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Three young Toronto women who describe themselves as feminist activists and "sex trade workers" on Tuesday launched a legal challenge of Canada's prostitution laws.

Four days after receiving a nine-month jail sentence for touching the breasts of six women patients, a San Jose dentist was arraigned Monday on a grand jury indictment of a more serious charge of lewd and lascivious acts on a 14-year-old girl.

Census shows women who sideline careers to raise children make up a very small population.

What makes a woman want to have sex? Is it physical attraction? Love? Loneliness? Jealousy? Boredom?

First lady Michelle Obama says women should do what makes them happy, a lesson she says she learned after realizing her two children, ...

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) -- A judge in Malaysia has upheld a court verdict to cane a Muslim woman for drinking beer, news reports said Monday, re-igniting a controversy over Islamic justice in this moderate Muslim-majority country....

A woman has demanded a divorce from her husband who repeatedly defecated in the family cooking pots.

The Great Recession is pushing many highly educated women who had left work to stay at home with their children to dive back into the labor pool.

An inside source tells FOX411 that Gwyneth Paltrow has secret plans to shift her public image and become the next Martha Stewart. She wants to create her own lifestyle brands for women and families and cut back to doing one movie per year. Husband and Coldplay lead singer Chris Martin has even dubbed Gwyneth's appointments to plan her takeover of the lifestyle sector her "Martha Stewart meetings"!

Out of 83 hopefuls, one woman is crowned Miss Universe 2009 in the Bahamas.