Female coaches play a key role in inspiring achievement in girls and young women, but their numbers are few and they often burn out and quit, sports leaders said on Thursday.
Women hold one in five top jobs in science, technology, maths and engineering globally, which slows down innovation, a study of research institutions said on Thursday.
经济学家在一份新报告中指出，到2100年，气候变化将对各个国家——无论穷国还是富国、无论炎热的国家还是寒冷的国家——造成损害，从而消除了这样一种观点——贫穷、炎热的国家将在地球变暖中遭受最大痛苦。
U.S. martial artist Paige VanZant took her fight out of the ring and up to Ultimate Fighting Championship officials, calling for better pay for women in her sport, making her the latest h...
Climate change will damage the economies of countries whether they are rich or poor, hot or cold by the year 2100, economists said in a new report, dispelling the notion that impoverished...
Move over Ken, Barbie is going to be hanging out with some much more interesting and accomplished friends.
Fed up with being overlooked as a female scientist despite wading through mud carting heavy equipment and working twice as hard as her male colleagues, Dr. Ellen Currano is on a drive for...
Some of the wealthiest nations in the world provide little or no government-supported maternity or paternity leave for new parents, a United Nations report said on Thursday.
New York, April 17 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A female astronaut is due to set a record for the longest spaceflight by a woman, the U.S. space agency said on Wednesday, the same astro...
One in four U.S. teenage girls killed in a homicide is slain by her dating partner, research showed on Monday, exposing details about the "taboo" issue of dating violence among young people.
A U.S. Congressional committee on Tuesday held the first hearing on the Equality Act, legislation that would protect people nationwide from discrimination based on sexual orientation and ...
New York will become the first U.S. city to impose congestion pricing, seen as a key weapon against global warming, following lawmakers' approval on Monday of a state budget to fund the p...
Children under age 15 are almost three times more likely to die from diseases due to lack of clean water and sanitation than from violence in countries in conflict, the United Nations' ch...
Cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova was launched into space 55 years ago. She was followed nearly 20 years later by the second woman in space, Svetlana Savitskaya, who also did a spacewalk two...
Women across the economic spectrum are more vulnerable than men to losing their jobs to technology, according to a study released on Wednesday by the Institute for Women's Policy Research.
