Should I get treatment for the menopause?
Luisa Dillner: More than half of women going through the menopause report that their symptoms are affecting them. But with HRT linked to breast cancer, is there anything a GP can do to help?
High-fliers have more babies, according to study
Growing wealth divide allows high-fliers who can afford childcare to have families, study suggests
Efua Dorkenoo obituary
Determined campaigner against female genital mutilation
By removing photos of childbirth, Facebook is censoring powerful female images
Milli Hill: Birth is a fundamental feminist issue right now - women’s bodies should not be sanitised. Facebook should let us see it as it is
Japan’s pocchari trend celebrates ‘chubby’ women
Japan is a country where thinness is the norm. So can a trend embracing ‘chubbiness’ help young women reject fat-shaming stereotypes? By Abigail Haworth
UK to introduce measures to stop girls being taken abroad for FGM
Courts will be able to use FGM protection orders to prevent girls at risk being taken out of country
Efua Dorkenoo OBE, the ‘incredible African female warrior’, has died
Dorkenoo’s lifelong dream of a global, Africa-led movement against FGM was realised just a week before her death
Getting the message across
It’s not only the way that you say it that matters: it helps to be a powerful man, says Katharine Whitehorn
FGM: more than 1,700 women and girls treated by NHS since April
Public health minister heralds data collection on female genital mutilation as ‘major milestone’ on road to ending FGM in the UK
Anti-FGM activist Fahma Mohamed wins young campaigner award
Face of Guardian-backed drive to raise awareness of female genital mutilation named as winner of Good Housekeeping prize