Women and girls are the first to suffer when drought strikes poor and rural areas, and water strategies around the world must reflect this, the…
View More Women and girls suffer first when droughts hit poor and rural areas, says UNTag: Women
Thousands of UK women owed pension payout after ombudsman’s Waspi ruling
Thousands of women, potentially hundreds of thousands, are owed compensation because of government failings related to the way changes to the state pension age were…
View More Thousands of UK women owed pension payout after ombudsman’s Waspi ruling‘They’re at the forefront’: the women leading the way through Britain’s farming crisis
Back in the 1970s, Holly Collins was studying for her A-levels in Sussex. While her friends sent off their university applications, she wrote to the…
View More ‘They’re at the forefront’: the women leading the way through Britain’s farming crisisWomen added to Cop29 climate summit committee after backlash
The president of Azerbaijan has added 12 women to the previously all-male organising committee for the Cop29 global climate summit, which the country will host…
View More Women added to Cop29 climate summit committee after backlashAzerbaijan appoints no women to 28-member Cop29 climate committee
The organising committee for the Cop29 global climate change summit in Azerbaijan in December comprises 28 men and no women, the president of Azerbaijan, Ilham…
View More Azerbaijan appoints no women to 28-member Cop29 climate committeeGender pay gap for UK women aged 40 and over ‘will not close till they are pensioners’
UK women aged 40 and older will not experience the closure of the gender pay gap until after they reach state pension age, according to…
View More Gender pay gap for UK women aged 40 and over ‘will not close till they are pensioners’Pregnancy leads to permanent rewiring of brain, study suggests
Pregnancy leads to a permanent rewiring of neurons, according to research that gives new insights into the influence of hormones on behaviour. The research, in…
View More Pregnancy leads to permanent rewiring of brain, study suggestsNew mothers may have enhanced ability to see faces in objects
Whether it’s seeing Jesus in burnt toast, a goofy grin in the grooves of a cheese grater, or simply the man in the moon, humans…
View More New mothers may have enhanced ability to see faces in objectsGiant leap for women: early ‘lady’ astronomers have asteroids named in their honour
They charted the stars for pitiful wages, knowing their observations about the universe would be attributed to male colleagues, and died in relative obscurity, their…
View More Giant leap for women: early ‘lady’ astronomers have asteroids named in their honour‘He took every penny’: the women left with a debt mountain by coercive partners
“I’ve got nothing. I’ve worked for 26 years and the only asset I have is my pension. I have no savings, no home and my…
View More ‘He took every penny’: the women left with a debt mountain by coercive partners