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Image source, Getty Images Canada Women national team head coach Kevin Rouet has joined Alex Austerberry's coaching setup at Saracens Women. Rouet led the Maple Leafs to the Rugby World Cup final in September, where they were beaten 33-13 by England at Twickenham. The Frenchman, 39, joins director of rugby Austerberry's team as attack coach and will carry outside his duties alongside his role with Canada.

Recently, no one has done star power like USC coach Lindsay Gottlieb. Landing Hall gives the Trojans a No. 1 recruit for the third time in four cycles. Last year's top signee, Jazzy Davidson, already leads the group in scoring, and JuJu Watkins returns next year from an ACL injury, setting up one of the most talented perimeter groups in the country. There will be an adjustment period as USC's stars learn to play together, but Gottlieb's pro-style positionless scheme should allow each player room to shine -- Hall included.

Earlier this season against Valparaiso, Crooks set the Cyclones' single-game scoring record with 43 points in just under 20 minutes. The low playing time was because of a stomach bug she was dealing with that night, but as she's wont to do, she kept it moving. "The night didn't start so well for me," she explained afterward. "I came out in the first quarter and had to ditch my pre-game meal." When she checked back into the game, she made up for lost time.

Arguably the most dynamic player in the college game, the 6-foot-4 Babcock averages 5.9 points per set and 5.1 kills per set for a team that is looking to return to the final four for the fifth straight time. The ACC Player of the Year had more than 40 kills in two matches this season from her opposite hitter position.

According to nonprofit Lean In and McKinsey & Company's latest Women in the Workplace report, for the first time since the report began a decade ago, significantly fewer women than men are interested in getting a promotion at work. Compared to 80% of men in entry-level career stages, 86% in mid-career, and 92% of senior executives, only 69% of entry-level women, 82% in their mid-career, and 84% of female senior executives reported a desire to advance in their careers. The data was taken from 124 companies with 3 million workers, as well as interviews with 62 human resources executives.

Women are hitting the top of the corporate ladder only to find something waiting for them: exhaustion. According to a report published Tuesday by McKinsey and LeanIn.org, a nonprofit founded by Sheryl Sandberg, burnout among senior-level women is the highest it has been in the past five years. Around 60% of these women said they have frequently felt burned out at work in the past few months, compared with 50% of senior-level men, per numbers from the "Women in the Workplace" 2025 study.

Deepfakes, threats, doxing (disclosure of personal information), hate speech spread through troll farms and bots, the use of viral hashtags, gender-biased fake news, and the non-consensual sharing of intimate content. The landscape of digital violence against women is increasingly broad and sinister. And although it is on the rise, most Latin American countries lack legal frameworks to protect them from this type of violence, which tends to be minimized despite its serious physical and psychological consequences.

The Invest in Women Taskforce has surpassed its fundraising ambitions in a major boost for female entrepreneurship, announcing that it has now convened £635 million in commitments, more than double its original £250 million target set at launch in 2024. The milestone includes confirmation that Nationwide and the British Business Bank will join Barclays and M&G as anchor partners in the targeted £130 million first close of the groundbreaking Women backing Women Fund of Funds, subject to final terms and approvals.

Picture a 12-year-old girl who looked 18, towering over classmates, grappling with a changing body that seemed to have a mind of its own. That girl was me. I was strong, athletic and competitive at a time when female strength was often seen as unfeminine. I remember the sideways glances, the whispers, the constant feeling of not fitting in - not with the girls, not with the boys, not even in my own skin.

Large US companies have made progress albeit slowly over the past decade when it comes to increasing the number of women in management and leadership roles on every rung of the corporate ladder. But reported changes in company priorities this year coupled with employees' reported experiences suggest those modest but steady gains may be at risk. That's one takeaway from the latest annual report on the state of women at work from consulting firm McKinsey & Company and Lean In, a women-at-work advocacy group.

The his­to­ry of sci­ence, like most every his­to­ry we learn, comes to us as a pro­ces­sion of great, almost exclu­sive­ly white, men, unbro­ken but for the occa­sion­al token woman-well-deserv­ing of her hon­ors but seem­ing­ly anom­alous nonethe­less. "If you believe the his­to­ry books," notes the Time­line series The Matil­da Effect, "sci­ence is a guy thing. Dis­cov­er­ies are made by men, which spur fur­ther inno­va­tion by men, fol­lowed by acclaim and prizes for men. But too often, there is an unsung woman genius who deserves just as much cred­it" and who has been over­shad­owed by male col­leagues who grabbed the glo­ry.

It's still by my bed. Every day. I wake up and the medal's next to my bed. And it's, like, as if! But Kildunne is not resting on her laurels. She says the medal is also a reminder of what's left to achieve for her, and for women's rugby in general. Your heart's telling you that you've done it, but I need to refocus. So it's about how can we win the prem, how can we win another Six Nations, more World Cups?

Bayern Munich is back in Frauen-Bundesliga action following an international break that saw Germany fall 3-0 on aggregate over two legs to Spain in the Women's Nations League Final. FC Bayern have run rampant in the league this season and sit in first place with cushion, although their opponents, Eintracht Frankfurt, are putting in one of the stronger campaigns among the rest of the field and currently sit in fifth, having only played 10 matches to Bayern's 11.

As in so many other areas, the spotlight is on them. A very recent example: in Spain, we know Rocio Lopez well. Known on social media as RoRo, last year she sparked controversy by turning her recipe videos into a veritable ode to class exhibitionism, with a pretense of pleasing her partner, Pablo, that bordered on subservience.

The Conversation published an excellent research-based article by two professors at Queen Mary University of London, who documented why mansplaining is a genuine phenomenon and why Reeves was right to use the term. As Louise Ashley and Elena Doldor state: Men and women can be both perpetrators and targets of mansplaining. However, the term has particular force because it reflects deeper cultural patterns in which authority is still coded as male and, more specifically, white and middle or upper class.

Ten games, two wins, two draws and six defeats. Twelve goals scored, 23 conceded. Eight debutants, two head coaches and one Nations League A relegation. It has been quite the 12 months since Scotland froze in Finland at the chance to reach Euro 2025 exactly one year ago on 3 December 2024. That devastating defeat and miserable missed opportunity always meant this year was likely to be one of rebuilding and reenergising.

The USC women's basketball team earned a commanding 79-33 win over Saint Mary's at Galen Center on Tuesday night. A small, but enthusiastic crowd cheered for the defense any time the Trojans forced a turnover. USC (6-2) held the Gaels (5-4) to under 30% shooting in the paint and 15% from the three-point line. Sophomore Kennedy Smith added 15 points and five rebounds.

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The ACC had a tough first month of the 2025-26 women's college basketball season. Duke sits below .500. NC State lost to Rhode Island. Stanford just lost to FGCU. Michigan blitzed Notre Dame by 39 points. Virginia lost to UMBC. Virginia Tech got upset by James Madison. The ACC's list of disappointing results is much longer than a typical November for what is historically the best or second-best conference in the country.

Being at Mississippi State, we had some knock-down-drag-outs with them,

Ireland South MEP Kathleen Funchion has said she "did the right thing" in speaking publicly about her experience of coercive control by a former partner, because it had encouraged many women and their families in similar situations to seek help.

Feminisation in this sense describes the central role played by gender in the transformations of work over the past decades, from the decline of conventionally masculine forms of work in heavy industry to the rise of the service economy and the problematic idea that women's participation in paid labour is a measure of gender equality. This critical use of feminisation makes visible the ways that contemporary capitalism exploits our ideas about gender.

That's a wrap on the regular season. All 31 automatic bids have been decided. Next up is the Selection Show on Sunday at 6 p.m. ET on ESPN where the other 33 at-large teams along with the seeding will be revealed. Volleyball seeds the top-eight teams in each region and the top four serve as first- and second-round hosts.

There's no question that women's basketball is growing nicely, a development that we should all cheer: this year's WNBA season was the most watched ever. But it is testing credulity to suggest that the sport is growing at anything like the same speed as AI, which since 2022 has gone from the technological margins to the very center of the US economy: by some reports, AI spending accounted for half of the growth in US GDP in the first half of this year.

Germany were made to rue their missed chances as they drew 0-0 with Spain in the first leg of their Nations League final. The reigning world champions were second best at Fritz-Walter-Stadion, struggling to cope with the speed of Germany's attacks, but a brilliant performance from goalkeeper Cata Coll means Spain can win the competition with a victory in their home leg next week.

Littlejohn was sent off in Crystal Palace's League Cup win over Leicester City on Sunday after an altercation with Hannah Cain. The 35-year-old appeared to grab Cain by the neck and the players fell to the ground in a second-half flashpoint. The Football Association has said it's standard three-match ban for violent conduct was "clearly insufficient" and it can seek an extended punishment if a case is "truly exceptional".

It's definitely been a lovely and unexpected season for me. I think since I was a teenager I have been so focused on boxing I had very little room for relationships and, honestly, even the thought of a relationship was out of the way for me. It's so lovely that love snuck up on the later stages of my career. Myself and my husband Sean, we have a lovely quiet life in Connecticut. We're very happy, thank God.

Menopause often coincides with a critical phase in a woman's career, when experience, insight, and leadership potential are at their highest. But symptoms like brain fog, fatigue, hot flashes, and mood swings can disrupt work and energy levels. The issue isn't the symptoms, it's the silence surrounding them. Women are expected to "power through." Some do, but for many it turns into what is known as the midcareer cliff.

Up to a million women worldwide are facing sexual violence and forced labour in prisons, where they are overlooked and forgotten, in what is being called a growing global crisis. The number of incarcerated women is rising much faster than men and is expected to surpass one million on current trends. While on average women account for between 2% and 9% of national prison populations, since 2000 the number imprisoned has grown by 57%, compared with a 22% increase in the men's prison population.