I was fearful of my daughter’s Down syndrome diagnosis. I had much to learn and more to unlearn

As noninvasive prenatal screening becomes more common in Australia, Elizabeth Callinan wonders what it would have been like to get a high-chance result

‘Women feel they have no option but to give birth alone’: the rise of freebirthing

As Covid infections rose, hospital felt like an increasingly dangerous place to have a baby. But is labouring without midwives or doctors the answer?

The lost girls: ‘Chaotic and curious, women with ADHD all have missed red flags that haunt us’

After multiple burnouts, in my early 30s I finally knew why life sometimes felt harder for me. It made perfect sense, so why had no one noticed before?

Women bear brunt of Covid-related work stress, UK study finds

Report comes a day before World Mental Health Day and calls for four-day working week

Women in England struggling to access contraception as result of underfunding

Report calls for women to have access to progestogen-only contraceptive pills over counter

‘It destroys lives’: why the razor-blade pain of vaginismus is so misunderstood

This common condition can lead to relationship breakdown and unnecessary surgery. So why is treatment still so poor and underfunded?

I don’t regret my abortion. But the coronavirus lockdown made it a guilty secret

I got pregnant when I should have been social distancing. So now I can’t tell my friends or family about the termination

Covid-19 threatens access to abortions and contraceptives, experts warn

Unplanned pregnancy rates have fallen globally, report finds, but coronavirus could endanger access to services

The Guardian view on a women’s health scandal: under the skin

Editorial: An official review of vaginal mesh and medicines in pregnancy reveals systemic weaknesses, and sexism too

Doctors have failed when women in agony are dismissed as hysterics

The vaginal mesh scandal betrayed the intimate trust that should exist between doctor and patient, whatever their sex