WHAT'S NEXT?: Achieving global gender parity will take many decades yet. Read on to understand the trends, challenges and efforts to advance parity at a faster pace.
[New] In 2026, we will see a sharp rise in women-founded, AI-native companies, and the real story will be the downstream effects: more women creating leverage and shaping markets.
AOL
[New] In 2026, companies that fail to materially advance women into real decision-making roles will risk measurable economic consequences.
AOL
[New] Vulnerable groups such as infants, children, and pregnant women face the greatest risks, especially from contaminants like nitrates, lead, PFAS, microplastics, and TCE.
Clearly Filtered
[New] The rise of anti-gender rights movements is jeopardising legal protections for women and girls around the world, threatening to undo decades of legal progress.
Equality Now
[New] The updated Health Resources and Services Administration guidance now advises that people receive a high-risk HPV test - which checks for the virus types most likely to cause cervical cancer - every five years for average-risk women ages 30 to 65 as the preferred screening approach.
ABC News
[New] Shifting resources from lower-risk women to higher-risk women is an efficient, effective approach to screening for and preventing breast cancer.
ScienceDaily
[New] Politically, much of the backlash that has followed the socially celebrated transgender tipping point of 2014 reached a peak in 2025 and is set to continue into 2026, starting with a number of detransition lawsuits that will hit the US legal circuit in the new year.
Gender Crossroads newsletter
[New] New York is providing unconditional cash support to 161 pregnant women who are homeless, at risk of losing housing, or facing domestic violence.
Reasons to be Cheerful
[New] New medicines listed on the PBS will make it cheaper for women to access oral contraception, and medicines for menopause, endometriosis, and breast cancer.
Sky News Australia
[New] Companies that hire young people, women in vulnerable situations, or people residing in southern Italy on permanent contracts will have their social security contributions reduced for up to 24 months.
Italianismo - Noticias sobre a Italia
[New] Remote work has unlocked economic opportunities for women, caregivers, and people with disabilities by removing physical and logistical constraints that previously excluded them from traditional workspaces.
Virtual Assistant Jobs for Latin Americans (Now hiring)
[New] The scale of the threat facing British women and girls has become painfully apparent in 2025 - a year in which the volume of undocumented men illegally entering the UK increased to record numbers, and the political class was finally forced to wake up to the grooming-gangs scandal.
Spiked
[New] Women face a far higher risk of harm from intimate partners than men.
AOL
[New] At Milan-Cortina 2026, the Winter Olympics will feature the highest proportion of female athletes in Winter games history at 47%.
Sportcal
[New] The IOC set a target Wednesday of early 2026 to detail a new policy on eligibility in female sports that could see transgender athletes excluded from the Olympic Games.
Toronto Star
[New] 2026 will fully embrace beauty for every gender, tone, and texture.
The Skin Center by CPS
The NHS in England approved this year a new daily pill, Linzagolix, with fewer side effects than other treatments, offering new hope to women who have been unable to find relief with existing options.
Understanding Animal Research
In the next five years, China will donate another $10 million to UN Women; earmark a quota of $100 million in China's Global Development and South-South Cooperation Fund for implementing development cooperation projects for women and girls in collaboration with international organizations.
Yahoo Finance
Universal screening is recommended for postmenopausal women younger than 65 years with one or more risk factors for osteoporosis.
AuntMinnie
Tens of millions of women have been denied the life-changing and long-term health benefits of hormone therapy because of medical dogma rooted in a distortion of risk.
Society for Women's Health Research
Women should incorporate vaginal care into their everyday routine by applying lubricant and vaginal moisturizers on a daily basis-analogous to how they might apply sunscreen or facial moisturizers to care for their skin.
Peter Attia
The United States' first-ever racially integrated baseball league for women will begin playing in the spring of 2026.
The Atlantic
Last updated: 08 January 2026
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