After years of languishing in the bottom ten, Saudi Arabia has been inching up the ranks of the World Economic Forum's Global Gender Index, now coming 126th out of 146 countries in the 2024 report.

Female condoms, also known as internal condoms, are latex pouches you insert into the vagina to prevent pregnancy. They work by blocking sperm from entering the vagina during intercourse. They ...

Despite great strides made by the international women’s rights movement over many years, women and girls around the world are still married as children or trafficked into forced labor and sex ...

Jan. 30, 2025 — A mathematical modeling study suggests that ovarian cancer incidence could be reduced and healthcare savings boosted if women who have already completed their families were ...

Although long considered a disease of aging, certain cancers are turning up more often in younger women, according to a new report. By Roni Caryn Rabin More Americans are surviving cancer ...

Last year marked the first time in several years that the Army achieved its ambitious recruiting goals -- primarily due to an increase in female recruits, according to internal service data ...

Women aren’t supposed to fake it anymore. Not that we ever were, by the way; in an ideal world, we’d never need to. But for a long time, it was a truth universally acknowledged that if you had ...

Nearly 64% of adult American women take a dietary supplement and, of those, the majority are multivitamins. But because the supplement industry is so big, it can be hard to know how to choose the ...

The UN Women Internship Programme offers outstanding students the opportunity to acquire direct exposure to UN Women’s work in areas such as strategic partnerships, communications, advocacy, policy, ...

MANILA, Philippines—Every 10 minutes in 2023, a woman or girl lost her life at the hands of an intimate partner or family member — a chilling reminder of the unrelenting violence women face ...