Although they were the minority, some women did manage to rise above the limitations imposed on them...
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Even in a male-dominated society, Viking women were far from powerless. By Emma GroeneveldHistorian Introduction Although women in the Viking Age...
A new study posits the woman was licking brushes covered with pigments of lapis lazuli, a rare...
Left off publications due to Nazi prejudice, this Jewish woman lost her rightful place in the scientific...
Catholic hospitals are expanding their reach and adopting policies that deny ever increasing numbers of women access...
The impact of political and social expectations on women in the Western world. By Dr. Max Barnish,...
A collective of activist women in Afghanistan shows the importance of womenās voices to combat extremism and...
A greater focus on female activities such as food processing and weaving can provide valuable information on...
In Victorian times, syphilis was believed to arise spontaneously in a prostituteās body, a result of āimmoralityā....
In 1896, a woman university student living in Zurich published in pamphlet form an extraordinary tirade against...
Rosina Bulwer Lytton, from A Blighted Life, 1880 / Wellcome Collection, Creative Commons The life of Rosina...
Virgin birth was not a new story in the ancient world. At the centre of the annual...
Nearly two centuries before Rep.-elect Ayanna Pressley became Massachusettsā first black woman elected to the U.S Congress...
Woking Convict Invalid Prison: a woman prisoner in solitary confinement / Wellcome Collection, Creative Commons Prison officers...
Here are five things to know about this groundbreaking, tragic figure. You probably havenāt heard of Ćmilie du...
Each day at Greyhound stations across the nation, families released from detention and traveling to sponsorsā homes...
Two 18th-century women, Sarah Ponsonby and Eleanor Butler, are famous for their romantic friendship, which was then...
Outside the Womanās Building, 1975. The Getty Research Institute, 2018.M.16. Photo: Maria Karras. Gift of Maria Karras....
Women suffragists picketing in front of the White house. The first picket line – College day in...
Investigating potential correlations between Rooseveltās and Posā ideas on womenās rights and intercultural understanding. By Dr. Babs...
JĆŗlia Lopes de Almeida was a founding member in the creation of the Brazilian Academy of Letters...
Discussing Ancient Greek women and their relationship to the visual arts solely on the evidence of the...
Rose Schneiderman, an unsung forerunner of the #MeToo movement, organized women to fight for laws to protect...
(Left-to-right)Ā Carrie Clyde Holly, Clara Cresshingham and Frances Klock They had to convince a majority of men in...
Young Women in the Garden, 1939, by Nguyį»
n Gia TrĆ / Heidelberg University, Creative Commons As early...
Egyptian hieroglyphics depict the pouring out of beer / Wikimedia Commons Women held many important and influential...
Early agrarian womenālike these murdered in what is now western France some 6500 years agoāmay have been...
14th-century theological compendium / University of California Berkeley Special Collections Examining depictions of penance and confession in...
Tracing the sad medieval history of the siren and trying to understand where it all went wrong....
Jan Van Eyck, The Arnolfini Portrait, 1434, tempera and oil on oak panel, 82.2 x 60 cm...