Emma Watson joins celebrity backlash against new Alabama abortion law

A number of A-listers have spoken out against the abortion ban.

Men use gender swap filter to find out what it's really like to be a woman on Tinder

"I feel for women everywhere if this is what your inboxes look like"

A midlifer's guide to sex education

So they are modernising sex education. Finally. Making it more inclusive. FINALLY. But here are some lessons and truths that we really think should be included in the curriculum. Since sex is so confusing. For teenagers. And everyone else. Oof. Here are some bits and pieces that may help ‘frame’ the action. Because everything in life is about sex. But sex is always about something else... See? Confusing.

Tube etiquette: How to ride the Underground with style

There's a familiar sound on the Tube that belies collective contempt for those who don't know the rules. It goes: "Eye roll, tut, tssk". The unwritten etiquette guide for the Underground ensures that every passenger can travel anonymously, without undue attention. If you break it, you are thrust front and centre stage as punishment.

Is our fate decided the moment we're born? Why free will may be a (necessary) myth

Pretty pleased with yourself? Won the war with your waistline, picked the right partner, scaled the career ladder and formed some unassailable political views along the way? Bad news. You can take less credit for your life choices (and even those beliefs you hold dear) than you might like to think.

Internet users amazed by man who doesn't realise periods continue at night

"You’re really expecting me to know how periods work?"

Midlife career switchers: how more professionals are starting again

After a bank holiday weekend, it is easy to find your mind drifting towards the prospect of pastures new: training in something entirely different, perhaps, switching the office for life as an architect or engineer, gardener or restaurateur.

Davina McCall: 'I've been on dates – but why can't a woman be single and happy?'

She’s newly divorced and enjoying life like never before. Davina McCall discusses dating, G-strings, and that killer body with Louise Gannon

10 signs you're guilty of May-nia

Women are more risk averse when it comes to investing, finds biggest UK study into wealth

Leaders from Britain’s biggest financial institutions have pledged to make the finance industry a better place for women following a revealing report on how women approach wealth.

Women in Poland are posting #bananaselfies in support of banned 'suggestive' art

There’s a reason why your Instagram feed is probably flooded with images of people posing with bananas, and no, it’s not because the fruit has fallen prey to an awkward fashion trend. Polish protesters have been taking to social media to share their bananaselfies after artwork featuring bananas was deemed obscene by Poland’s authorities and removed from the National Museum in Warsaw.

Harriet Harman: 'Dear employer: Women are being treated badly as working mothers - this has to stop’

What would you say to your employer - current or previous - if you could? For tens of thousands of women in Britain, it would undoubtedly be something about motherhood.

Urine test could mark the end of smear tests

A trial has found that a urine test is just as accurate at detecting the HPV virus.

I married myself and it was truly empowering

The idea to marry myself came to me in January last year, when I was at work one day. Three weeks before, on Christmas Eve, I had received a text message from my boyfriend of five and a half years: “I can’t do this any more, it’s over,” it said. I was a 42-year-old with two children and I had already been divorced twice. It was devastating and left me in a funk, unable to eat, sleep or smile. 

The midlifer's guide to... having your photo taken

We are the most well-documented generation in history. There are so many photographs of us; too many photographs of us. Some good. Many ugly. Others shaming. Best not to think about it too much. Actually, let’s...

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Woman shares chilling story to highlight danger of using Uber

She grew worried after he began asking her questions and then asked her if she would go out with him.

My friend Lyra was killed by a terrorist's bullet. We'll never remember her as a victim

I want to tell you about my friend Lyra McKee. By now, you’ve probably read about her senseless murder on the streets of Derry on Thursday night during riots ahead of this weekend’s commemoration of Irish independence. Her death has drawn condemnation from all sides of Northern Ireland’s fractious political spectrum, and has left a gaping hole in the lives of everyone who knew her. She was just 29; a beloved friend, sister, aunt, daughter, and partner.

The moment I came face to face with a polar bear

Nothing quite prepares you for the moment you find yourself face to face with a polar bear. In my long career filming nature documentaries, I have encountered grizzly bears in Alaska and silverback mountain gorillas in Uganda and Rwanda, one of whom knocked me to the ground when he thought I threatened his family. But that didn’t make it any less frightening when I was stood less than ten metres from a polar bear, perhaps the most dangerous predator in the world.

10 signs that you're a midlife risk taker

Life sometimes feels as though it’s all about risk management. And this is because risk – though unnerving – is the magical thinking, the component in our most subliminal calculations that tells us relentlessly: go on, do it. Or lose the chance. So maybe that’s why we go and do crazy stuff like this? Never let it be said that we are not rock stars…

Introducing The 51 Per Cent: Our new straight-talking women's newsletter

Already, 2019 has been a momentous year for women.

Dame Kelly Holmes: You can’t prepare anyone for grief, but over time it becomes more manageable

We asked the 48-year-old Olympian what her younger self would make of her life today...

Cheryl: ‘You spend ages looking for the right man. Then he turns out to be the wrong man’

Just over a year after her split from Liam Payne, Cheryl is a new woman. Frank, focused, fired up – and ready to talk. She tells Louise Gannon about break-ups, breakdowns and how motherhood has helped her find happiness at last

How many of these Easter eating habits are you guilty of?

Because if you eat chocolate sitting on the sofa in your lying-down-wear then, despite all your best attempts to embrace the body-positivity movement, you will feel calorie guilt. On top of the ‘Jesus died on the cross for us and look what we are doing to the planet’ guilt. However we all know that if you lean up against the counter and annihilate a Caramel Egg it doesn’t count. In fact, you are probably burning calories with the strength it takes to stand up for long periods of time these days.

Upskirting is now a criminal offence in England and Wales

About time!