Women

For more than a century, their stories were ignored—until now.

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.

A new book features 100 striking photographs of lone women who broke barriers.

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

The only documented all-female army in history inspired the Dora Milaje.

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

Singer Bessie Jones is the reason so many American children know the folk songs of African and Gullah cultures.

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

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

Dorothy wore the disputed blue-and-white frock when she faced down the Wicked Witch.

Shared books, homemade concoctions, and a whisper network thwarted Gilded Age efforts to limit women’s access to health care.

A restaurant in Amman preserves the cooking traditions of a diaspora.

How the country's Indigenous communities are keeping the memory of activist Dolores Cacuango alive.