WOMEN S MEDICINE

During the time when many young women were denied even a high school education, Elizabeth Blackwell was not only the first openly female candidate accepted into a medical school, but the first woman to graduate in the United States with a medical degree.

If you were a woman with ambition, drive or talent in the early 1900s, here are the few professions and job opportunities that were open to you in America and Britain.

Women have been overlooked throughout history. This lack is based on the assumption that thoughts and activities of women were not important enough to write down and save for future generations. Author Gillian Clark attempts to fill part of this lack.

Stop the depiction of realistic older women's faces in witch's masks.

Orchids have been a decretory flower ever since history was etched into stone walls, and used in medicine just as long, if not even longer.

Men naturally look for women with wider hips and smaller waists. They're evolutionary engineered that way because those are signs of fertility. But what do women want in men?

The women's movement clearly opened up doors for women and they could now pursue careers only their mothers dreamed of. But was it intended that women would opt out of marriage and have families without fathers?

Researches at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine have just completed a new study to demonstrate that women and men respond to psychological stress differently and in different parts of the brain.

A new set of guidelines was released today to help prevent the #1 cause of death among women: heart disease. The most significant addition to this list is that of aspirin for most women. These guidelines, along with regular medical care, can help ward of heart disease.

According to the latest research, men are more okay with sweaty palms than women.

Differences between men's and women's lacrosse rules and style of play. Women are injured almost as much as men in lacrosse, but are required to wear less protective equipment. Women's lacrosse sometimes hides a seething inner violence.

There was more than one space race taking place in the 1960s. Not only was the United States racing the Soviet Union, but women were racing men into space.