Hosai Ismail Khan is the pseudonym of a female journalist in Afghanistan who has written Sonia’s story using her own words; ...

Lost in the cobwebs of life were all the empty Passover holidays over the past 40 years where my daughter’s seat at the Seder stood empty. I recalled the warmth we once shared and how she pleaded to ...

I can’t help but wonder what the long-term consequences are to a society that suppresses our empathy and humanity in the name of self care?

“Made in Dagenham” opens Nov. 19 and is sure to boost English machinist Rita O’Grady into the woman-worker-warrior ranks of Norma Rae and Karen Silkwood. There’s plenty more in store this month, ...

Credit: mlgkhc on Flickr, under Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0). (WOMENSENEWS)–Sakia’Lynn Johnson was cautiously optimistic. Last year, as one of two African American international board certified ...

The fact that medical professionals seldom ask women whether they served in the military upon assigning them a diagnosis is just one of the reasons why many female veterans fail to receive the ...

In March, 2020 the world as we knew it changed. Nations worldwide started locking down and governments began mandating masking and physical distancing, while recommending robust hand hygiene and ...

Military service is one of the nation’s most rewarding yet consequential careers, offering purpose and honor while exposing those who serve to profound and lasting health risks. For women, these ...

Women now make up a majority of residents and fellows for the first time in history, but this growth is not being translated into the field of surgery. I was recently invited to give a keynote address ...

As the government wipes important sexual health information from official websites and targets research funding simply for the presence of words like “women” and “sex,” it’s more important than ever ...