Armpits4August is making women’s body hair a feminist issue
Chloe Marshall: How a month-long campaign giving women the opportunity to grow their body hair will help to challenge gender assumptions
Why these female Apprentice finalists give me nothing to cheer about
Lara Whyte: Both Luisa Zissman and Leah Totton's ideas for profit, like their grooming regimes, are profoundly dispiriting
Abortion reform: changing Ireland
Editorial: The ultra-cautious bill has caused great controversy and become to some extent a lightning rod for other discontents
Enda Kenny threatened with excommunication over abortion reform
Irish government on course to push through protection of life in pregnancy bill
El Salvador abortion controversy shows lack of progress on Cairo agenda
Luisa Cabal: The Beatriz case has highlighted the need to integrate women's reproductive rights more firmly into international policy
Sexual health of adolescent girls: learning how to listen
Making young women researchers, not just research subjects, was the key to uncovering their real concerns and beginning behaviour change in one Tanzanian district, writes Jennifer McCleary-Sills
Seattle woman Naveena Shine drops attempt to live on light
Shine went for 47 days without food but says financial difficulties she's enduring are 'message from the universe that it is time to stop'
Comment of the week: whether men should cry
Bella Mackie: Comment of the week: This week, Ally Fogg explains why he chose a moving comment from DorianHawksmoon about being a man who cries 'too much'
Stephen Fry opens a window on to male depression – we must let boys cry
Ally Fogg: The comedian has been outspoken about his battle with depression. But many men struggle to talk due to childhood messages to toughen up
Adding salt to sweet will always be a seller
Emma Sturgess: Concerns about hidden salt levels in biscuits are well founded, but conspicuous consumption in the form of salted caramels has won over fans from Nigella Lawson to Barack Obama