Sunday, February 23, 2025 from Women | The Guardian
John Stoltenberg, Dworkin’s partner for three decades, is thrilled by the reissue of three of her books as Penguin Modern Classics, and how a new generation is finding inspiration from her work Though it’s now two decades since Andrea...Saturday, February 22, 2025 from Women | The Guardian
The cropped trench is an outerwear hero worth bookmarking for spring A jacket thrown over layers is the best option for the changeable weather, so set your attention on transeasonal outerwear. There’s an array of jacket trends around,...Saturday, February 22, 2025 from Women | The Guardian
For 25 years, Hamburg-based collector Jochen Raiß scoured flea markets for historical amateur photographs. After finding a photo of a woman smiling in a tree, he started to notice this was a recurrent theme, especially popular between...Friday, February 21, 2025 from womensgrid - network
The Equality and Human Rights Commission has written on 21 February 2025 to the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care and NHS Fife, regarding access to single-sex changing facilities for NHS staff. “As Britain’s equality...Friday, February 21, 2025 from womensgrid - network
NSPCC is urging the government to ensure children are better protected in private messaging environments. Over 38,0001 child sexual abuse image crimes were logged by police forces in England and Wales in the past year, according to Home...Friday, February 21, 2025 from womensgrid - network
An inspiring evening with writer and activist Rahila Gupta, in conversation with journalist and author Yasmin Alibhai-Brown. Until 7pm At Gunnersbury Park Museum, Gunnersbury Park House, Popes Lane, London W5 4NH Tickets £10 (*) Southall...Friday, February 21, 2025 from womensgrid - network
Domestic Abuse specialists will join the control rooms for the West Midlands, Northumbria, Northamptonshire, Bedfordshire and Humberside forces to improve the police response to victims of domestic abuse. The pilot, known as “Raneem’s...Friday, February 21, 2025 from womensgrid - network
The Independent Sentencing Review, chaired by Rt Hon David Gauke, has published their initial findings, before full recommendations for the Lord Chancellor in Spring. We welcome the review’s acknowledgement that a “incoherent” and...Friday, February 21, 2025 from womensgrid - network
For ALL women and girls: Rights. Equality. Empowerment. UN Women’s theme for International Women’s Day 2025 ♀ ♀ ♀ ♀ ♀ ♀ ♀ ♀ 2 March 2025 ~ International Women’s Day Festival 2025 – Power of Women Thanet – until 13 March 2025 2...Friday, February 21, 2025 from womensgrid - network
A documentary about a woman in Gaza joining an underground movement of women fighting for Palestinian rights and self determination in 1987 Until 10pm Melville Centre for the Arts, 4 Pen-Y-Pound Abergavenny NP7 5UD Melville has separate...Friday, February 21, 2025 from womensgrid - network
Join us for an evening of solidarity, community, and live music at Breaking the Silence, a free event hosted by RCTN A powerful social event to support women’s voices and survivors with informal discussions, and fantastic music as we...Friday, February 21, 2025 from womensgrid - network
LSE Library: The British Library of Political and Economic Science, 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD Free but please register (*) Join us for this special event with Patricia Owens, who will discuss her new book Erased: A History of...Friday, February 21, 2025 from womensgrid - network
Join us for music, food and more to raise funds for our vital work supporting women and children affected by domestic violence By Birmingham Community Safety Partnership St Germain’s Church, City Road Birmingham B17 8LE Join us for...Friday, February 21, 2025 from Global Issues News Headlines for “Women’s Rights”
UNITED NATIONS, Feb 21 (IPS) - In the final quarter of 2024 ,there has been an escalation in the Sudanese civil war, with armed clashes between the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) having grown in brutality....Friday, February 21, 2025 from Global Issues News Headlines for “Women’s Rights”
NEW YORK, Feb 21 (IPS) - The selection of the next UN Secretary-General (UNSG) will be a pivotal moment in global efforts to resist authoritarianism and work together to address shared problems. Where do UN Member States stand on...Thursday, February 20, 2025 from Global Issues News Headlines for “Women’s Rights”
MUTARE, Zimbabwe, Feb 20 (IPS) - Wrongfully accused of causing droughts, a group of LGBTQI people in Zimbabwe involved themselves in climate-smart agriculture and are now showing the way to mitigate climate change in a country recently...Thursday, February 20, 2025 from Women | The Guardian
I may be a startled elderly lesbian out of touch with the youth but I don’t think we should apply the same arbitrary rule across all relationships As an incorrigibly online 42-year-old woman, I have always known that the day would come...Wednesday, February 19, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Women's Health News
Breast cancer incidence trends in U.S. women under 40 vary by geography and supports incorporating location information with established risk factors into risk prediction, improving the ability to identify groups of younger women at...Wednesday, February 19, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Women's Health News
Researchers have found that a cancer outside the brain makes electrical connections with the nervous system to fuel cancer growth and aid its spread.Wednesday, February 19, 2025 from Global Issues News Headlines for “Women’s Rights”
Three years of war in Ukraine have reversed decades of progress for women and girls, leaving millions in urgent need of support, according to UN Women. Read the full story, “Ukraine: Three years of war reverses progress for women and...Tuesday, February 18, 2025 from Global Issues News Headlines for “Women’s Rights”
Feb 18 (IPS) - The author is an Afghanistan-based female journalist, trained with Finnish support before the Taliban take-over. Her identity is withheld for security reasonsFatima Mohammadi was a manager in a government office in...Tuesday, February 18, 2025 from Women | The Guardian
Swingers, which aims to celebrate the sport’s feminist history, will take over the Flinders Street station ballroom as part of the 2025 Rising festival Get our weekend culture and lifestyle email The acclaimed author and film-maker...Tuesday, February 18, 2025 from Global Issues News Headlines for “Women’s Rights”
PRAYAGRAJ, India, Feb 18 (IPS) - Despite a blazing sun and growing heat, Pavitra Nandagiri sits on a cot smiling. Clad in a saffron robe and headgear with her forehead painted with turmeric and vermillion, Nandagiri is a...Tuesday, February 18, 2025 from Women | The Guardian
Forty women joined the first ‘Hostel Hoolie’ – an exhilarating programme of hillwalking, climbing, running and socialising in Scotland’s Cairngorms ‘Do you run in the dark?” “How do you stop chafing?” “Does menopause affect your...Monday, February 17, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Women's Health News
In a surprising discovery, scientists have found that the heart possesses 'sweet taste' receptors, similar to those on our tongues, and that stimulating these receptors with sweet substances can modulate the heartbeat. This research...Sunday, February 16, 2025 from Women | The Guardian
Recently, there has been much more discussion of menopause. But one debilitating condition, experienced by 80% of women, remains shrouded in secrecy and misunderstanding When Lorraine Kelly shared her experience of menopause on her...Saturday, February 15, 2025 from Women | The Guardian
It’s been 11 years since she published a novel. In that time, the author has lost both parents, seen Trump become president twice – and finally returned to fiction after a bruising reaction to her comments on gender I arrive early to...Friday, February 14, 2025 from Women | The Guardian
Responding to an editorial about the surge in romantasy books, James Latimer writes that romance isn’t only for girls, and Yvonne Williams talks about the synergy of dragons and sex I was disappointed to read your view on romantasy...Friday, February 14, 2025 from Women | The Guardian
You don’t need to fork out for the OG Chanel version to achieve the classic, chic look – as long as you keep an eye on the details The classics are the classics for a reason, and the Little Boxy Jacket is a classic. You know the one I...Friday, February 14, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Women's Health News
Researchers have demonstrated that self-sampling is just as effective as speculum-based testing for HPV detection.Friday, February 14, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Women's Health News
Aging is a privilege, but it also brings risks -- including an increased likelihood of developing age-related diseases including cancer. Researchers have now created a landmark atlas of how healthy breast tissue ages, revealing key...Thursday, February 13, 2025 from Women | The Guardian
Women are traditionally expected to buy chocolates for male colleagues on Valentine’s Day but teenage boys are shunning the one-sided custom It has been several years since Japanese women first signalled their contempt for the long...Thursday, February 13, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Women's Health News
Eating behavior is associated with symptoms of pelvic floor disorders in middle-aged women. For example, higher consumption of highly processed ready-made foods and fast food increased the risk for experiencing symptoms of stress and...Thursday, February 13, 2025 from Global Issues News Headlines for “Women’s Rights”
The UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) on Thursday issued a stark warning over escalating violence in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), where hundreds of civilians have been killed and tens of thousands displaced as M23 rebels...Wednesday, February 12, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Women's Health News
Gut bacteria are to blame for the failure of immune checkpoint therapy for ovarian cancer, new research reveals.Wednesday, February 12, 2025 from Global Issues News Headlines for “Women’s Rights”
UNITED NATIONS, Feb 12 (IPS) - As ongoing gang violence and unrest bring down the living conditions in Haiti, humanitarian groups sound the alarm on human rights violations and the increasing challenges they dace in providing relief...Wednesday, February 12, 2025 from Global Issues News Headlines for “Women’s Rights”
BEIRUT, Lebanon, Feb 12 (IPS) - Efforts to end child marriage in Iraq are facing a serious threat, with the Iraqi Council of Representatives’ approval of amendments to Iraq’s Personal Status Law raising grave concerns that it risks...Wednesday, February 12, 2025 from Women | The Guardian
I look drained and my mascara’s gone clumpy. According to TikTok, this is all it takes to resemble a hardcore US Republican Somewhere in the wilderness, in a top-secret location, there is an underground lab where normal women go in and...Tuesday, February 11, 2025 from Global Issues News Headlines for “Women’s Rights”
NAIROBI, Feb 11 (IPS) - Today is the International Day of Women and Girls in Science and a time to take stock of progress, successes, and setbacks towards open and gender-inclusive science. Gender equality remains elusive in science, as...Monday, February 10, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Women's Health News
Breast cancers at all stages are defined by the structure of their genomes, researchers find. Targeting these processes early is likely to offer unexpected therapeutic avenues.Monday, February 10, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Women's Health News
Rapid weight loss affects muscle mass and can increase the risk of osteoporosis. But now there is good news for people taking weight loss medication who may be at risk. A new study indicates that the drug bimagrumab can counteract the...Sunday, February 9, 2025 from Women | The Guardian
Herminie Cadolle created the first ever bra in 1889. Today, the family-run lingerie couture house in Paris is still the go-to for the world of high fashion – and stars like Beyoncé and Lady Gaga Down a passageway on the Rue Saint-Honoré,...Saturday, February 8, 2025 from Women | The Guardian
The spouse of former football player Jason Kelce is spotlighting women in a male-dominated sphere and giving her ‘real’ take on parenting Two women have earned the illustrious moniker “the people’s princess”. The first is the global icon...Friday, February 7, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Women's Health News
New research shows that a network of subcellular structures similar to those responsible for propagating molecular signals that make muscles contract are also responsible for transmitting signals in the brain that may facilitate learning...Friday, February 7, 2025 from Women | The Guardian
Hit novels by Sarah J Maas and Rebecca Yarros offer more than sex and escapism. They have reclaimed the fantasy genre for women A strange and powerful creature has taken over the publishing industry – romantasy , a magical union of...Thursday, February 6, 2025 from Women | The Guardian
Nobody beats you at being you, writes advice columnist Eleanor Gordon-Smith. Instead of trying to answer your inner critic, use your role and talents with responsibility Read more Leading questions I’m a woman in my 40s. On paper, I’ve...Wednesday, February 5, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Women's Health News
New research shows that women who hit menopause later in life have healthier blood vessels and mitochondria and a different composition of metabolites in their blood than those who stop menstruating earlier. The study helps explain why...Wednesday, February 5, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Women's Health News
A newly discovered line of communication between body muscle and the pituitary gland may play an unexpected role in female fertility, according to a new study. Researchers found that a protein produced in the muscles helps manage the...Wednesday, February 5, 2025 from Women | The Guardian
Is heartbreak all capitalism’s fault? Faye mixes the personal and political in this exposing but generous memoir Sometimes, if you are a straight woman, it can be tempting to see your sexuality as a curse. It is a cliche to talk about...Tuesday, February 4, 2025 from Women | The Guardian
Dame Sheila Hancock has rewritten the rules on comedy during her trailblazing career. As she turns 92, she shows us that style is timeless. Read the full article here Continue reading...