However strong the social and economic benefits, the question of how we connect more women still remains.
The increasingly disjointed nature of life in urban slums means there’s no network of family support for mothers who want to work.
We’ll deliver your baby but sepsis control is your problem, say the country’s rural clinics.
We’ll deliver your baby but sepsis control is your problem, say the country’s rural clinics.
Peace negotiations influenced by women are more likely to end in agreement and to endure.
How to go beyond platitudes when it comes to teenage sexuality and abuse? One NGO has a solution: teach young women to know their worth and rights.
In each of the SADC’s 15 member countries, millions of women traders are putting SADC’s vision into practice.
"If President Jacob Zuma says young women must marry and other things, let’s not make a big thing out of it," the ANC Women’s League president said.
Women priests who defy Catholic doctrine and demand equality should be applauded.
Poverty and unfair expectations can lead women to commit acts of desperate violence.
Its vulgarity and crudeness aside, the fact that abuse is hurled at women with such ease and nonchalance, and no fear of repercussion, made me angry.
Women are extraordinary – just see what they are capable of doing, despite the odds.
Where was the missing link that allowed for the publishing of the contentious Grazia tweet? Some of our colleagues at the M&G weighed in.
The Africa by Women project has resulted in 10 short films that deal with different facets of life in the country 20 years after democracy.
Women migrants have carved out a peculiar niche in the strangeness of the city of Johannesburg – a part of it, but also apart
An ancient piece of papyrus that contains a mention of Jesus’s wife is not a forgery, according to Columbia, Harvard and MIT scientific analysis.
Girls Invent Tomorrow’s nationwide roadshow aims to educate high school girls about jobs in science, technology, engineering and mathematics.
Go to the wives, widows and children to get the story, says an author and activist.
Women need only seven seats, mostly on the bottom deck, on the £1-trillion double-decker bus revealed by Oxfam this week.
After coming under criticism for having a lack of diversity in its female cast, "Saturday Night Live" has cast comedian Sasheer Zamata.
Latvia is poised to get its first woman prime minister after the country’s president tasked Laimdota Straujuma with forming a new government.
Finalist: Drivers of Change Individual Award — Sandra Millar
Enough of the wretched gender bias that casts women’s technical savvy in a disdainful light.
South African scientists shone at the 2013 L’Oréal-Unesco regional fellowship for women in science in sub-Saharan Africa.
Was launching M&G Women a smart move? Site editor Aliki Karasaridis and editor-in-chief Chris Roper debate the pros and cons with readers.
Being beautiful can be a curse for young women – some of whom are seen as nothing more than replaceable trophies, writes Khaya Dlanga.
An overview of how South Africans spend their time shows that men get more time to socialise while women work in the home.
Transforming the science and research landscape through the Thuthuka programme.
Winner: Professor Nareadi Phasha
They have suffered the most in 20 years of killings, rape and displacement.
Would you like it if your sister or daughter were to be described as "le way", asks Khaya Dlanga.
Alex Clark asks if the review pages still bestow a "secondhand status" on women.