Special Edition

As more women contribute to the economy, life gets better for everyone. Why are the barriers to opportunity so hard to change?

A leader of a major report on sexual misconduct explains how to make science accessible to everyone

Technical advances are driving a boom in egg freezing, which promises to let women put off pregnancy indefinitely. But will the science live up to the hype?

Study shows a cost for males who defy gender stereotypes

The debate over whether men and women have meaningfully different brains could have profound implications for health and personal identity

How a misplaced emphasis on genius subtly discourages women and Black people from certain academic fields

Age-old taboos against menstruation have led to a lack of research on how women's cycles work, with serious consequences for their health

Female puberty is starting earlier and earlier, with worrying consequences for women’s health

Stolen people—mostly women and children—were a driving force in the evolution of modern society

Men and women have different ways of speaking, but research reveals the conversational gender divide is not as stark as it seems

The placenta does a whole lot more than just ferry oxygen and nutrients to the fetus and take away wastes and carbon dioxide

Endometriosis spreads like a vine through the bodies of roughly 176 million women worldwide, causing agony and infertility. Science has struggled to understand the condition, but new research is sparking hope for improved treatments soon

A study shows growing national wealth and gender equality accentuates differences in the types of choices men and women make

The gender gap remains a global phenomenon  

Two thirds of all U.S. maternal deaths are considered preventable. Racism—not race—is a critical factor

The notion that behavioral differences between the sexes are innate and immutable does not hold up under scrutiny

Researchers and doctors must dig deeper into gender differences before they can provide women with better treatments

The IUD is held up as the gold standard of contraception. That says a lot about the slothful pace of innovation

Traditions that favor sons in Asia—resulting in millions of dead or neglected girls—have started to change

A host of factors figure into whether someone is female, male or somewhere in between