Europe

Iceland is seen globally as a bastion of equality, a place where the rights of all citizens are upheld regardless of gender. But even Iceland doesn’t have full parity when…

Nygaard, 82, exploited his ‘status’ to carry out assaults on women in a bedroom suite at his fashion headquarters in Toronto, prosecutors said Disgraced former fashion mogul Peter Nygaard has…

In a recent study published in BMC Medicine, researchers quantified the extent to which obstetric and neonatal factors mediated the relationship between three maternal metabolic conditions, presentational diabetes mellitus (PGDM), gestational…

RUSSIA/Russia has begun to recruit women for front-line roles in Ukraine for the first time amid the country’s rising death toll in the war, according to an independent news outlet.…

Women who receive a false positive mammograms result are more likely to develop breast cancer over the subsequent 20 years, report researchers from Karolinska Institute in a study published in JAMA…

Study: Maternal oxidative stress during pregnancy associated with emotional and behavioural problems in early childhood: Implications for foetal programming.

Mumsnet found 79% of the 1,000 women who answered their questionnaire had experienced some form of birth trauma, with 53% saying it had put them off from having more children.…

The “glass ceiling” may not be the primary hurdle for women in the workplace. Instead, it’s the “broken rung” that occurs early in women’s careers, according to a new report.…

UNITEDKINGDOM/Women are also less likely to say they have checked their state pension age, according to Royal London. Women are around twice as likely as men to be expecting to…

As country manager, Hannah Lewis has full responsibility for Amex’s 6,000 staff in the UK. As a female leader of one of the biggest financial services’ names in the UK,…