Women

For Laura Bates, it began with a heavy piece of gold jewellery that her mother found on the passenger seat of the family car. It was a gift from her grandparents. Her mother, after two daughters, had been rewarded for giving birth to a son. “I am five years old,” Bates writes, “and have no idea I’ve already been weighed, valued and found wanting.”This incident is the first on what the feminist writer and activist calls “my list”. She encourages all women to make one, charting a life in sexism, from the playground to the…

It isn't every day that a literary award show is completely dominated by women, however, the Hugo Awards set a new precedent this year with women winning in almost all categories. Another reason why this year's Hugo Awards calls for celebration is that author NK Jemisin made history by winning a Hugo for the third time. This year she won the Best Novel award for the third book in her Broken Earth Trilogy,  The Stone Sky. Jemisin was the first African American woman to win this award back in 2016, for her book, The…

Actor-turned-author Twinkle Khanna, known for her wit, political outspokenness and sensitivity towards gender issues, says the surest way towards women empowerment is through their financial independence. "We often tell women to speak up for themselves and to be fearless, but the fact is if you are not financially independent, then you have to toe the line and have to raise hand for the cheque," she said. "Economic independence is the primary thing for all women out there. They should not rely on someone else…

Editor's Note: The book, For The Love of God: Women Poet Saints of the Bhakti Movement written by Sandhya Mulchandani sheds light on how women in India, between 3rd Century BC and AD, boycotted the patriarchal norms and customs of the society to embrace the Bhakti Movement. Regardless of what social backgrounds they came from -- prostitutes, Rajputs, Brahmins, and Sudras -- many women came forth to claim their place in this religious movement, which did not discriminate on the basis of gender. They freed themselves from…

By Tara Siegel Bernard, The New York Times Company The women logged on from Alaska, Florida and points in between, excited and nervous. The energy was palpable in the chat stream, which bubbled with the kind of quick and candid confessions that emerge in a room of virtual strangers. One said she was so teary-eyed with happiness that someone must be cutting onions. Another said she was so wound up that she could vomit. Encouragement and expletives flowed freely. But one user’s request to Tori Dunlap got directly to the…

Researchers in the United States and Norway are working together to figure out what forms of flirtation are most effective and why.The results of the international collaboration are only based on questionnaires, not experiments, which means we have to assume participants are being honest and self-aware about what they find attractive.  That said, among 415 men and women in Norway and 577 in the US, there was one way of flirting that stood out among heterosexual relationships.Whether looking for a fling or a long-term…

Credit: Starstuff/Shutterstock.com Men appear to "borrow" free time from their female partners to keep up their exercise but women don't get the same time in return, according to new research from The Australian National University (ANU) published in the Journal of Health and Social Behavior. …

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Policies and decisions made in the United States echo around the world and often have widespread implications. Take sexual and reproductive health, for example. Decisions made in the US have caused, and could cause, severe damage to progress in access to these services in developing countries.…

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Gig industry platforms such as Uber, Doordash, and TaskRabbit fail to acknowledge the realities of women workers' experiences, putting women at financial and personal risk, finds a new study. …

Even when accounting for gender-dependent mortality rates, age at death, and differences in lifespan, women still have twice the risk of Alzheimer’s disease. New research studied whether sex significantly affects cognitive outcomes in people who follow individually-tailored, multi-domain clinical interventions.Richard Isaacson, M.D., leads first study to define sex differences in outcomes of tailored <span class="glossaryLink" aria-describedby="tt" data-cmtooltip="<div…