So-called “women’s studies” programs began cropping up on campuses across the country in the 1970s. Although they started largely in imitation of the militant black studies programs that had swept the ...

Women are underrepresented among authors of retracted publications, particularly in cases involving multiple retractions, ...

For decades, hormone replacement therapies carried warnings that they increased the risk of cancer and dementia. Now, that ...

Pre-eclampsia, a condition that causes dangerously high blood pressure, is a leading cause of death among mothers and babies.

New research is challenging everything we thought we knew about ageing and fertility. Studies now show that sperm deteriorate ...

Fifty-four years ago, Irene Thompson stood before a sea of 370 students, preparing to teach UF’s first women-oriented course. She felt overwhelmed. The English department thought she was out of her ...

‘M. Jacqui Alexander and Beverly Guy-Sheftall in Conversation,’ the keynote event for WGSS @ 50, the 50th anniversary of UConn’s WGSS program. The conversation was wide-ranging and explored ...

I teach at the only all-girls school in the state of Minnesota. We are also a devoted Catholic community, founded by the Visitation Sisters to educate young women in virtue, intellect, mind and heart.

The Department of Women and Gender Studies at the University of Delaware offers a dynamic and interdisciplinary program that explores the complexities of gender and its intersections with other social ...

Texas Christian University will dissolve its Departments of Women and Gender Studies and Comparative Race and Ethnic Studies, ...

Muskaan Siddique, senior in LAS, received the Mary Ramier Grant on behalf of the Department of Gender and Women’s Studies on March 1. Siddique plans to use this grant to fund her project about the ...

More than 500 women have received honorary degrees at a special graduation ceremony, some more than 70 years after completing ...