In the 1970s, the agency that provides health care to Native Americans sterilized thousands of women without their full and informed consent.

Minnesota has zero convictions for female genital mutilation despite hundreds of thousands at risk nationwide and the state's ...

A staggering 840 million women and adolescent girls worldwide have experienced physical violence, sexual violence, or both by an intimate partner or sexual violence by a non-partner at least once in ...

A research team at the IPK Leibniz Institute has developed a method that enables the detailed observation of female ...

Menstrual cramps are common and often occur before and during the menstrual cycle. Ectopic pregnancies are medical emergencies that can cause severe pain and complications. Endometriosis causes tissue ...

In 2017, Ashley Moffett, a reproductive immunologist, walked to the pharmacy near her laboratory at the University of Cambridge, UK, to buy a pregnancy test. But it wasn’t for Moffett. Her postdoc, ...

I agree with Adam Taor that some of the terminology used for female anatomy, especially reproductive parts, is extremely paternalistic, if not outright misogynistic, and could do with revision(14 June ...

It’s not just about chromosomes. Or reproductive cells. Or any other binary metric. Many genetic, environmental and developmental variations can produce what are thought of as masculine and feminine ...

Scientists published a full genetic sequence of the genes that make some white campions male, and hope their work could unlock how the flower got that way. By Veronique Greenwood The vast majority of ...

President Donald Trump issued an executive order defining the terms "male" and "female" based on whether a person belongs "at conception" to the sex that produces sperm or eggs. Neither sperm nor eggs ...