Evidence-based reporting, analysis and perspectives on women’s health worldwide. Updated as stories develop.
A new report shows how much of the online “manosphere” runs as a business, earning money from young men’s loneliness and casting women as the problem. Consumer law, platform rules and programmes that involve men in care already offer ways to respond.
Lawmakers and campaigners in Manila want the Philippines to vaccinate boys against HPV as well as girls. Coverage among girls remains below 30%, but WHO’s one-dose schedule and new screening options give women more ways to protect themselves now.
For the first time, more than half of eligible fathers in Japan have taken childcare leave. Most still take weeks while mothers take a year, and Swedish evidence suggests the timing of fathers’ leave can help women recover after birth.
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