Women

Why women keep secrets

The Book of Revelations finds Juliet Nicolson exploring the history and politics of female secrecy

Their days in the sun: the women who made history among the stars

Donald Trump may want to undermine them, but female astronauts are getting the attention they deserve

Fashion Week showed us the body positivity movement is over

The main trend revealed on the catwalks is that women are expected to be thinner

My brain injury left me unable to move

Many former players watching the rise of the women’s game will be doing so through the haze of neurodegenerative diseases caused by the repeated head impacts they sustained from playing rugby. Their stories are a warning.

Women still not visible in sports advertising

Research shows that only 40% of sporting images feature women. A new campaign aims to change that

Women wait longer for ovarian cancer care in UK

British women are less likely to receive timely treatment for the disease than counterparts in other countries

‘Intimate deodorants suggest we want our genitals to smell like food’

The growing hunger for fragrance rather than food has led to new ways to cover our bodily odours with gourmet scents

After Tylenol, will epidurals and caesareans be next?

Blaming expectant mothers who take Tylenol for autism in their children shows exactly how little Donald Trump cares for science – or women

Hostile, degrading, offensive: women demand harsher penalties for ‘God complex’ surgeons

Anger as consultant who touched female colleague under the operating table returns to work after being suspended for just a year

Women’s football is following the flow to transform the game

Top-flight teams and experts are ‘weaponising’ periods for better play and to tackle stigma

‘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

A shift in the abortion debate

The latest stats don't prove carelessness, they show that women take the prospect of motherhood 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