Women

Maria Xynou (OONI), Arturo Filastò (OONI), Mehul Gulati (OONI), Venny Ala-Siurua (Women on Web), Hannes-Jeremia Jaacks (Women on Web), 2026-07-28 In this report, we share OONI data on the blocking of the Women on Web (WoW) and Women Help Women … Read more

BY MORTEN BUSCH Sex chromosomes usually determine whether you are female or male. Women are XX. Men are XY. However, genetically, a few women are actually men. They grow up as women with a woman’s body, and most only discover … Read more

Students look for family and friends during UCLA’s commencement ceremony on June 16, 2023. (Sarah Reingewirtz/MediaNews Group/Los Angeles Daily News via Getty Images) Women between the ages of 25 and 34 continue to be more likely than men in the … Read more

Abstract The underrepresentation of women in open-source software is frequently attributed to women’s lack of innate aptitude compared to men: natural gender differences in technical ability (Trinkenreich et al., 2021). Approaching code as a form of communication, I conduct a … Read more

Under the command of Captain Robert Salmond, H.M.S. Birkenhead left Portsmouth in January 1852 taking troops to fight in the Frontier War in South Africa. The Birkenhead, one of the first iron hulled paddle steamers in service travelled to southern … Read more

Women Who Code started as a community group in 2011 by a small team of engineers in San Francisco who were seeking connection and support for navigating the tech industry. The movement grew, city by city, fueled by passionate volunteers … Read more

It is a sharp contrast to other countries, where men dominate fandom. Experts have a variety of explanations, including the influence of K-pop culture. Each time the South Korean men’s soccer team scored against Singapore during a recent 5-0 rout … Read more

Open this photo in gallery: Puvikalyan Pallegar, left, and Nikitha Kendyla, co-founders of Nucliq, chose to launch their startup in St. John’s.handout If cod fish is Newfoundland and Labrador’s past, its future may be technology. Powerhouse companies like Verafin and … Read more

In this excerpt from the BBC documentary Yesterday’s Witness: Two Victorian Girls (1970), a pair of women in their 90s recount coming of age in London in the late-Victorian era. Berta Ruck, who relocated from Wales and went on to … Read more

Half of all women getting 3D mammograms will experience a false positive over a decade of annual screening, a study published Friday in JAMA Network Open found. Why it matters: False positives — when a mammogram is flagged as abnormal, but … Read more