WHAT'S NEXT?: Achieving global gender parity will take many decades yet. Read on to understand the trends, challenges and efforts to advance parity at a faster pace.
[New] Personalized symptom management: With over one billion women expected to experience menopause by 2030, AI-driven platforms are providing individualized treatment recommendations based on symptom patterns.
ZIRO Healthcare Solutions
[New] Beyond generational differences, 2026 will demand greater attention to specific life-stage needs, particularly for working parents and women navigating menopause.
HR Executive
[New] A draft update to NICE's guideline on suspected cancer proposes new thresholds for the CA125 blood test that reflect how ovarian cancer risk changes as women get older.
www.pathologyinpractice.com
[New] More women with ovarian cancer could be diagnosed earlier under proposed new NICE guidance that replaces a one-size-fits-all blood test threshold with personalised, age-based criteria.
www.pathologyinpractice.com
[New] The inclusion of more women in the screening program is expected to save lives and improve the quality of care available to women in Saskatchewan.
ACMA Association Blog
[New] The American Cancer Society and other organizations recommend women with a high lifetime risk of breast cancer have both an annual mammogram and breast MRI, scheduled six months apart.
NPR
[New] In 2026, pharma companies will face pressure to commit to deep, multi-year collaborations that deliver sex-specific data, new endpoints for better outcomes for women.
Pharmaphorum
[New] By 2026, the intersection of gender-driven tech leadership and AI workplace integration is not just a social imperative but a strategic investment opportunity.
Ainvest
[New] The U.S. travel and tourism industry continues to create significant job opportunities, particularly for women and young adults.
Travel And Tour World
[New] Studies have provided evidence that starting HRT within ten years of the onset of menopause can have numerous benefits which, for most women, outweigh potential risks.
South Central Regional Medical Center
[New] A UK Gospel Coalition is set to launch in 2026, bringing together complementarian evangelicals who believe men should lead and women should not be priests.
Religion Media Centre
[New] In 2026, we will see a sharp rise in women-founded, AI-native companies, and the real story will be the downstream effects: more women creating leverage and shaping markets.
AOL
[New] In 2026, companies that fail to materially advance women into real decision-making roles will risk measurable economic consequences.
AOL
[New] Vulnerable groups such as infants, children, and pregnant women face the greatest risks, especially from contaminants like nitrates, lead, PFAS, microplastics, and TCE.
Clearly Filtered
[New] The rise of anti-gender rights movements is jeopardising legal protections for women and girls around the world, threatening to undo decades of legal progress.
Equality Now
[New] The updated Health Resources and Services Administration guidance now advises that people receive a high-risk HPV test - which checks for the virus types most likely to cause cervical cancer - every five years for average-risk women ages 30 to 65 as the preferred screening approach.
ABC News
[New] Shifting resources from lower-risk women to higher-risk women is an efficient, effective approach to screening for and preventing breast cancer.
ScienceDaily
[New] Politically, much of the backlash that has followed the socially celebrated transgender tipping point of 2014 reached a peak in 2025 and is set to continue into 2026, starting with a number of detransition lawsuits that will hit the US legal circuit in the new year.
Gender Crossroads newsletter
[New] New York is providing unconditional cash support to 161 pregnant women who are homeless, at risk of losing housing, or facing domestic violence.
Reasons to be Cheerful
[New] New medicines listed on the PBS will make it cheaper for women to access oral contraception, and medicines for menopause, endometriosis, and breast cancer.
Sky News Australia
Last updated: 15 January 2026
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