All you have to do is walk down the street to see an overwhelming number of ads telling women exactly how to look and act. The kinds of images that females are surrounded by attempt to control their ...

That seems to be the general message that women receive. If you're not being banned for wearing an item of swimwear which covers too much skin, then you're being criticised for showing too much skin.

Mae Jemison, “The first black woman in space.” The astronaut is also an engineer and physician who conducted experiments about motion sickness and weightlessness onboard the space shuttle in 1992.

When Brazilian graphic designer Carol Rossetti began posting colorful illustrations of women and their stories to Facebook, she had no idea how popular they would become. Thousands of shares ...

Learn about Violet Dandridge, Aime Motter Awl, Carolyn Bartlett Gast, and Marilyn Schotte: four women from the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History Department of Invertebrate Zoology who ...