The First Woman in America to Receive an M.D. Was Admitted to Med School as a Joke
When the students at Geneva Medical College voted in jest to admit a woman, they unwittingly paved the way for Elizabeth Blackwell’s trailblazing career
On This Day in 1932, America Elected Its First Female Senator
This year, a record number of women are serving in Congress; Hattie Wyatt Caraway was the first ever in the Senate
Aircraft Hunters Think They’ve Found a Scrap of Amelia Earhart’s Plane
This isn’t the first time a seemingly game-changing piece of evidence about Earhart’s disappearance has arisen, however
General Lori Robinson Takes Charge of the Pacific as Air Force’s First Female Major Command Leader
Robinson joins the short list of female four-star generals
American Law Has Never Been Comfortable With Birth Control
Americans might support and use birth control, but the Hobby Lobby decision did not
Women Fought in the Civil War Disguised As Men (And So Do Today’s Re-enactors)
Some women dressed up as their husbands, or even fought alongside them
‘The Hatpin Peril’ Terrorized Men Who Couldn’t Handle the 20th-Century Woman
To protect themselves from unwanted advances, city women wielded some sharp accessories
Janet Yellen Is Holding Her First Meeting as Chairwoman of the Federal Reserve
Less than 10 percent of central bank governors around the world are women
To Get Rid of Body Hair, Renaissance Women Made Lotions of Arsenic, Cat Dung And Vinegar
“When the skin feels hot, wash quickly with hot water so the flesh doesn’t come off”
Paris Is Adding Two More Women to the Pantheon (New Total: Three)
Since its construction, the mausoleum has been filled with 73 bodies. Only one of them is a woman.
This 700-Year-Old Purse From Iraq Is Remarkably Intact
Handbags have been popular for millennia, but usually we don’t find them all in one piece.
A Strange Object Found at New York’s City Hall Was a 200-Year-Old Feminine Hygiene Product
Archaeologists were initially mystified
The Madame Tussaud of the American Colonies Was a Founding Fathers Stalker
Patience Wright remained independence-minded in her correspondence with Ben Franklin and Thomas Jefferson
Soviet Russia Had a Better Record of Training Women in STEM Than America Does Today
Perhaps it’s time for the United States to take a page from the Soviet book just this one time
The Women Who Mapped the Universe and Still Couldn’t Get Any Respect
At the beginning of the 20th century, a group of women known as the Harvard Observatory computers helped revolutionize the science of astronomy
The Football Star and the Wrath of his Would-Be Bride
What could a wounded woman do? For one thing, she could sue
How American Rich Kids Bought Their Way Into the British Elite
The nouveau riche of the Gilded Age had buckets of money but little social standing—until they started marrying their daughters to British nobles
Men and Women Think on Family Matters Equally, But Women Get More Stressed
A study suggests that stereotypical gender roles transform thoughts of home into burdens for women, while men react differently
How Friedrich Engels’ Radical Lover Helped Him Father Socialism
Mary Burns exposed the capitalist’s son to the plight of the working people of Manchester
The Curious Case of Nashville’s Frail Sisterhood
Finding prostitutes in the Union-occupied city was no problem, but expelling them was
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