Kickass Women

The Dennison sisters amassed a small fortune with their morbid “working models.”

As an undercover investigator, Rose Mackenberg unmasked hundreds of America’s fake psychics.

An Aboriginal woman from northwest Tasmania, Tarenorerer became one of the war's most feared soldiers.

The daughter, sister, and aunt of emperors, Gulbadan Begum wrote of a Mughal Empire few witnessed.

From dodging bullets in the Black Sea to hiding from police in Tibet, Aina Cederblom lived life on her terms.

From a first-century poet to a Roman consul’s wife.

From bow-wielding Amazons to the trash-talking, 18th-century “Mother of Boxing.”

Even when those mummies still have skin, hair, and clothing.

It all started with a photo of Einstein.

Explore the mysteries of Mexico's Indigenous healers and Denmark's gruesome witch burnings with Condé Nast Traveler's Women Who Travel Podcast.

The women of Umoja no longer need a man to make their mporo marriage necklaces.

Botanists Elzada Clover and Lois Jotter braved rapids and steep cliffs to catalog numerous plant species.

The world’s first two-time Nobel Laureate was a nerd’s nerd who broke the law for knowledge.

The “Huk Amazons” were military commanders, leaders, soldiers, spies, and more.