Category: Women Doing Amazing Things
England wheelchair rugby coach appointed MBE
Christian Fuller BBC News, South East Getty Images Head coach Tom Coyd, helped guide England to win the Wheelchair Rugby League World Cup One of…
Bedford hockey player, 75, gets ‘bug’ again after 40-year gap
Alex Pope BBC News, Bedfordshire Bedford Hockey Club Steph Daniels progressed from walking hockey back to playing the full game A woman who started playing…
The tiny Egyptian village few know
Omnia Farrag Features correspondent Ahmed Emad Jasmine blossoms are picked carefully, one by one, to keep their oils (Credit: Ahmed Emad) Jasmine, an essential ingredient…
How Carmen went from tragic heroine to feminist icon
Sophia Smith Galer Features correspondent Getty New productions of Bizet’s famous opera are rewriting the femme fatale’s tragic ending, writes Sophia Smith Galer. “If your…
Why aren’t there better treatments for cystitis?
Christine Ro Features correspondent Alamy A urine sample being checked with a test strip (Credit: Alamy) Women are routinely dismissed when they report symptoms of…
What we can learn from conspiracy theories
EPA From political upheavals to anxieties about sex, technology and women, it turns out conspiracy theories can tell us a lot about what’s going on…
The New Yorker who saved 90,000 infants
Leila McNeill Features correspondent At the turn of the last century, many remained sceptical of both germ theory and preventative medicine. One public health official…
How game theory can help to give your love life a boost
Manu Dal Borgo Features correspondent Getty Images/ Alamy/ Javier Hirschfeld It is possible to look at human relationships a little like they are a game…
The alphabets at risk of extinction
Andrea Valentino Features correspondent Maung Nyeu (Credit: Maung Nyeu) It isn’t just languages that are endangered: dozens of alphabets around the world are at risk.…
The female scientist who changed human fertility forever
Rachel E Gross Features correspondent Emmanuel Lafont She was the first person to successfully fertilise a human egg in vitro, changing reproductive medicine forever –…