Many women scientists are staying silent online—and it could be costing them professionally. A new University of Michigan ...

A new preclinical study from Monash University has uncovered the role of the female sex hormone estrogen in protecting the ...

Japan is the only country in the world that legally requires married couples to share the same family name — and that creates ...

Despite more complex reproductive organs and fewer resources, female bodies are built to get through hardship and disease, ...

Experts have long known that women are at a greater risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease. They’re twice as likely to be ...

As a result, women were left out of most exercise science and biomedical research until the late 20th century. Even today, ...

New research on Monday contradicted the commonly held idea that males dominate females among primates, revealing far more ...

A neglected piece of the Alzheimer's puzzle has been getting increased scientific attention: why women are twice as likely as ...

Rozalia is back in class—thanks to a fully-funded opportunity that is changing the lives of hundreds of girls across Tanzania ...

Spaceflight has a gender problem. Depending on how you count, 700-ish people have been to space, but only about 100 of them ...

Far more families are choosing to have fewer — or no — children. Many countries, including the U.S., now face a rapidly aging ...

Becoming UNILAG's first female professor of political science, for Maryam Omolara Quadri, is a journey sparked early in life.