Women do not do as well as men in Oxbridge exams because of premenstrual syndrome, a think tank report has suggested.

"How did they expect me to do exams or even get through lessons." A national survey of 3,001 girls and women aged 12 to 18 commissioned by Women of Wellbeing found 97% experienced painful periods ...

I found my finals at Cambridge – in English literature, if you please – incredibly stressful. Studying hard wasn’t enough.

Was it my menstrual periods that held me back? This is what a paper published by the Higher Education Policy Institute last week suggests. Apparently, women get fewer firsts in exam-heavy Oxbridge ...