Gifting moms vacation days is cute – but could we give them rights instead?

American women aren’t guaranteed paid maternity leave – and colleagues plugging the gaps is nothing to celebrate

What does childbirth feel like? You asked Google – here’s the answer

Every day millions of people ask Google life’s most difficult questions. Our writers answer some of the commonest queries

Kick pushchair-chasing companies like Emma’s Diary out of our hospitals

Using the NHS to gain commercial access to pregnant women and new mothers is totally unacceptable

Writer Chidera Eggerue on what #SaggyBoobsMatter is really about

She started a movement with one simple question: why should only small-boobed women go braless? Now, Eggerue has written a book she calls an antidote to the self-help scene

Breastfeeding is still political – as Donald Trump’s bullying tactics prove

The US’s attempt to prevent a WHO resolution to limit the promotion of baby formula shows that neoimperialism is alive and well

Seven ways IVF changed the world – from Louise Brown to stem-cell research

The first ‘test-tube’ baby turns 40 this month, but the impact of in vitro fertilisation extends far beyond solutions to fertility problems

Forty years since Fat Is A Feminist Issue

Susie Orbach never imagined her classic book would still be so relevant decades later

Germaine, your shock-jock musings just alienate today’s young feminists

With her views on rape, Germaine Greer has torpedoed the chance for women of all generations to find common cause

At times I can’t tell where I end and my migraines begin

Migraines are excruciatingly painful, but it’s more personal than that, says Eva Wiseman, a regular sufferer

Why pregnant and breastfeeding models are the key to bumper sales

From Chanel to Victoria’s Secret, visible bumps and breastfeeding are increasingly being used to sell clothes. It says a lot about fashion’s changing relationship with women