Women

Dr. Eveline Shue had always been a standout surgeon, but her most joyful moment at the hospital came when she could finally share some personal good news with her colleagues: After five cycles of in vitro fertilization, she was pregnant…

Last month, as the Food and Drug Administration paused use of Johnson & Johnson’s Covid-19 vaccine to evaluate the risk of blood clots in women under 50, many scientists noted that clots associated with birth control pills were much…

Southeast Asia's e-commerce market could grow by more than $280 billion by 2030 if major online shopping marketplaces do more to encourage and enable women entrepreneurs, a new report from the International Finance Corporation found.The…

A Bronx, NY resident receives a dose of coronavirus vaccine. A new initiative is pushing for state-funded family and sick leave as well as affordable childcare and care for the elderly.Recognition...James Estrin / The New York…

A health worker doses the Pfizer-BioNtech COVID-19 coronavirus vaccine to a pregnant woman on January 23, 2021 at Clalit Health Services in the Israeli Mediterranean coastal city of Tel Aviv.Jack Guez | AFP | Getty ImagesThe Centers for…

Holly Elgison and Len Schillaci are a mixed couple, and they are far from being alone."I always wanted to get 100 percent of the vaccine," said Ms. Elgison, a medical claims investigator in Valrico, Florida.Her husband, a disaster insurance…

Like many women during the pandemic, Alisa Stephens found working from home to be a series of tired challenges.Dr. Stephens is a biostatistician at the University of Pennsylvania, and the technical and detail-oriented nature of her work…

Life can change in an instant, as I experienced when I first saw a large and bizarrely showy bird known as the Greater Adjutant.It was India in 2018 in the northeastern state of Assam. I ended up there in part because of absurd…

About 3,700 years ago a man and a woman were buried together in the southeast of the Iberian Peninsula. Her grave was an egg-shaped vessel under the floor of a large hall in a sprawling hill complex called La Almoloya in what is now…

It all started with my mother Thelma Bataille, who worked in Silicon Valley for 30 years. For me she was one of those “hidden characters”. I grew up with women who work with technology, science, and computers. They were the women in our…