Ever since Viagra’s entrance into the pharmaceutical market in 1998, many women have been advocating for a female equivalent to the drug that has alleviated sexual dysfunction in millions of men. Although it’s been nearly three years since the Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceutical Company in Germany asked the Food and Drug Administration to approve a drug [...]

Cleopatra VII Philopator, the last Egyptian pharaoh, was born in late 69 BC. As a member of the Ptolemaic dynasty, she was a descendant of one of Alexander the Great’s generals that took control of Egypt.  Although most Ptolemaic rulers spoke Greek for this reason, Cleopatra learned Egyptian and thought of herself as a reincarnation [...]

Founded in 1904, FIFA, the Federation Internationale de Football Association, is based in Zurich and operates under the mission to improve football (soccer). The international association contains 208 member associations in its governing Congress and employs 310 people from 35 different countries around the world.  Operating much like a government, FIFA’s organization includes a Congress, [...]

Although the rate of teen pregnancies has decreased in the U.S. over the past decade, every day, over 2,000 teen girls become pregnant. That’s more than 750,000 pregnancies each year.  Studies estimate that by age 20, 30% of girls will experience pregnancy.
Considering the fact that at least 50% of pregnancies are unplanned, it’s a good [...]

You may or may not have heard of the Gardasil vaccine: a relatively new vaccine that prevents a few different strands of the human papillomavirus, or HPV. HPV is a serious virus that affects up to 80% of males and females in their lifetime.  And while the virus sometimes shows no symptoms and clears on [...]

Despite women’s increasing numbers in the labor market and advances in women’s rights over the last several decades, women are still discriminated in the workplace. This year’s U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics report that women who work 41-44 hours per week earn less than 85% of what men working the same hours earn. As women work longer hours, their percentage of men’s earnings decrease: women working over 60 hours per week earn 78% of men who work the same hours.

Women’s self-defense skills is an important skill. Whether you are walking from to your car in a dark parking lot, using public transport, or trying to get help when your car breaks down on a country road, knowing how to protect and defend yourself in a dangerous situation can be critical to your physical and emotional health. Preventing these situations from occurring, however, is much more important.