Women

‘So sick to make money out of body distress’

Now we can all live the lean dream – if we can afford the drugs, writes the author of Fat is a Feminist Issue

Women’s safety group accused of setting back sexual violence debate

Women’s Safety Initiative harnesses myth of evil migrant man in narrative that bolsters far right

Oasis shocker: no fights, no chaos. Critics, don’t look back in anger

US groups escalate support for UK anti-abortion protesters

Network of well-funded bodies backs cases in UK after JD Vance’s challenge on buffer zones outside abortion clinics

South Africa face battle to win hearts and minds

Springboks hope World Cup progress can overturn toxic attitudes at home

A chance to grow: the women learning to garden in prison

The Glasshouse offers horticultural training to incarcerated women, nurturing a more hopeful future

The high abortion rate is not due to carelessness. Quite the opposite

The latest stats reveal that women, having agency to make informed decisions, take the prospect of motherhood very seriously

The reality of living in a woman’s body is complicated

A paper on pregnancy nutrition offers advice – but overlooks the truths about life after birth

Breakthrough against chemo resistance in ovarian cancer

Imperial College London scientists hopeful new approach could be used in other cancers

The Inuit girls from Greenland given birth control without consent

More than 100 women are suing the Danish state for $6m, claiming their human rights were violated

Baby it’s you: tales of motherhood in four countries

How does it feel to parent in Kenya, Japan, Finland and the US? Four women share the highs – and lows – of becoming a mother

‘Beauty pageants were always about exploiting women’

Miss World faces accusations of exploitation (again), but why do we pretend these competitions are for anything else?

History’s women have more to tell us than their fashion choices

I had an abortion at 23 and still grieve. I can’t celebrate this law change

Last week’s vote allows pregnancy terminations without limits. Freedom has consequences – I wish it had been done with more regret

Abuse is the high price of visibility in women’s sport

Too many female athletes are forced to armour themselves daily against attacks – the solution is to financially empower them

‘I can finally get on with rebuilding my life’: MPs vote to decriminalise abortion

Ending a pregnancy will no longer carry the threat of prosecution after first major law change in a generation

What it means to be a wife today

Married women in 2025 can choose from being committed, surrendered, hot, trad… The only certainty is that contradiction is at the heart of a marriage

Kylie’s message? ‘Only you are stopping you from being hotter’

Kylie Jenner is the latest celebrity to share her cosmetic surgery secrets while paying lip service to natural beauty. Don’t believe a word of it