Studies show many western women are drinking too much. In some cases, they now drink as much as men. But is this also the case in the Pacific?

Bringing a baby into the world is meant to be a joyous occasion but imagine going through this during a natural disaster. With the impacts of climate change, more pregnant women and newborns will be affected.

When women haven't been able to finish school, the impacts of illiteracy are enormous and affects the entire family's health and wellbeing. But a growing number are taking adult classes and their transformation is mindblowing.

Storytelling is woven deep into the Pacific cultural fabric, passed down from one generation to another for thousands of years. But it's facing a very modern threat.

Hilda Wayne speaks to a woman who served time behind bars in Fiji and finds out from women offering on-the-ground support what the path to rehabilitation involves.

Type 2 diabetes is one of the biggest health issues facing people in the Pacific, and the World Health Organisation suggests women may be the key to stopping it. But does this place yet another burden on them?

Throughout the Pacific, sex work is illegal and it's seen as a great sin, but that hasn't stopped many women taking up the oldest profession - and for very different reasons.

Following scenes of corruption, vote stealing and massacres, one woman is determined to see change in PNG politics

Hilda Wayne talks to Pacific Island women about the changing pressures of caring for the elderly .

Some Pacific men are using social media platforms to punch down on Pacific women