The app that aims to tackle the chronic NHS midwife shortage

Ask the Midwife provides fully qualified advice on pregnancy and baby health, and taps into a trend for women to consult apps during pregnancy

Boys as well as girls should be told about the evils of FGM

Information on FGM should be available for all, but it’s the males that need educating, says Katharine Whitehorn

‘There will be more deaths’: NGOs on Trump’s anti-abortion rule

We asked NGOs how the reinstatement of the ‘global gag’ rule will impact what they do, and the people they work with. Here are some of the responses

Anti-FGM campaign launched in UK to mark global day of opposition

Red Triangle initiative aims to encourage people to give police information to detect and prevent female genital mutilation

Letter to my daughter: my hopes for 2017

A year ago anti-FGM campaigner Leyla Hussein wrote to her teenage daughter about her hopes for her generation in 2016. She had no idea what was to follow

London FGM clinic to close after funding cut

Since opening in 2007, Acton clinic has seen more than 1,000 women and houses experts in the field of female genital mutilation

This Khloé Kardashian campaign finally strips ‘empowerment’ of all meaning

Protein World’s marketers may not be the first to cynically co-opt the word that once symbolised hope, but they have succeeded in reducing it to an empty husk

What does the trend for smaller nipples say about us?

Cosmetic surgeons report a rise in nipple surgery. Perhaps we should have seen this coming

‘As she is born, part of me is dying’ – how becoming a mother changes you

Books speak of pregnancy as a pastel-hued dream. But the idea that suddenly you have so much more to lose can be frightening

Women suffer much more work stress than men, says psychiatrist

Sexism in the workplace and family responsibilities add to pressure as they face unequal pay and lack of support