Family caregivers may be less likely to turn to others when they need their own support.
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Family caregivers who have stronger support networks and positive communication with loved ones tend to be more resilient.
Shaming women for enjoying anal sex is damaging to their health, wellbeing and sexual autonomy.
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The stigma around anal sex is damaging for women – and diminishes their sexual autonomy
A woman walks in front of a collapsed building in Hatay province in southern Turkey.
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It has been one year since Turkey’s deadly earthquakes – the road ahead remains daunting.
A referendum will be held in March to widen the Irish constitution’s concept of women’s role in society.
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Ireland is to vote on modernising its conservative Catholic constitution in March.
Like natural hormones, known as endogenous hormones, the artificial hormones contained in the pill, known as exogenous hormones, can have effects on the brain.
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Oral contraceptives modify the menstrual cycle. What’s less well known is that they also reach the brain, particularly the regions important for regulating emotions.
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Recovering Women’s Contributions to Media Studies is a new book which looks at the contributions of women in the media.
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Mae D Huettig, Romana Javitz and Shirley Graham DuBois were instrumental in their respective media fields but very few of us will be aware of their individual contributions.
Enacting a coercive control offence in France would be a significant advance in the equality agenda, would help protect 213 000 women, 82 % of whom are mothers, and their 398 310 children co-victims of domestic violence.
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The concept of “coercive control” reframes domestic violence as an attack on human rights and resources rather than an assault.
Pregnancy sickness is believed to affect 7 in 10 women.
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New research has uncovered the hormone that triggers morning sickness, offering hope for millions of women.
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Through acts of covert resistance, women have been driving change in family relationships, women’s sexuality and reproductive issues, and women’s cultural identities.
Rural women are the primary producers of shea in northern Ghana.
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Shea is a key economic crop for poor women in the northern parts of Ghana.
Knowledge is power − especially where money is concerned.
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Only a small fraction of women have received any financial education at all.
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Key findings on victims and perpetrators of interpersonal violence have been brought together in a new website that seeks to combine over 30 sources of data across Australia.
Almost half the study’s respondents found breastfeeding to be a positive experience most or all of the time.
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New research sheds light on how autism affects how we feed our babies, and vice versa.
Dans cette édition illustrée de La cousine Bette (1948), l'héroïne célibataire a les traits durs, la mine sévère et triste.
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In his collection of stories, “The Human Comedy”, the French 19th-century writer Honoré de Balzac turned the shaming of single women into an art.
Three women executed as witches in Derneburg Germany in October 1555.
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Witchcraft is an enduring source of fascination but also prone to popular misconceptions.
Palestinian and Israeli women activists from the Israeli Women Wage Peace movement and the Palestinian Women of the Sun movement sing and dance during the joint platform inauguration ceremony in Jericho in March 2022.
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The joint Women Wage Peace-Women of the Sun initiative unites Israeli and Palestinian women calling for peace. The international community should elevate their voices.
Women are still in the minority in the laboratories.
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From primary school to academic positions, despite some progress, gender inequality continues to be rife.
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We must shift the narrative from portraying women solely as “victims” of the climate crisis to actively involving them in addressing environmental issues.
The subtler, more insidious forms of discrimination that women face at work often go unnoticed.
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While blatant discrimination is easy to condemn because of how obvious it is, there are subtler, more insidious forms that also need to be rooted out.
According to the courts, what’s considered harassment in white-collar environments may not be in blue-collar workplaces.
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While women in poverty are more likely to experience sexual harassment and domestic abuse than higher-income women, people assume it is less distressing for them.