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At an HHS press conference, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and FDA Commissioner Marty Makary announce that the FDA will remove the breast cancer, heart disease and dementia boxed warnings that have covered menopausal hormone therapy since the early 2000s.

On 25 November 2025 Italy's Chamber of Deputies unanimously gave final approval to a law making femicide a crime of its own, article 577-bis of the Criminal Code, punished with life imprisonment.

Texas's Woman and Child Protection Act takes effect, letting private citizens sue anyone who makes, mails or provides abortion pills into Texas for at least $100,000 per violation, while barring suits against the woman.

The FDA approves new labels for six menopausal hormone therapy products, one from each class, that drop the cardiovascular, breast cancer and dementia statements from the boxed warning; 29 companies have filed changes.

At CSW70 in New York on 9 March 2026, the Commission on the Status of Women adopted its Agreed Conclusions on access to justice for women and girls by recorded vote, 37 to 1 with 6 abstentions, after the United States broke the usual consensus.

The WNBA Board of Governors unanimously ratified the new collective bargaining agreement a day after the players, locking in a $7 million salary cap, $1.4 million max salaries and revenue sharing from the 2026 season to 2032.

Dow appointed chief operating officer Karen S. Carter, a 30-year company veteran, to succeed Jim Fitterling as chief executive on 1 July 2026, which Fortune says makes her the first Black woman to lead a major US chemical company.

The Crime and Policing Act 2026 received Royal Assent on 29 April 2026, and its section 241 took effect at once: no woman commits an offence under abortion law by acting in relation to her own pregnancy.

A Fifth Circuit panel granted Louisiana a stay of the FDA's 2023 mifepristone rules, ending telehealth prescribing and mail or pharmacy dispensing of the abortion pill nationwide until the Supreme Court stepped in.

Canada's first WNBA team lost its debut 68-65 to the Washington Mystics before a sold-out 8,210 at Toronto's Coca-Cola Coliseum.

The revived Portland Fire lost their first game 98-83 to the Chicago Sky, but the sold-out 19,335 was the largest crowd ever for a WNBA expansion team's home opener.

At a maternal healthcare event in the Oval Office, Trump announces a proposed rule letting employers offer fertility benefits outside their health plans, a day after HHS launched moms.gov for expecting and new mothers.

The Supreme Court stayed the Fifth Circuit's order in Louisiana v. FDA, so mifepristone can again be prescribed by telehealth and sent by mail while the case goes on; Justices Thomas and Alito dissented.

Fortune counts 55 women leading companies on the 2026 Fortune 500, 11% of the list and the highest share in its 72-year history, despite the exits of Oracle's Safra Catz, Fannie Mae's Priscilla Almodovar and Hershey's Michele Buck.

The 7 June 2026 deadline to write the Pay Transparency Directive into national law passed with only Italy, Slovakia and Malta (and, by some counts, Lithuania) done; the Netherlands, Sweden, Czechia and Denmark said they would apply it from 1 January 2027.

From 30 June 2026 large listed companies across the EU are expected to have at least 40% of non-executive board seats, or 33% of all board seats, held by the underrepresented sex, the target date set in the Women on Boards Directive.

A Fifth Circuit panel of Judges Richman, Higginson and Douglas heard Louisiana's bid to end telehealth prescribing of mifepristone and pressed the state hard on whether it has standing to sue.

Breanna Stewart's 22 points led the United States back from 14 down to beat France 97-79 in Berlin, a fifth consecutive FIBA Women's World Cup title and the country's 12th.

Atlanta leads the best-of-seven 2026 WNBA Finals 2–1 after a 97–71 Game 3 win over Golden State on October 21. Game 4 is scheduled October 24 in Atlanta; the series began October 17 at Chase Center.

Virginians decide whether to add a fundamental right to reproductive freedom, covering abortion, contraception, miscarriage and fertility care, to the state constitution's Bill of Rights.

Nevadans vote a second time on Question 6; if it passes again, a right to abortion until fetal viability joins the state constitution.

Missouri voters decide whether to repeal the abortion-rights amendment they passed in 2024 and allow abortion only in emergencies, for fetal anomalies, or for rape and incest before 12 weeks.

Idaho voters decide on Proposition 1, a citizen initiative that would replace one of the strictest abortion bans in the country with a right to abortion until fetal viability.

The season-ending championship for the top eight singles players and doubles teams moves from Riyadh to the Indian Wells Tennis Garden in California for 8-15 November, after the WTA ended its Saudi hosting deal a year early.

The NWSL's title game returns to Washington's Audi Field, home of the Spirit, on Saturday 21 November in primetime on CBS, the climax of a championship week of awards, a skills challenge and a fan fest.

The FDA is due to decide by 30 November 2026 whether to approve Roche's giredestrant, an oral SERD that cut the risk of recurrence or death by 30% versus standard hormone therapy in early ER-positive breast cancer.

The 71st session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women runs from 8 to 19 March 2027 in New York, with the priority theme of speeding up gender equality under the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

Employers in the EU with 150 or more workers must file their first gender pay gap reports, covering 2026, by 7 June 2027 under the Pay Transparency Directive; those with 250 or more workers must then report every year.

Member states must write Directive (EU) 2024/1385, the EU's first law on violence against women, into national law by 14 June 2027, including new crimes of female genital mutilation, forced marriage, cyber stalking and sharing intimate images without consent.