Jan. 30, 2025 — A mathematical modeling study suggests that ovarian cancer incidence could be reduced and healthcare savings boosted if women who have already completed their families were ...

The office of abbess of Kildare was a highly sought after and powerful position that was intertwined with the political landscape of medieval Ireland, meaning that the women who occupied that ...

The British Library has introduced a new exhibition dedicated to uncovering the hidden voices of medieval women. Medieval Women: In Their Own Words highlights the lives of women often overshadowed ...

In the women's category, they say we tend to be more technical rather than brute strength," Shellans said. Shellans said she got into medieval armored combat in 2017. "When we hit another person ...

Female condoms, also known as internal condoms, are latex pouches you insert into the vagina to prevent pregnancy. They work by blocking sperm from entering the vagina during intercourse. They ...

Despite great strides made by the international women’s rights movement over many years, women and girls around the world are still married as children or trafficked into forced labor and sex ...

Although long considered a disease of aging, certain cancers are turning up more often in younger women, according to a new report. By Roni Caryn Rabin More Americans are surviving cancer ...

After years of languishing in the bottom ten, Saudi Arabia has been inching up the ranks of the World Economic Forum's Global Gender Index, now coming 126th out of 146 countries in the 2024 report.

Unrecorded artist’s female figurine with hair in the “Hathor ... In northeast Sudan lies the Bayuda Desert, home to the Medieval Christian monastery of Ghazali. Although it was abandoned ...