Women Empowerment

Trickster, mentor, probable goddess—Slavic folklore's most famous villain is so much more than a witch.

A fresco at the historic refuge leads a musicologist to a composition not heard for centuries—and the determined young women who once performed it.

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

From Italy’s fortress-seizing countess to Angola’s battle-hardened Queen Njinga, these women didn’t back down from a fight.

For decades, these women have fought (and won) the right to stunt.

Her name was Enheduanna.

And the sociologist and actors trying to exorcise the gender stereotyping demon.

Join us for a daily celebration of the world’s most wondrous, unexpected, even strange places.

From musket-wielding empress Nur Jahan to writer Gulbadan Begum, meet the influential women of the early-modern Muslim empire.

Lauren Tischendorf is the first woman to complete the grueling 20-mile swim around Lord Howe Island in Australia.

Women who practiced kalaripayattu were a thing of the past—until Meenakshi Amma.

Join us for a daily celebration of the world’s most wondrous, unexpected, even strange places.