We celebrate the resilient and revolutionary women who've shaped our world. Discover the stories and legacies of female visionaries, artists, and leaders.
Discover eight women composers who have shaped the musical world and gave women in music a voice.
Tudor women, long denied career aspirations, ironically held the most power possible as midwives, with the fragile babes of the royal family in their hands.
Over the course of world history, a small number of female monarchs exercised power by assuming traditionally male titles such as “king.” Here are 6 female kings.
Born a princess with seemingly endless opportunities ahead of her, Alexandra of Hesse-Darmstadt unwittingly found herself on a path of destruction.
Olympias played a significant role in the years of conflict following the death of her son, Alexander the Great. History would not remember her kindly.
While Jane Austen’s romance often distracts us from her heroines’ realities, Henrik Ibsen stares financial oppression dead in the face and offers his heroines hope.
Linda Nochlin burst onto the feminist scene with this provocative question about women artists. Her answers would make her famous and change art history.
Anne Frank, a young Jewish girl, documented her life in hiding from Nazi persecution. After WWII, she became an international symbol of the Holocaust.