The United States is ending its financial support for family planning programs in developing countries, cutting nearly 50 million women off from access to contraception. This policy change has attracted little attention amid the wholesale dismantling of American foreign aid, but it stands to have enormous implications, including more maternal deaths and an overall increase…
By AFP Published March 31, 2025 Five women who allege being abused by the late billionaire Mohamed Al-Fayed are planning to launch a legal claim against his estate, UK-based lawyers said Monday. Al-Fayed – AFP Law firm Leigh Day said it had taken the first step in the legal process to bring personal injury claims…
“Does Brittany look oppressed to you?” Gabriel Hugoboom asked, gesturing toward his wife. Mrs. Hugoboom did not. The model, clad in thigh-high black boots, was perched on a cream-colored couch in the couple’s new apartment, poking fun at her critics. As editor in chief of Evie, a women’s publication opposed to what she calls “modern”…
Abortion bans successfully prevented some women from getting abortions in the immediate aftermath of the Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v. Wade, according to a detailed new study of birth data from 2023. The effects were most pronounced among women in certain groups — Black and Hispanic women, women without a college degree, and women…
I have seen women in neckties everywhere. I love this look and all the messages about power and business that it sends. But how do I pull it off without looking gimmicky or as if I’m copying Diane Keaton? — Jayne, Washington, D.C. There is a certain irony that just as men liberated themselves from…