Why mothers should expect less of themselves and more of their partner

Tiffany Dufu had motherhood and her return to work all planned out – until her scheme fell apart. But her crisis became her salvation

Michigan doctor charged with carrying out female genital mutilation

Jumana Nagarwala is accused of performing FGM on girls aged between six and eight for the past 12 years from a medical office in the Detroit suburb of Livonia

‘My endometriosis diagnosis took 20 years’: readers on their struggles for help

Gynaecological problems are common. So why is it so hard to get help for them? Four women told us their stories

I have vulvodynia – but countless gynaecologists dismissed my agony

Statistics say that one in six women will contract this painful condition. So why did it take years and endless misdiagnoses before I was properly treated?

Talking about your miscarriage doesn’t make you ‘privileged’

After the writer Ariel Levy wrote about losing her baby, she was attacked for her ‘entitlement’ – but you don’t need to be hurting more than everyone in the world to say you’re suffering

Motherless mothers: the one I need to share all this weight of love is not here

Soon after discovering she was pregnant, the ITV newsreader Charlene White felt the pain of losing her mother all the more keenly

The Rules Do Not Apply by Ariel Levy review – a memoir of wanting too much

The New Yorker writer had a life that balanced domesticity with intellectual and sexual adventure. Then it fell apart

Prisoners of the Paula Principle: why women work below their abilities

This persistent injustice is also a waste of talent – and men as well as women need to see why before we can change it, says Tom Schuller

‘All my friends had some nightmare experience trying to get pregnant. My story took the cake’

At five months pregnant, Ariel Levy lost her baby. After four more years of IVF, had she left motherhood too late?

‘Golden trio’ of moves boosts chances of female orgasm, say researchers

Study sheds light on approaches, revealing ‘orgasm gaps’ both between the sexes and those with different sexual orientations