A female prison guard had phone sex with an inmate and flooded his mom with 900 messages to keep the relationship going, a court in the UK has heard. Megann Gibson, 26, also allowed the ...

Some of the most famous ships in history have sailed with female names on their hull. Queen Elizabeth. Mary Celeste. Lady Washington. Even now, seafarers still refer to vessels as "she." It doesn ...

Kate Collins has worked on an all-female nonprofit team since starting a new job in 2024. In the past, she's worked in male-dominated media workplaces with rigid, then lenient, boundaries.

Technology’s many automated female voices are nothing if not helpful. By Susan Dominus Artwork by Yehwan Song Susan Dominus is a staff writer at The New York Times Magazine and the author of the ...

In this quick breakdown, we'll show you exactly what makes a USB port "male" or "female," and how to tell them apart without overthinking it. Let's connect the dots and get you plugged in properly.

Blue Origin will launch an all-female spaceflight with Katy Perry on Monday morning (April 14), and you can watch the historic action live. Perry and her crewmates — Aisha Bowe, Amanda Nguyễn ...

The mid-1990s saw female artists who deliberately challenged hip-hop’s masculine norms by embracing hyper-feminine presentations while delivering razor-sharp verses that commanded respect.

E2E Female 100 list for 2025 revealed E2E, in association with The Independent and in partnership with Universal Partners, proudly unveils the 2025 E2E Female 100 track. Partner Content ...

In 2024, companies with at least one female founder raised $38.8 billion in venture capital funding. That’s a 27 percent increase from the year, but well off the high point of $62.5 billion in 2021.

While some public officials will not raise their voices in defense of the girls in their states, we will – for ourselves, for our teammates and for the countless female athletes to follow.

Here are a few interesting nuggets from the report: Female-founded businesses in Europe raised €5.76 billion in 2024, marking a 12% drop from the €6.56 billion these companies raised in 2023.

However, the wording of the executive order's definitions of "male" and "female" did leave room for interpretations contrary to the spirit of the order — for example, that all humans are neither ...