men reported about 4.4 sexual partners and women about 4.0. Despite stereotypes, a significant proportion of men – as many as 1 in 6 – regularly have low levels of sexual desire, meaning low ...

Ending poverty and injustice starts with gender justice and rights for women. Gender discrimination and persecution threaten the safety and dignity of millions of women around the world. Queer, trans, ...

Women enjoy most freedoms today that men enjoy, and have joined the American work force in droves to work as doctors, lawyers, teachers, designers, truck drivers and in many other professions.

New Ice Treatment Can Kill Breast Cancer TumorsA new technique that freezes and destroys small cancerous tumors may offer new hope to women with breast cancer who cannot have surgery. U.S. Bird ...

Women, as it turns out, are an excellent risk. Worldwide, microfinance loans serve almost 20 million people living in poverty. 74% of these clients are women. At the Grameen Bank, the world’s largest ...

Warshaw Collection of Business Americana, Archives Center, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution American beauty standards and practices for women were also affected by the ...

In four years, American industrial production, already the world's largest, doubled in size. "You felt that you ... While 16 million men and women marched to war, 24 million more moved in search ...

Equality between women and men (gender equality): refers to the equal rights, responsibilities and opportunities of women and men and girls and boys. Equality does not mean that women and men will ...

Since their relatively recent appearance on the commercial scene, rare-earth magnets have made quite a splash in the public imagination. The amount of magnetic energy packed into these tiny, shiny ...

The United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), an expert body established in 1982, is composed of 23 experts on women's issues from around the world.

That means the death rate is 0.0005%. Mifepristone’s safety is on par with those of common over-the-counter pain relievers like ibuprofen and acetaminophen, studies show. Data analyzed by CNN ...