PHILADELPHIA -- Don't rush to the drug store quite yet if you are a woman under 17, need emergency contraception and have no prescription.

"I don't expect to see it at neighborhood pharmacies instantly," said Susannah Baruch of the Reproductive ...

A new report on the senior population found a majority of elderly women, blacks and Latinos are precariously close to poverty, according to the nonpartisan Economic Policy Institute report released Thursday.

The report comes as lawmakers are ...

KABUL, Afghanistan -- A modest campaign sponsored by the U.S. government has begun tackling one of the most basic problems on the long list that women face here: being robbed of property that they have rightfully inherited.

A 30-day pilot program...

WASHINGTON -- States with lower minimum wages tend to have a greater gap in pay between men and women, according to a new analysis based on federal data.

Of the 10 states with the widest wage gaps between men and women, eight had their wage level...

MINNEAPOLIS -- The new rule had Brittney Griner's name on it before she was even in the league.

From the WNBA's offseason meeting came the new defensive three-second rule, designed to keep a player out of the paint unless she is guarding her ...

WASHINGTON -- Lawmakers from both parties rebuked the Pentagon on Tuesday for failing to curtail sexual assaults in the military, arguing that the inability of commanders to solve the problem may mean they need to be stripped of the power to ...