’re arenas of advocacy, empowerment, and solidarity, representing a new kind of social value. A quiet revolution is unfolding for disabled women on ...

When Kate Valente packed for college, she did not pack pepper spray. Now, she may have to add to her packing list. When Kate Valente packed for college, she did not pack pepper spray. Although 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Having already withdrawn from the Human Rights Council, the U.S. has adopted an increasingly isolationist and obstructive stance within international institutions.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 ...

When Sabrina Carpenter recently opened as host for NBC’s Saturday Night Live, she didn’t hold back. “Since you’re here, I want to clear up some misconceptions people have about me,” she said with a ...