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 ...

Dec. 11, 2024 — Researchers have found definitive proof of a kidney microbiome that influences renal health and kidney stone formation, demonstrating that the urinary tract is not sterile and ...

You’re (hopefully) spending eight hours a night in bed, and the last thing you need is to be tossing and turning thanks to a bad pair of PJs. There’s nothing wrong with a ratty T-shirt and too ...

Created by CFR’s Women and Foreign Policy program, the Women’s Power Index ranks 193 UN member states on their progress toward gender parity in political participation. It analyzes the ...

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The United Nations has organized four world conferences on women. These took place in Mexico City in 1975, Copenhagen in 1980, Nairobi in 1985 and Beijing in 1995. The last was followed by a series of ...

Women’s movements have driven global and national action on gender equality. In countries and localities, advocates often have the greatest understanding of the deficiencies that women and girls face, ...

Women competed for the first time at the 1900 Games in Paris. Of a total of 997 athletes, 22 women competed in five sports: tennis, sailing, croquet, equestrianism and golf. The IOC is committed to ...

Bank loans, SBA loans, online loans and microloans are some of the financing options available to women-owned businesses. See Your Loan Options with Fundera by NerdWallet Many or all of the ...

Much of the world is not getting this message. While Sheinbaum debuts on the Forbes list of the World’s 100 Most Powerful Women at No. 4, several would-be peers have fallen from the list’s ...

A basketball player has never before made the ranks of the Forbes list of the World’s 100 Most Powerful Women (Serena Williams, tennis ace, is one of the only other athletes to appear in the ...