One hundred years since women won the right to vote. One hundred days until the election. One hundred women with one hundred stories.
The first pitch of the first live professional baseball game to be broadcast on ESPN this season came on May 5 via satellite from South Korea. It was an unconventional start to a never-before season that was put on pause in the United States due to the Covid-19 pandemic. At …
Some of history’s famous female feuds have turned ugly. From verbal lashings — Joan Crawford and Bette Davis sniped at each other for over 40 years. To assault — Tonya Harding had Nancy Kerrigan kneecapped. To the drastic — Queen Elizabeth I had her rival Mary Queen of Scots beheaded. …
It was a short paragraph in her sorority’s alumni booklet that shined a light on one of America’s leading mathematicians whose work, like that of so many accomplished Black women, was hidden away for decades. Its impact, however, is felt every time you ask Siri for directions, tag a photo …
A mother tenderly bathing her child. A mother holding her baby in her arms. A mother hugging her child. Although Mary Cassatt declared herself unsuited to marriage, her paintings of women and their domestic life are among her most enduring. As a leading figure in the Impressionist movement these works …
The Go Go’s made history as the first all-female band to have a debut album reach No. 1. Thirty-eight years later, they still make us wanna dance.
“Once upon a time there was an old woman who loved to knit. She lived with her Old Man in the middle of a woods in a curious one-room schoolhouse which was rather untidy, and full of wool.” If you enjoy knitting, then you’ve no doubt heard of Elizabeth Zimmermann, …
A sculptor, installation and video artist primarily producing works that address the experiences of Black women, Simone Leigh has received a multitude of honors. She now adds the first African-American woman to represent the United States at the prestigious Venice Biennale to that list. Leigh works primarily in ceramics, a …
Yo ho, yo ho, it was a pirate’s life for her. Mary Read spent much of her life dressed in male clothing, engaging in the traditional male activities of the time like soldiering, sailoring and eventually, pirating. It seems she was born to it. With her sailor husband was lost …
Wilma Mankiller was the first woman chief of the Cherokee Nation whose work helped to change a century of government policy.
Saturday Night Live has championed women comics, actors and writers since its debut on Oct. 11, 1975. We know the names — Jane Curtin, Gilda Radner, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Tina Fey and Amy Poehler, Leslie Jones, Aidy Bryant — and the first SNL performer to win an Emmy since 1993, Kate …