Hosai Ismail Khan is the pseudonym of a female journalist in Afghanistan who has written Sonia’s story using her own words; ...

Lost in the cobwebs of life were all the empty Passover holidays over the past 40 years where my daughter’s seat at the Seder stood empty. I recalled the warmth we once shared and how she pleaded to ...

Women now make up a majority of residents and fellows for the first time in history, but this growth is not being translated ...

Women now make up a majority of residents and fellows for the first time in history, but this growth is not being translated ...

“Made in Dagenham” opens Nov. 19 and is sure to boost English machinist Rita O’Grady into the woman-worker-warrior ranks of Norma Rae and Karen Silkwood. There’s plenty more in store this month, ...

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 ...

Military service is one of the nation’s most rewarding yet consequential careers, offering purpose and honor while exposing those who serve to profound and lasting health risks. For women, these ...

The United Nations’ Gender Snapshot 2025 is out, and the numbers are grim: Women have broken barriers in education but remain sidelined in leadership, holding only 27.2% of parliamentary seats, 30% of ...

Women with disabilities live at the intersection of two main biases: Gender bias can also color physicians’ attitudes toward patients. For example, a 2018 study found that doctors often view men with ...

Bennett calls the Taliban’s edicts against women including the “absolute erasure” of them from public life to be “irrational.” Eight months after the Taliban regained power in Afghanistan, Richard ...

(WOMENSENEWS)–Breast milk is the most local of all foods and one that can have an outsized impact on the health of mothers and infants. However, for many African American parents finding a maternity ...