Noor Inayat Khan was the first female Muslim British wireless operator in France during WWII to prepare for D-Day.

Angelina Weld Grimké (1880–1958) was a pioneering African-American poet, playwright, and activist.

Bobbi Gibb and Katherine Switzer were the first women to run in the Boston Marathon in 1966 and 1967.

Dr. Mary E. Walker was a courageous surgeon serving during the American Civil War and being imprisoned by the Confederates.

First grader Ruby Bridges showed courage amid hatred. Could you do that?

In a time when some are trying to push women back to the 19th century, remembering Eleanor Roosevelt serves as a beacon of hope. We are...

Anna May Wong (1905–1961), born as Wong Liu Tsong in Los Angeles, was one of Hollywood’s first Asian-American film stars.

Naomi Wadler and Carter Anderson protest gun violence with walkout and silence.

Nellie Bly, the investigative journalist who traveled the World in only 72 days and spent ten days in an insane asylum.

Lillian Wald founded the Henry Street Settlement in 1893 on Manhattan's Lower East Side.

In the summer of 1962, angry about her disenfranchisement as a Black woman, Hamer became an SNCC organizer.

Fannie Lou Hamer | Civil Rights Advocate My grandmother, born in 1898, worked as a child sharecropper near Galveston, TX, hoeing...

Fannie Lou Hamer, a sharecropper and Civil Rights advocate in a white supremacist society.

Many consider Ada Lovelace (1815-1852) to be the first computer programmer. Imagine that! She was the first, even without “masculine energy.

Mary Ann Shadd Cary was the first Black woman publisher in North America and the second Black woman to attend law school.

The Silent Sentinels of the National Woman’s Party picketed Wilson’s White House for women’s suffrage for two and a half years between...

Patience Lovell Wright (1725-1786), “the Promethean Modeler,” was one of the first American sculptors.

Hanukkah and Christmas Day, two days of light and hope, are perfect for honoring Irena Sendler, a “She Who Dared” historical woman.

Assembled an Army of 230,000 against the Romans Celtic Queen Boudica, also known as Boadicea, was the queen of the Iceni tribe in ancient...