Women | The Guardian Skip to main contentSkip to navigation
Print subscriptions
Sign in
Search jobs
Search
The Guardian - Back to homeThe Guardian

Women

  • Illustration of Mila and Oliver being catapulted

    This is how we do it: ‘The threesomes are on hold while we try for a baby’

    Mila and Oliver’s bedroom activity was centred on exploring their fantasies, but trying to conceive means sex is now more about fertility than kink
  • Picture of woman with grey roots

    My once-dyed hair is greying naturally, but my roots look awful

  • Meredith on Harry's shoulders, both having fun

    This is how we do it: ‘We were both anxious when we met, but our sex life is a lot of fun now’

  • Happy smiling mother holding her newborn baby after being born in a bath

    Water births do not increase risk of complications, study finds

  • Illustration of a couple sitting on either side of a window, with a mother and child in the background

    I got married knowing I didn’t want children, and that my husband felt the same. Then he had a change of heart

  • Malcolm and Simone Collins and three of their children sitting on a bench

    America’s premier pronatalists on having ‘tons of kids’ to save the world, Marina Hyde on the election campaign trail, and is doing nothing the secret of happiness? – podcast

Loads more stories and moves focus to first new story.

News

  • Patrick Grant, host of the BBC show The Great British Sewing Bee, in a blue suit and tie

    ‘Is this what people wear now?’ Sewing Bee host criticises M&S jumpers and socks

  • ‘Even executives have dreams’ … Meryl Streep at the Cannes film festival.

    Meryl Streep: it’s ‘hardest thing’ for men to see themselves in female characters

  • Portrait photograph of Shirley Conran

    Shirley Conran, campaigner and ‘queen of the bonkbuster’, dies aged 91

  • Saudi Arabia women’s rights activist Manahel al-Otaibi has been sentenced to 11 years for ‘terrorist offences’.

    Saudi Arabia activist sentenced to 11 years in prison for ‘support’ of women’s rights

Loads more stories and moves focus to first new story.

Talking points

  • A silhouette of a woman in a seated yoga pose

    We should embrace our inner goddess – but let’s not create another test for women to fail

    Jackie Bailey
  • Nell Frizzell

    I hate cleaning my home. Can I do yours instead?

    Nell Frizzell
    • Three woman holding their mobile phones outside and looking at the screens

      No dating apps, no dates, no exes, no hookups: what’s driving the ‘boy sober’ trend?

      Lisa Portolan
    • Emma Beddington

      Young women are telling each other to ‘date rich’. How terrifyingly retro

      Emma Beddington
    • Barbara Ellen

      Demanding a haircut without talking is just rude – how important do you think you are?

      Barbara Ellen
Loads more stories and moves focus to first new story.

Video

  • Old Lesbians: reclaiming old age and queerness through storytelling

  • The TV personality and a patron of the campaign group Menopause Mandate voiced her displeasure at the behaviour of government equalities ministers, whom she accused of ignoring the needs of menopausal women

    3:04

    Carol Vorderman 'absolutely disgusted' by ministers' attitude to menopause – video

    The TV personality and a patron of the campaign group Menopause Mandate voiced her displeasure at the behaviour of government equalities ministers, whom she accused of ignoring the needs of menopausal women
  • The Taliban said they wanted peaceful relations with other countries and would respect the rights of women 'within the limits of Islam', as they held their first press conference since seizing Kabul. During their rule between 1996 and 2001, the Taliban implemented their own strict interpretation of sharia law, preventing women from working and girls from going to school.Taliban seek no ‘revenge’ and all Afghans will be ‘forgiven’

    1:15

    Women's rights will be respected 'within the limits of Islam', say Taliban – video

    The Taliban said they wanted peaceful relations with other countries and would respect the rights of women 'within the limits of Islam', as they held their first press conference since seizing Kabul. During their rule between 1996 and 2001, the Taliban implemented their own strict interpretation of sharia law, preventing women from working and girls from going to school.

Loads more stories and moves focus to first new story.

Women in politics

  • Birthday card for a man with a silhouette of a footballer on the front and the words "Happy Birthday"

    The card that’s a sign of eternal friendship

  • Women sewing machinists from the Ford Motor Company plant in Dagenham taking strike action in June 1968.

    How can women get equality? Strike!

    Sally Howard
  • Tulip Siddiq is the Labour MP for Hampstead & Kilburn. She recently postponed her caesarian section to vote on the Brexit deal - has since given birth to Raphael.

    Tulip Siddiq: ‘I needed a caesarean – instead I was at parliament’

  • Lady Gaga, Michelle Obama, Rihanna, Adele and Angela Merkel

    In praise of loud women – the joy and power of being noisy and female

Loads more stories and moves focus to first new story.

Most viewed