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  Curtsy, a clothing resale app and competitor to recently IPO’d Poshmark, announced today it has raised $11 million in Series A funding for its startup focused on the Gen Z market. The app, which evolved out of an earlier effort for renting dresses, now allows women to list their …

Obesity is rare in hunter-gatherer cultures. Nevertheless, dozens of handheld ‘Venus’ figurines — the oldest art sculptures of humans known and tend to be of women who have obesity or are pregnant — have been identified that date to Ice Age European hunter-gatherers from 38,000 to 14,000 years ago. In …

Social networking app for women, Peanut, is rolling out video chat Mobile social networking app for women, Peanut, is expanding into video chat to help better support its users amid the coronavirus outbreak. The company, which began its life with a focus on motherhood, has evolved over the years to …

Photo: Pond5 By now, you’ve probably figured out that men’s and women’s bodies don’t work quite the same way. Get your mind out of the gutter. We’re talking about the weight room, here. Men and women have huge differences in their body compositions, joint alignments and connective tissues, all of …

Muirfield golf club voted on Tuesday to admit women members, scrapping the all-male policy that led to the historic Scottish course being stripped of its eligibility to host Britain’s Open championship. The Royal St George’s club in Kent was recently awarded hosting rights for the 2020 Open after it too …

To celebrate International Women’s Day 2017, Google has pulled 13 of its past doodles honoring women. The collection highlights females through history who pushed the boundaries and contributed to the advancement of women — and men — in extraordinary ways. “Our slideshow Doodle features a little girl whose grandmother tells …

Women tend to react with stronger responses to immune challenges while pregnant with girls than with boys, a new study published in the journal Brain, Behavior and Immunity has found. The study by Mitchell et al shows baby’s sex is associated with pregnant women’s immune responses. A team of scientists …

Celmatix, a startup with a focus on personalized medicine for women, wants to take some of the mystery out of the science of baby-making with a new type of DNA-based fertility test called Fertilome. Fertilome looks at 49 variants in 32 genes that give you a likelihood or not for …

Science fiction lost one of the pioneers of the kick-ass woman when Carrie Fisher passed away on Tuesday. Sure there were plenty of tough women before Princess Leia was introduced to the world in 1977 in Star Wars, but no one did it better. She was feisty, headstrong, and even though …

Photo: tom_fw on Instagram  While Toronto Fashion Week (which was formerly known as Toronto World MasterCard Fashion Week) was unfortunately cancelled in July, it looks like a new fashion venture is set to hit the city. This past weekend at Toronto Men’s Fashion Week, the event’s executive team revealed plans to …