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Why are women more willing donors than men?

Why is there a gender imbalance when it comes to the donation of organs, blood and tissue, and what can be done about it?

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’No you’re not’ – a portrait of autistic women

In this sensitive series of portraits and interviews, photographer Rosie Barnes acknowledges the voices and experiences of autistic women.

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Witches

Many of the women persecuted as witches in the 16th-century “witch craze” were over 50 and exhibited signs of menopause. Helen Foster suggests that the stigma of the wicked witch still affects older women and how they deal with menopause.

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Invisibility

Why do menopausal women feel invisible? Because nobody talks about menopause or because society doesn't value older women?

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  • Two couples: the young women putting antlers on to the heads of the older men, indicating their cuckoldry. Engraving.
  • A marriage ceremony where the bride sits on a high chair with two older women on either side of her and the groom stands at the bottom of the platform. Engraving.
  • A communal house, the men sit drinking around a table while the women look after the children, weave hay and the older children cook. Engraving by C. Bouzonnet Stella after J. Stella.
  • A communal house, the men sit drinking around a table while the women look after the children, weave hay and the older children cook. Engraving by C. Bouzonnet Stella after J. Stella.
  • A communal house, the men sit drinking around a table while the women look after the children, weave hay and the older children cook. Engraving by C. Bouzonnet Stella after J. Stella.
  • A man and a woman embrace and drink wine in the corner of a room, as a girl attempts to rouse the boy who has fallen asleep against her knee watched by two older women standing over them. Mezzotint by N. Verkolje after himself.
  • Illustrated text representing a warning about the dangers of having multiple partners and contracting AIDS: top image shows a group of people/students listening to an older man/teacher holding a paper bearing the word 'AIDS' in Hindi; lower image shows one of the students with numerous different women. Colour lithograph, ca. 1995.
  • J. Brittain and Fred Powell posed in character as old women.
  • J. Brittain and Fred Powell posed in character as old women.
  • Old men and women activating and going through a rejuvenating machine. Engraving, 17--.
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