24 h. ago Nun praises pope’s roles for women but hopes successor can make more progress

Pope Francis appointed more women to leadership roles than any previous pontiff.

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4 d. ago Scottish Prison Service facing calls to 'ensure jails are single sex'

Campaign group Keep Prisons Single Sex said women prisoners "hope and pray that this ruling will prompt SPS to change their policy".

Events

9 d. ago SNP MSP hopeful 'called women at indy student group lazy cows'

Lloyd Melville, a councillor in Angus, was offered equalities training due to complaints about his behaviour towards women.

Politics

1 week ago Melissa Andreatta's appointment as Scotland Women manager injects hope

The Scotland Women’s national team need some TLC - and I think Melissa Andreatta can provide that, and more.

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1 week ago What is MRKH? Womb transplant at London hospital offers hope to women with rare condition

Procedure could be a game-changer for thousands of women born without a womb

Science

2 w. ago Baby girl makes history as first child born in the UK from a transplanted womb

The news gives hope to thousands of women born without a womb or whose womb fails to function.

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2 w. ago Girl named Amy becomes first baby in the UK born from a womb transplant

The news gives hope to thousands of women born without a womb or whose womb fails to function.

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2 w. ago Girl becomes first baby in the UK born from a womb transplant

The news gives hope to thousands of women born without a womb or whose womb fails to function

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2 w. ago Birth following UK’s first womb transplant gives hope to thousands of women

Experts believe a maximum of 20 to 30 womb transplants per year could be carried out in the UK in the future.

Politics

3 w. ago Yoko Ono is now getting acclaim, but why do rock stars’ female partners get so much abuse? | Barbara Ellen

Ono was blamed for splitting the Beatles and taking John Lennon from his true calling. Let’s hope things are getting easier for women who date famous musiciansMore than 50 years after John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s 1969 bed-in, protesting against war, Ono finally gets her love-in. David Sheff’s biography Yoko, published last week, seeks to put the record straight about her stellar achievements as an internationally renowned conceptual artist.In recent years there have been retrospectives, including one at London’s Tate Modern. Kevin Macdonald’s docufilm, One To One: John And Yoko, is released in the UK next month. Ono, 92, is seeing reputational rehabilitation on a global scale, and all a long time coming. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Amanda Abbington beams after revealing hope to join Loose Women panel

Actress Amanda Abbington was full of smiles as she stepped out of a theatre on her show's preview night amid rumours she is set to join the Loose Women panel

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