Want to make the most of beauty treatments? Go with the flow
We know it. It’s something that arises from deep within. We know it, somewhat unconsciously. But we tend to forget that hormones strongly impact our psychophysical health and when they are in balance the body works a lot better. Making peace with hormones is therefore...
Menstruation has not always been described consistently
A crippling disease. A disease that makes you impure and withers everything it touches. Most likely a cause of hysteria. And finally, a condition that calls for total rest. These are just some of the definitions used to describe menstruation over the centuries....
Time to debunk the menopause myth!
Everyone knows that during menopause the metabolism slows down, right? WRONG! In fact, a recent study published in the journal Science shows that the extra kilos accumulated after the age of 45 are not ascribable to a general slowdown in our metabolism, rather to...
Craftswomen, hunters, painters: that’s who cavewomen were (among other things)
Patriarchy has never represented natural history, nor prehistory: that’s what the book written by French palaeontologist Marylène Patou-Mathis, L'homme prehistorique est aussi une femme (Allary Editions), reveals. The author assures that thinking that women were...
The true story of women in the Divine Comedy
The seven hundredth anniversary of Dante's death has been celebrated throughout all of 2021. These celebrative events were a precious opportunity to remember possibly the most famous Italian author in the world, but also to rediscover the less known details of his...
Financial education can help bridge the gender gap
A women-only bank, for encouraging women’s economic independence, among other things. That’s the promise of a newly-founded Swiss bank, whose aim is to bring women closer to the world of finance, offering them investment assistance and financial education....
Does menopause set us free?
With just a few days to go before the release (on Sky on 9 December) of And just like that, the longed-for sequel to Sex & The City, let’s go back to an old line uttered by Cynthia Nixon joke to introduce a concept that has also been stressed by an renowned...
“Benedetta” by Paul Verhoeven is the film we’re longing to see this winter
He first shocked Cannes, then the New York Film Festival (where a group of outraged Catholics protested when the film was screened). Paul Verhoeven’s latest controversial film, Benedetta, might be released in Italian cinemas this December.Based on a true story, the...
Let a female bestseller captivate you
Autumn has come: chestnuts, sitting on the couch under a plaid, a hot cup of tea and good book to read. What could you possibly want more? Just like plants and trees, as the cold season approaches, we tend to switch to ‘rest’ mode, making the most of this period to...
Any difference between a woman’s brain and a man’s brain? Yes, women’s brains age more slowly!
It begins to age when you’re 25 and once you get to the age of 28/30, you are losing 100,000 neurons a day, on average. A figure that might seem a little less frightening if you consider that our brain has about 100 billion neurons… Anyway, the human brain does age...