Children learn what it means to be a woman or a man early on. How they respond to threats to how well they conform to gender stereotypes changes with age.

Michigan celebrated its best women’s basketball players for the first time this season, honoring Diane Dietz, Katelynn Flaherty Yates and Naz Hillmon by raising maize banners to the rafters at Crisler ...

A new study suggests that teen girls use so-called nudification apps at the same rate as teen boys. The artificial ...

Dr Josephine Kulea, founder of the Samburu Girls Foundation, which has rescued and educated over 3,000 girls from harmful cultural practices — including FGM, child marriage and beading — in 15 years.

The Scrabble Board was laid out on the table.  My sister, brother, and I arranged our tiles and began to play. After a few rounds, just as I was going to place the word ...

Also teaching at a government school after work, Bhargavi was one among many girls felicitated by CRY as “girl achievers” ahead of Women’s Day. Velagala Nandini, a Dalit girl from Kapileswarapuram ...

A Norwegian eighth-grader can feel like they’re doing fine at school, safe enough in the hallways, and still carry a quiet story about themselves that shifts depending on whether they are a boy or a ...

It’s long been thought that autism is far more prevalent in boys than girls. But findings from a new study looking at data across more than three decades suggest that may not be the case. Researchers ...

New research challenged the longstanding belief that autism is much more common in males versus females. In a Swedish study of 2.7 million people, male-to-female ratios in autism diagnoses were nearly ...

For Gen Alpha, social girlhood no longer takes place only in school or on the playground. It plays out online, through social media and online trends that will be the topics of discussion with friends ...

New findings are pushing researchers to explore coffee’s potential influence on an enzyme central to how the body converts carbohydrates into blood sugar. New research from China's Kunming Institute ...