Nearly two centuries before Rep.-elect Ayanna Pressley became Massachusetts’ first black woman elected to the U.S Congress...
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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 haven’t heard of Émilie du...
Each day at Greyhound stations across the nation, families released from detention and traveling to sponsors’ homes...
Two 18th-century women, Sarah Ponsonby and Eleanor Butler, are famous for their romantic friendship, which was then...
Outside the Woman’s 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 Roosevelt’s and Pos’ ideas on women’s rights and intercultural understanding. By Dr. Babs...
Júlia 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) Carrie Clyde Holly, Clara Cresshingham and Frances Klock They had to convince a majority of men in...
Young Women in the Garden, 1939, by Nguyễn Gia Trí / Heidelberg University, Creative Commons As early...
Egyptian hieroglyphics depict the pouring out of beer / Wikimedia Commons Women held many important and influential...
Early agrarian women—like these murdered in what is now western France some 6500 years ago—may 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...
Artwork page for ‘The Cholmondeley Ladies’, Unknown artist, Britain, c.1600-10 / Tate Britain In the Middle Ages,...
Emmeline Pankhurst addressing a crowd in Trafalgar Square in 1908 / Public Domain History is messy. And...
Women suffragists marching on Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington D.C., March 3, 1913 Demanding the right to vote...
Wikimedia Commons Exploring how women’s lives changed during the Russian Revolution, tracing the history of female revolutionaries in...
Photo by Anton Bielousov (Own work: Slutwalk, via Wikimedia Commons Historical and structural inequalities that long flourished have...
EPB/35960/A: François Mauriceau, The accomplisht midwife, treating of the diseases of women with child, and in child-bed...
By Jessica Jacolbe / 06.14.2018 Today in Brooklyn Heights John A. Roebling, the architect of the Brooklyn...
By Dr. Robert Davis / 02.15.2018 Professor Emeritus of History The Ohio State University Beauty and self-care has always been...
By Brad Bowman / 05.17.2018 Sosland Family Graduate Fellow in the History of Science Harvard University In...
The head of the suffragist parade in Washington, 1913. (Wikimedia Commons) They fought for the right to vote,...
She’s the Schneiderman who championed women’s rights in the 20th century. By Dr. Jennifer Scanlon Associate Professor...
During the war, the poster on the left, painted by J. Howard Miller, was only on display...