In New York’s Lower East Side at the end of the 19th century, ten-person families crowded…
Kategoria: Forgotten Women
Annie Easley: Forgotten NASA Pioneer
At a time when racial segregation shut the doors to most professions for Black American women,…
Eileen Nearne: Britain’s Unknown WWII Agent
When social workers entered the flat of a solitary eighty-nine-year-old woman in the English resort town…
Ángela Ruiz Robles: Pioneer of the Modern E-Reader
When we reach for an e-reader today, we rarely think about its origins. Yet, the concept…
How Henrietta Lacks Changed Modern Medicine
When, in January 1951, a thirty-year-old woman from Baltimore came to the hospital with a concerning…
Nawal El Saadawi: Egypt’s Unyielding Feminist Icon
When, in 2011, an eighty-year-old woman appeared among protesters in Cairo’s Tahrir Square, no one was…
Pauline Newman: Labor Heroine Who Challenged America
When an eleven-year-old girl from Kaunas stood at a sewing machine in a New York factory,…
Unveiling Elizabeth Hanson: CIA’s Unsung Hero
At CIA headquarters in Langley, employees grew accustomed to the sight of a young woman in…
Polly Cooper: The Oneida Woman Who Saved Valley Forge
The Continental Army was slowly dying during the winter of 1777-1778. Soldiers ate tree bark, and…
Sophia Smith: Women’s University Pioneer
In a small Massachusetts town, a deaf, unmarried woman in her sixties faced a dilemma most…