Women's Rights
This Museum Tour Is the Perfect Guide to Celebrating Women’s History in Style
From the National Portrait Gallery to the Air and Space Museum, here’s where to find the stories of wondrous women come March
How Tennessee Became the Final Battleground in the Fight for Suffrage
One hundred years later, the campaign for the women’s vote has many potent similarities to the politics of today
Photographs Documenting the Struggle for Women's Suffrage Are Reimagined in Full Color
Colorizer Tom Marshall's deft touch brings new life to 100-year-old photographs
Stories of Forgotten Suffragettes Come Alive in New Exhibition
The Museum of London's "Votes for Women” show marks 100 years since women were first granted the right to vote in Britain
See the Portrait Slashed by a Butcher's Cleaver During Height of Women's Suffrage Movement
In an act of protest, the London National Portrait Gallery work was damaged in 1914. It returns to mark 100 years of the Representation of the People Act
The YMCA First Opened Gyms to Train Stronger Christians
Physical fitness was a secondary goal for the movement
It Didn’t Take Very Long For Anesthesia to Change Childbirth
The unprecedented idea of a painless delivery changed women's lives
Three Things to Know About Radical Prohibitionist Carry A. Nation
Nation was convinced she was on a mission from God
The Ten Best History Books of 2017
From presidential biographies to a look at the long rise of fake news, these picks will surely interest history buffs
The Riveting Story of an American Icon
Rosie has a surprising history
For a Few Decades in the 18th Century, Women and African-Americans Could Vote in New Jersey
Then some politicians got angry
The Woman Who Challenged Darwin's Sexism
How a preacher with no scientific training ended up writing the first feminist critique of <em>Origins</em>
Central Park Has No Monuments Dedicated to Real Women. That's About to Change
The future site was dedicated during the state's centennial of women's suffrage; the State of New York also will build two statues of suffrage leaders
The Medical Practitioner Who Paved the Way for Women Doctors in America
Harriot Hunt refused to let her gender limit her ambitions—or those of the next generation of physicians
Why Saudi Arabia Giving a Robot Citizenship Is Firing People Up
Saudi Arabia’s newest citizen is a robot named Sophia and she already has more rights than human women who live in the country
How a Psychologist’s Work on Race Identity Helped Overturn School Segregation in 1950s America
Mamie Phipps Clark came up with the oft-cited "doll test" and provided expert testimony in Brown v. Board of Education
Three Things to Know About Pants-Wearing Mountaineer Annie Smith Peck
Peck wasn’t wealthy and her family, who did have money, didn’t approve of her globe-trotting, mountain-climbing, pants-wearing lifestyle
Jane Squire and the Longitude Wars
The sixteenth-century debate over how to determine longitude had a lot of participants—and one woman
Why Coco Chanel Created the Little Black Dress
The style icon created a... well.... style icon in 1926
Saudi Women Win the Right to Drive
Next June, women in the ultra-patriarchal society will become the last in the world to receive driver's licenses
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