Gender
Fatima Ezzahra El Mansouri becomes Morocco's first woman prime minister
BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM On September 29, King Mohammed VI appointed Fatima Ezzahra El Mansouri as Morocco's prime minister, making the 50-year-old urban planner and longtime mayor of Marrakesh the first woman to hold the role in the kingdom's history. She is also the third woman to Read More...
How a simple urine test could spare most women from invasive womb cancer procedures
BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM Researchers at the University of Manchester developed a non-invasive womb cancer test that correctly identified most cancers and returned a negative result for 93 percent of women who did not have the disease. The test uses urine and vaginal fluid samples, Read More...
New heart attack guidelines correct decades of under-diagnosis in women
BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM The world's four leading cardiovascular health organizations just agreed on a universal heart attack definition for the first time. The announcement came at the European Society of Cardiology congress in Munich and includes two changes that matter especially Read More...
Beard dandruff remedies dermatologists swear by
BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM If you've put real time into growing and grooming your beard, discovering a film of flakes underneath it can feel so unfair. All that trimming, all those oils, and somehow your skin is staging a revolt. Here's the thing though: beard dandruff usually isn't a Read More...
What watching soccer does to your body, according to science
BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM Forty-eight teams. Sixty-four matches. A final played yesterday at MetLife Stadium in New Jersey. And a victory for Spain, the country taking all the glory home. The 2026 World Cup was the most expansive in the tournament’s history, and for US, Canadian, Read More...
Illinois found a smarter way to close the menopause care gap
BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM Illinois Lt. Gov. Juliana Stratton set up a series of financial wellness conversations with women around the state. She expected to hear about rent, wages, and the cost of groceries. What she kept hearing about was menopause: what it was doing to their work, Read More...
The first gallery built exclusively to represent women artists
BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM The story of women in art history is mostly a story of not getting seen. Not because women weren’t making art —they were—but because the structures that decided which art got shown, bought, and remembered were built by and for men. MAG The Women Read More...
5 grooming habits every man should build into his routine
BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM Men’s grooming has always occupied a strange middle ground. Too much and you’re vain. Too little and people notice. For most men, the default settled around soap, a razor, and deodorant, and that was that. Dermatologists have been making the case for Read More...
10 best anti-aging foods for skin health and longevity
BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM You know the skincare aisle. You’ve stood there long enough to know that the options are overwhelming and the prices are humbling: serums, creams, collagen-boosting masks, each one promising the same thing in a slightly different bottle. A good topical Read More...
Period tax scrapped in Pakistan: what the ruling means for women
BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM Two lawyers filed a court case. Thousands signed a petition. Pakistan just agreed to scrap its sales tax on period products. Finance Minister Muhammad Aurangzeb announced the move this month, calling sanitary products “daily necessities that are Read More...