All you have to do is walk down the street to see an overwhelming number of ads telling women exactly how to look and act. The kinds of images that females are surrounded by attempt to control their ...

"We want to see ourselves," Viola Davis said in her acceptance speech for best actress in a drama series at this year's Screen Actors Guild Awards. "We want to be inspired by that. I sometimes want ...

Melisa McKenna is a talented illustrator whose vibrant and uplifting artwork inspires women around the world. Born in Istanbul, she moved to England more than two decades ago to pursue her studies in ...

Women’s social network Peanut has released a digital gallery of illustrations which aims to challenge a lack of representation of women in healthcare. The gallery, titled “The Reframing Revolution” is ...

Mae Jemison, “The first black woman in space.” The astronaut is also an engineer and physician who conducted experiments about motion sickness and weightlessness onboard the space shuttle in 1992.

"The Reframing Revolution" shows women at various stages of pregnancy and womanhood, including life after a C-section. Credit: Peanut. A 2018 study by Soc Sci Med came to a sorry conclusion: Medical ...

You've probably heard this sentence about a dozen times. But to Maliha Abidi, it means a lot more. The 23-year-old artist hails from England and her Instagram page caught our eye, thanks to her ...

Women may be entering the workforce in droves, but that doesn't mean they're treated equally. Unlike their male counterparts, women in positions of power are often expected to navigate a fine line ...

That seems to be the general message that women receive. If you're not being banned for wearing an item of swimwear which covers too much skin, then you're being criticised for showing too much skin.

When Brazilian graphic designer Carol Rossetti began posting colorful illustrations of women and their stories to Facebook, she had no idea how popular they would become. Thousands of shares ...

Despite all of the public outrage re: women still getting unfairly judged based on their clothing choices in 2016, the phenomenon has, unfortunately, persisted as strongly as ever. Just yesterday, a ...