Women

From “pie for a doubting husband” to “spaghetti a la suffragette,” these recipes came with a side of activism.

The women-only motorcycle club offers skills learning, solidarity, and support that echoes pre-colonial networks.

Newly fashionable in the 1960s, wigs brought millions of dollars into the war-ravaged country.

Thirty-three-year-old Harpreet Chandi recently became the first woman of color to make the difficult solo trek to the South Pole.

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Beer, sake, and a certain flowery wine had their start as women's work.

In the late 19th century, "The Musical Messenger" had a message to send.

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Rosa Slade Gragg wouldn’t let a racist restrictive covenant stand in the way of the Detroit Association of Colored Women’s Clubs.

The Roosevelt Island artwork pays homage to her reporting, especially her inside look at a city asylum.

The record-setting 19th-century adventure was the result of a bet.

As queens or captains, women deftly operated ships across the Red Sea and Mediterranean 2,000 years ago.

As a Black woman, the daring circus performer also confronted the racial politics of the times.

Marie Grissot and Aimée Potens are just two of the women finally being written back into the history of childbirth.

The things Krafft and her husband learned getting up close to eruptions advanced volcanology and saved lives.

Grandma was just making a sweater. Or was she?