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... that the Attorney General of Georgia argued that Robin Shahar's lesbian wedding meant that she didn't have "good sense"? (2025-03-22)
... that Bahraini author Fatema Al Harbi, the first non-government Bahraini to visit Israel, faced death threats upon her return? (2025-03-21)
... that Japanese singer Cindy was once said to have an "angel voice"? (2025-03-20)
... that Sardoine Mia (pictured) creates paintings whose surfaces look like concrete? (2025-03-18)
... that Lydie Pongault was appointed to the Congolese government to fill the roles of two other ministers? (2025-03-18)
... that Prem Bery hosted state visits at the Central Cottage Industries Emporium? (2025-03-17)
... that Ana María Iriarte (pictured) made her professional opera debut in 1945, retired from the stage in 1960, and created a foundation promoting zarzuela in 2006? (2025-03-17)
... that Palestinian singer Zeinab Shaath assumed a short film featuring her had been destroyed until a researcher discovered a copy in the archives of the Israel Defense Forces? (2025-03-15)
... that due to her experience of Italy's immigration policies, journalist Nadeesha Uyangoda has been outspoken on migrant rights? (2025-03-15)
... that cave art, indigenous dance and an ancient flute inspired the work of Libyan artist Shefa Salem? (2025-03-12)
... that Marion Wiesel translated 14 of her husband's books from French? (2025-03-11)
... that Paraguayan drag artist Usha Didi Gunatita dressed as Santa Claus and visited children in a cancer hospital? (2025-03-09)
... that Samba Yonga and Mulenga Kapwepwe founded the Women's History Museum of Zambia to counter a colonialist perspective on women's history? (2025-03-08)
... that Irish actors Maria McDermottroe and her daughter Gina Costigan each portrayed the love interest of real-life criminals in 2003's Veronica Guerin? (2025-03-08)
... that Isabel Coursier (pictured) was only 15 years old when she became the first North American to break the world record for women's ski jumping? (2025-03-08)
... that Czech Romani social worker and human rights activist Elena Gorolová worked as a metalworker in her youth? (2025-03-08)
... that the ending of the music video for Hoshimachi Suisei's "Bibbidiba" was called inspiring to struggling women? (2025-03-08)
... that Barbara Neumann invented one of the first nanomaterials to be produced on an industrial scale? (2025-03-08)
... that Naenano was once known as "the face that Japanese girls most want to have right now"? (2025-03-07)
... that Tina Leung dressed as her comic book alter ego when accepting an award for the House of Slay? (2025-03-04)

... that Reine Abbas chose the name Wixel Studios, a blend of "Weird Pixel", in recognition of being one of the only gaming studios in Lebanon? (2025-03-04)
... that 19th-century tightrope walker Madame Saqui performed well into her seventies? (2025-03-02)
... that Yuika was allowed by her parents to take a music-related course after playing one of her songs to them? (2025-03-01)
... that peasant Agnieszka Machówna repeatedly deceived Polish nobles into thinking that she was a noble? (2025-03-01)
... that the musical career of Louise Beach has ranged from nationally recognized compositions to a children's book about the viola? (2025-02-26)
... that Diana Vicezar (pictured) created recycled housing for street dogs, a recruitment platform for international students, and a podcast about Latin American students in Ireland? (2025-02-24)
... that Nourah al-Qahtani was sentenced to 45 years in prison based on alleged social media activity? (2025-02-23)
... that Qatari calligrapher Fatma Al Sharshani was commissioned by Paris Saint-Germain FC to design a skateboard and some Arabic lettering for their shirts? (2025-02-23)
... that San Antonio declared January 13 to be "Tabyana Ali Day" in honor of the actress and writer Tabyana Ali? (2025-02-22)
... that Nagi Nemoto made her VTuber debut on a classic television set? (2025-02-19)
... that Américo Ramos became Prime Minister of São Tomé and Príncipe after his predecessor, Ilza Amado Vaz, resigned following a tenure of three days? (2025-02-13)
... that opera singer Susan Botti performed an Olympic jingle for Kodak to pay for graduate school? (2025-02-12)
... that it is said that Antoinette Lubaki, Congo's first named woman artist, painted her watercolours by candlelight at night, as no stories were allowed to be told during daylight? (2025-02-12)
... that Scholastique Dianzinga edited a post-independence history of women in the Republic of the Congo that discussed why women's emancipation has been hindered? (2025-02-08)
... that Syrian vlogger Hayla Ghazal used online humour to explore the limitations placed on women in the Arab world? (2025-02-04)
... that Elisheva Biernoff paints recreations of found vintage snapshot photographs, some including details like lens flare and overexposure? (2025-02-03)
... that Ann McMillan recalled "playing" a tape recorder for Déserts, a piece by Edgard Varèse? (2025-01-31)
... that the Nicaraguan nun Dorotea Wilson joined a guerrilla group, renounced her vows, and became a women's rights activist and politician? (2025-01-27)
... that three women spent 80 hours chained together in a mine to protest its closure? (2025-01-26)
... that Liang Sishun published an anthology of Chinese poetry in 1908, when she was about fifteen years old? (2025-01-25)
... that Ana María Ochoa was born in Colombia, studied in British Columbia, and taught at Columbia? (2025-01-22)
... that Sher Machado created a League of Legends tournament exclusively for transgender people? (2025-01-20)
... that World War II nurse Ethel Lote practised yoga and tai chi until she was 95? (2025-01-20)
... that Jennifer Reid at first could not find a Canadian publisher for her book on Canadian identity? (2025-01-19)
... that Katerina Clark wrote "a brave and intelligent study of the Soviet novel"? (2025-01-18)
... that after discovering her child was transgender, Thamirys Nunes (pictured) created an organization dedicated to defending transgender youth? (2025-01-17)
... that Theresia Bauer was named science minister of the year four times? (2025-01-16)
... that the CEO of the London Stock Exchange Group described insider dealing as "the poster child of market abuse"? (2025-01-13)
... that in 1927 Berta Persson became the first woman bus driver in Sweden and was nicknamed "Buss-Berta"? (2025-01-11)
... that after becoming a born again Christian, soprano Jane Stuart Smith abandoned a successful opera career to pursue a life of service? (2025-01-09)
... that the director-screenwriter of Blossoms Under Somewhere joined Telegram groups that sell used lingerie to conduct field research? (2025-01-08)
... that Yvonne Francis-Gibson, before improving women's rights as a legislator in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, led a Women's Desk that was "unable to take a firm stand on behalf of women's issues"? (2025-01-06)
... that Bea Hines, the first African-American woman to become a reporter at the Miami Herald, was sent to report on a riot on her first day at work? (2025-01-06)
... that Sarah Pickstone based her John Moores Prize–winning painting on an illustration that accompanied the poem "Not Waving but Drowning"? (2025-01-05)
... that Mary Mellor argued that the COVID-19 pandemic increased the impact of the patriarchy on women, both at home and in the wider economy? (2025-01-04)
... that Marie-Thérèse Eyquem served in the government of Vichy France, and was later appointed a national secretary of the French Socialist Party? (2025-01-02)
... that Kathryn Maple won the Sunday Times Watercolour Competition twice in three years? (2025-01-02)
... that Flora Hommel, after being afraid of giving birth to her own child, went on to teach the Lamaze technique to more than 17,000 couples? (2025-01-02)
... that international adult figure skating champion Naz Arıcı learned to skate at the age of 29? (2024-12-28)
... that ballet dancer Nina Tikhonova taught dance for free to children who had been orphaned during World War II? (2024-12-27)
... that Christmas: A Biography states that, despite its Christian origins, Christmas has been mostly secular since its inception in the fourth century? (2024-12-24)
... that Ritsuko Taho once had her students at Harvard University slaughter a chicken and turn its bones into a sculpture? (2024-12-22)
... that Susan Finnegan was the first female head of the arachnids section at the Natural History Museum, London, but had to resign her job to marry? (2024-12-18)
... that Amrita Sher-Gil painted a portrait of Helen Chaman Lall without expecting a fee? (2024-12-16)
... that Gail Damerow was described by one magazine as "poultry's Cesar Millan"? (2024-12-15)
... that Elin Falk caused a national controversy in 1913 with her proposals for reforming gymnastics in Swedish schools? (2024-12-14)
... that Rada Dyson-Hudson was denied academic tenure at Johns Hopkins University and Cornell University despite her academic record and capabilities? (2024-12-11)
... that Celeste Caeiro's actions led to the naming of the 1974 coup in Portugal as the Carnation Revolution? (2024-12-09)
... that Annie Huggett, aged 103, was the oldest living suffragette at the time of her death in 1996? (2024-12-07)
... that Marie Denizard (pictured) stood as a candidate in a French presidential election in 1913, thirty years before French women achieved suffrage? (2024-12-04)
... that television director Diana Edwards-Jones introduced earpieces to permit direct communication between a control room and newsreaders? (2024-11-30)
... that Shadia Abu Ghazaleh was one of the first women to join the Palestinian resistance to the Israeli occupation of the West Bank? (2024-11-29)
... that the hips of some 19th-century Fijian young women were tattooed with veiqia when they reached puberty? (2024-11-28)
... that Victoria Espinosa directed the first performance of The Public, almost 50 years after it was written? (2024-11-27)
... that Soviet academic Lily Golden researched "officially disapproved" genres of contemporary Black music? (2024-11-27)
... that heavy-metal guitarist Kiki Wong (pictured) played drums for Taylor Swift before joining the Smashing Pumpkins? (2024-11-26)
... that after fleeing to Argentina as a Spanish Civil War refugee, Maria Muntañola Cvetković became one of Yugoslavia's first experts on microfungi? (2024-11-19)
... that the politician Veylma Falaeo is the first woman to be President of the Congress of New Caledonia? (2024-11-18)
... that ballerina Marina Kondratyeva served the Bolshoi Ballet and its school for over 70 years? (2024-11-17)
... that psychologist Sonya Friedman recommends that women create a totem, a collection of objects that represent important turning points in their lives? (2024-11-14)
... that Jeya Wilson invited New Zealand prime minister David Lange to debate the moral indefensibility of nuclear weapons at the Oxford Union? (2024-11-14)
... that Northern Cypriot minister of health İzlem Gürçağ Altuğra warned that her country would be destroyed unless it started producing drugs? (2024-11-13)
... that Margaret Pargeter published 49 books in eleven years, with another book following eleven years later? (2024-11-09)
... that Ukrainian journalist Victoria Roshchyna's car was once fired on by Russian tanks? (2024-11-08)
... that Grizel Niven created "The Bessie", the Women's Prize for Fiction statuette, which a past winner called "ugly"? (2024-11-08)
... that self-help author Beth Kempton held positions at both the 2002 FIFA World Cup in Tokyo and the 2012 Summer Olympics in London? (2024-11-04)
... that the Nualas' 2015 novelty song "Yes 2 Love" was created to promote a yes vote? (2024-11-03)
... that Marie Marcks sarcastically caricatured gender roles like no one before, according to Jutta Limbach? (2024-11-03)
... that one of the last surviving women from Rapa Nui to receive traditional facial tattoos was queen consort Ana Eva Hei? (2024-11-03)
... that Mitch Torres is a "self-proclaimed damper destroyer"? (2024-11-02)
... that a poultry farmer was the first woman to compete for the Sovereign's Prize, the highest honour in British rifle shooting? (2024-11-02)
... that a photograph of Chili Williams, known as the "Polka Dot Girl" (pictured), was one of the "two most famous pin-up pictures" of World War II? (2024-11-01)
... that the ghost of Margaret C. Waites is said to haunt an undergraduate suite at Harvard College's Cabot House, protecting her book collection? (2024-10-31)
... that the traditional Rapa Nui tattoos of Viriamo (pictured) included motifs similar to an adze and a paddle? (2024-10-28)
... that Filomena Fortes once said that she was "a bit critical of top-level sports in Cape Verde" despite being the president of its National Olympic Committee? (2024-10-28)
... that Queen Victoria supported Clare embroidery by purchasing dresses for her family? (2024-10-27)
... that Canadian punk rock musician Talli Osborne had only briefly spoken to the frontman of NOFX before the band wrote a song about her? (2024-10-26)
... that cartoonist Anna Haifisch (pictured) has been "bend[ing] the rules of comics"? (2024-10-25)
... that the early woman explorer Adèle de Dombasle travelled to Polynesia in 1847 and worked as an illustrator, drawing people such as Queen Pōmare IV? (2024-10-25)
... that Oxford suffragist Myvanwy Rhys earned first-class honours from Newnham College, Cambridge, but was denied a degree? (2024-10-22)
... that following the success of Jools Lebron's "demure" videos, she stated that she was able to use the proceeds to pay for her gender transition? (2024-10-21)
... that Tonia Ko once composed a three-part concerto played on bubble wrap? (2024-10-18)
... that Rose Betts wrote the song "Driving Myself Home" as a joke after a blind date, only for it to go viral on TikTok? (2024-10-15)
... that Cathy Merrick was the first woman to be elected grand chief of the Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs? (2024-10-14)
... that cyclist Daniela Larreal competed in five Olympic games for a country that later exiled her? (2024-10-12)
... that despite having no university training, Agnes Crane described a new species of brachiopod in 1886? (2024-10-12)
... that Victoria Siddall is the first woman to be appointed the director of the 168-year-old National Portrait Gallery in London? (2024-10-11)
... that voice actress Atsuko Tanaka often named pandas? (2024-10-09)
... that some of the work of lesbian feminist filmmaking pioneer Norma Bahia Pontes is lost media? (2024-10-07)
... that Mokulubete Makatisi placed eighth at the 2022 Commonwealth Games women's marathon despite running in new shoes that she had received late during the race? (2024-10-07)
... that Tuhi Martukaw led youth delegations to the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues for ten years in a row? (2024-10-05)
... that Elham Mahamid Ruzin, a blind Muslim Arab, won a silver medal for Israel at the 2024 Paris Paralympics? (2024-10-03)
... that Shoko Ikeda once admitted that Haruhi Suzumiya, a character she designed, was "just like me"? (2024-10-01)
... that Ajah Pritchard-Lolo is Vanuatu's first Olympic weightlifter? (2024-10-01)
... that English amateur geologist Charlotte Eyton wrote a number of papers and pamphlets on the geology of the Wrekin, a part of Shropshire, between 1862 and 1870? (2024-09-30)
... that Joanna Ferrone served as the business manager for the fictional character Fido Dido? (2024-09-21)
... that Alexina Kublu, a linguist, translator, Languages Commissioner, and the first justice of the peace in Nunavut, is her grandmother's father and her daughter's son, as per the Inuit namesake tradition? (2024-09-21)
... that Nicole Chang-Leng has been described as a "daughter" of the Seychelles? (2024-09-17)
... that Dorothy Stanley was once said to be one of the last speakers of the Miwok languages? (2024-09-13)
... that a contemporary adaptation of "The Snow Queen" contains feminist elements and, according to one scholar, violates gender expectations? (2024-09-12)
... that USA Boxing's head coach said that Olympian Jajaira Gonzalez's return to boxing was "like Lazarus coming back from the dead"? (2024-09-11)
... that Mary Jo West compared working in network TV news to learning that Santa Claus is just an ordinary man? (2024-09-10)
... that Greenlandic content creator Qupanuk Olsen petitioned the Inatsisartut to move Greenland's time zone to UTC−03:00? (2024-09-09)
... that Ana Sigüenza was the first woman to be the general secretary of a national trade union center in Spain? (2024-09-08)
... that although sport shooter Ban Hyo-jin attended Olympic trials just to gain some competition experience, she qualified for the Olympics and went on to win a gold medal? (2024-09-07)
... that Olympian Sydney Francisco was named after the city where her mother competed at the Olympics? (2024-09-06)
... that at the 2024 Olympics, unranked North Korean table tennis pair Ri Jong-sik and Kim Kum-yong defeated the defending champions and went on to win the silver medal? (2024-09-04)
... that a historian lamented the lack of English-language translations for the work of Aracy Amaral despite it being "a vital reference for the study of art history in Brazil"? (2024-09-02)
... that Nam Su-hyeon, Jeon Hun-young, and Lim Si-hyeon's gold medal in the women's team archery event at the 2024 Olympics marked South Korea's tenth victory in a row? (2024-09-01)
... that Belgian hardcore DJ Liza 'N' Eliaz was named a "spiritual leader" in France's free party movement? (2024-08-31)
... that soprano Grace Panvini stood 4 ft 11.75 in (151.8 cm) tall – a height described by one reviewer as an asset for appearing youthful on stage? (2024-08-31)
... that Sophie Kropotkin and her husband returned to France despite the risk of being arrested, as they thought that detention in a French prison would be preferable to living in England? (2024-08-30)
... that Titiou Lecoq (pictured) only realized that "women did not rule the universe" after she left home? (2024-08-27)
... that Begüm Pusat, a 15-year-old Turkish wheelchair basketballer, was one of the youngest players at the 2019 Women's U25 World Championship? (2024-08-27)
... that Kanaria's song "King" has been characterized as an allegory for the house arrest, trial, and execution of Louis XVI? (2024-08-23)
... that Eilish Cleary was controversially dismissed as New Brunswick's chief medical officer of health while studying glyphosate, a herbicide widely used in the province's industries? (2024-08-22)
... that Lisa M. Corrigan used the prison memoirs of black activists to show how incarceration impacted the black power movement? (2024-08-19)
... that soprano Joan Ruth rejected a marriage proposal because her suitor wanted her to abandon ambitions of a singing career? (2024-08-16)
... that Bengisu Avcı had to abandon her 45-kilometre (28-mile) swim across the Kaiwi Channel after being stung by jellyfish twelve hours in? (2024-08-16)
... that Amy Sawyer (pictured) was the only woman to contribute to the more than a thousand illustrations created for H. Rider Haggard's works during his lifetime? (2024-08-15)
... that voice teacher Verna Osborne retired at the age of 101? (2024-08-13)
... that while Sunny Choi and Logan Edra represent their country at the Olympics in breakdancing, Afghan breakdancer Manizha Talash competes as a member of the IOC Refugee Olympic Team? (2024-08-09)
... that Olympic taekwondo practitioner Emmanuella Atora described her career as "I hit people for a living"? (2024-08-08)
... that Olympian Ruby Remati got into synchronized swimming because she liked the competitors' "sparkly suits" as a child? (2024-08-07)
... that Aniya Holder secured a spot at the 2024 Summer Olympics by winning a speed climbing competition, for which she had started training without even knowing that it was an Olympics qualifier? (2024-08-05)
... that Olympic sprinter Filomenaleonisa Iakopo is also a competitive bodybuilder? (2024-08-03)
... that had Cambodian swimmer Apsara Sakbun declined her invitation to compete at the 2024 Summer Olympics, her sister would have become an Olympian instead? (2024-08-03)
... that at age 12, Emily Ausmus participated in an international water polo tournament against players as old as 19? (2024-08-02)
... that basketball player Marcedes Walker became an Olympian 16 years after her WNBA career ended? (2024-08-01)
... that after Wong Sau Ying attempted to assassinate a British colonial official, the police and press began to associate the bob cut with anarchism? (2024-07-31)
... that Sizzle Ohtaka, known as the "Queen of Commercial Songs", was producing them at a rate of ten per month? (2024-07-30)
... that Alyssa Mendoza and Andy Barat are the first Olympic representatives of their sport for their state and country, respectively? (2024-07-30)
... that Aminata Barrow is the first female Olympic swimmer for The Gambia? (2024-07-28)
... that Fathimath Dheema Ali is the first Olympic qualifier from the Maldives? (2024-07-27)
... that Chloë Farro, María Sara Grippoli, Edda Hannesdóttir, Viren Nettasinghe, Oyuntsetsegiin Yesügen, and Lê Đức Phát are flagbearers at today's Olympic opening ceremony? (2024-07-26)
... that South Korean actress Na O-mi's stage name was inspired by the song "I Dream of Naomi"? (2024-07-11)
... that Rosemary Miller won her state's skeet shooting championship one year after learning the sport, and then won a state shooting championship in all but two years for the rest of her life? (2024-07-10)
... that Anna Russell Cole, a significant benefactor of Vanderbilt University, donated $10,000 in 1926 to endow the office of dean of women? (2024-07-09)
... that Lois E. Trott ran the first lodging house for homeless girls in America, providing shelter and support for over 1,000 girls annually, all without receiving any payment? (2024-07-08)
... that the "mythical love story" of Sami politician Bjarne Store-Jakobsen and Blackfoot physician Esther Tailfeathers is a focus of the 2014 film Bihttoš? (2024-07-07)
... that Gladys Stone Wright got started with a year of free piano lessons and a $5 clarinet? (2024-07-05)
... that husband and wife Edward M. and Marie Zimmerman co-wrote the suffragist anthem "Votes for Women: Suffrage Rallying Song"? (2024-07-03)
... that Brittany Luse's podcast The Nod was praised for its exploration of "the diversity and richness of the Black experience"? (2024-06-30)
... that Sara Houcke began performing in circuses at the age of two as a child clown? (2024-06-28)
... that Native American studies professor Joely Proudfit has received tenure from three different universities? (2024-06-25)
... that Italian pianist and composer Maria Luigia Pizzoli posthumously received the title of Maestro di Contrappunto (master of counterpoint)? (2024-06-23)
... that playwright Vivian Cosby was hospitalized for three and a half years after lighting herself on fire because of a faulty gas heater? (2024-06-22)
... that Jaelyn Brown, who was born with two club feet, now plays in the WNBA? (2024-06-19)
... that Shirley Warde not only starred in theater and movie productions, but also wrote playscripts and short stories for magazines? (2024-06-14)
... that Rachel Brem discovered a tumor in her own breast while testing ultrasound equipment for her hospital? (2024-06-12)
... that Bianca Babb, a pioneer girl captured by Comanches, described her time among them as "every day seemed to be a holiday", despite the hardships of her initial capture? (2024-06-12)
... that in addition to her popular manga series Delicious in Dungeon, Ryoko Kui has drawn fan art of the games Baldur's Gate, Pathfinder and Planescape: Torment? (2024-06-11)
... that Carrie Swain was possibly the first woman entertainer to perform in blackface? (2024-06-09)
... that Syrian artist Kefah Ali Deeb painted an empty chair (pictured) as her vision of victims and refugees? (2024-06-07)
... that Elizabeth Yeampierre has called Puerto Rico the "poster child for climate injustice" due to the devastation caused by Hurricane Maria? (2024-06-03)
... that Olga Lander's camera required her to work close to the dangerous wartime subjects she photographed (example pictured)? (2024-05-29)
... that although Evgeniia Subbotina failed to escape her own exile in Siberia, she successfully aided the escapes of Catherine Breshkovsky, Yelizaveta Kovalskaya and Sofya Bogomolets? (2024-05-29)
... that Marie Catharine Neal, an expert on Hawaiian plants, authored the acclaimed book In Gardens of Hawaii in 1948, which described more than 2,000 species with detailed scientific information and illustrations? (2024-05-28)
... that Elizabeth Seifert, who was denied a medical degree due to her gender, went on to achieve success as a writer, penning more than 80 novels about the very field from which she had been excluded? (2024-05-28)
... that suffragette Ellen Oliver recognised "daughter of God" Mabel Barltrop as the spiritual child of prophet Joanna Southcott? (2024-05-27)
... that the Robyn Gigl novel By Way of Sorrow, which features a transgender lawyer as the protagonist, was described as "quietly groundbreaking" by The New York Times? (2024-05-25)
... that actress Nellie McCoy suffered a mental breakdown after her theatre performance was criticized, leading to her being committed to a sanatorium? (2024-05-24)
... that the 2024 inductees to the Delaware Sports Museum and Hall of Fame include a man with Down syndrome who has lifted 425 pounds (193 kg) (pictured), an "average gymnast" turned Olympics judge, a "preeminent sportswriter", the state's "greatest high hurdler", the "inventor" of the modern sports mascot, a record-setting 10-year-old, a champion gymnast, an Olympic field hockey player, and a pro baseball player in five countries? (2024-05-23)
... that Romani Holocaust survivor Philomena Franz wrote about her deportation to Auschwitz, internment in Ravensbrück, escape from a camp near Wittenberge, and concealment by a farmer? (2024-05-22)
... that Josephine Kenyon moved from recommendations of rigid scheduling to "on-demand" scheduling in editions of her book Healthy Babies Are Happy Babies? (2024-05-22)
... that Amie Parnes allegedly first heard about her employer, The Messenger, ceasing operations from a New York Times article? (2024-05-22)
... that although Agnes Kimball was a popular recording artist of opera and musical theatre, she never appeared as a singing actress on the stage? (2024-05-14)
... that actress Edna May Sperl's fiancé was arrested on the day of her wedding by a federal marshal because her fiancé's father opposed the marriage? (2024-05-12)
... that Addie Viola Smith was the first female Foreign Service officer to serve under the United States Department of Commerce? (2024-05-11)
... that actress Agnes Mapes had to improvise a complex choreographed dance from basic poses for the 1907 play The Holy City? (2024-05-05)
... that soprano Olga von Türk-Rohn (pictured) was celebrated for her interpretations of Franz Schubert's lieder? (2024-04-30)
... that the healthcare campaigner who pioneered organ donor cards in the UK placed a personal advertisement in The Times looking for a "cadaver kidney" for her son? (2024-04-30)
... that Iona Allen, "the only one to ever make a perfect pair of boots", constructed the pair worn by Neil Armstrong on the Moon out of thirteen layers of precisely fabricated material? (2024-04-25)
... that the young Turkish open water swimmer Aysu Türkoğlu has completed three of the Oceans Seven series? (2024-04-24)
... that before becoming a voice actress, Miyuki Ichijo left the NHK music variety show Stage 101 in protest over the removal of its director? (2024-04-22)
... that Full Personality Expression was an organization for cross-dressers that was originally called the Hose & Heels Club? (2024-04-14)
... that Alda Milner-Barry, the older sister of World War II Enigma codebreaker Stuart Milner-Barry, worked for British military intelligence during World War I? (2024-04-14)
... that Turkish sport shooter Şimal Yılmaz, who qualified for the 2024 Summer Olympics, had a shooting range in her living room? (2024-04-12)
... that The Gospel According to Jesus, Queen of Heaven, Jo Clifford's 2009 play featuring Jesus as a trans woman, was called an "offensive abuse of Christian beliefs" by Archbishop Mario Conti? (2024-04-08)
... that food stylist Susan Spungen estimated that she baked hundreds of pies with Josh Brolin and film staff while practicing for a scene in Labor Day? (2024-04-07)
... that Ellen Bernstein was called the "birthmother of Jewish environmentalism"? (2024-04-07)
... that the anarchist Rosa Laviña opened the first vegetarian restaurant in Tolosa? (2024-04-06)
... that Hildegard Temporini-Gräfin Vitzthum arrived at the University of Tübingen as a student in 1959, and remained there until her death in 2004? (2024-04-05)
... that in 1940 Xu Ruiyun became the first Chinese woman to receive a PhD in mathematics? (2024-04-03)
... that the novel series Aisling is based on a character archetype elaborated upon by users of a Facebook group? (2024-04-03)
... that the Canadian League for Peace and Democracy organized a 10,000-person rally at Maple Leaf Gardens in Toronto to protest a 2,500-person fascist rally? (2024-04-03)
... that Esther Merle Jackson, as a specialist in theatre and dance education at the United States Office of Education, intended to expand theater's role in the Great Society? (2024-03-31)
... that the Chevalier d'Eon de Beaumont inspired the name of the transgender rights organisation the Beaumont Society? (2024-03-31)
... that Velma Whitman had "one of the largest and most elaborate wardrobes" for a vaudeville performer thanks to her collection of designer-made English and French gowns? (2024-03-28)
... that footballer Keira Walsh first captained England in 2018, when she was the youngest player in the squad? (2024-03-28)
... that voice actresses Miharu Hanai and Aina Suzuki were revealed to be sisters when they were both cast in an anime TV series? (2024-03-27)
... that Jo-anne Wilkinson and Graeme Dingle crossed the Bering Sea in a leaking boat? (2024-03-25)
... that May O'Flaherty's purchase in 1949 of Parsons Bookshop, which would become a hub of activity in Dublin's Baggotonia, was inadvertent? (2024-03-24)
... that American mezzo-soprano Cecelia Hall portrayed the lead male role in Mozart's Ascanio in Alba? (2024-03-23)
... that despite a career writing queer literature, Chen Xue's 2019 novel Fatherless City had a "putatively straight premise"? (2024-03-22)
... that one of the buildings that house the Safe House Museum (pictured) was where Martin Luther King Jr. hid from the Ku Klux Klan on 21 March 1968, just weeks before he was assassinated? (2024-03-21)
... that Australian Madeleine Steere played water polo professionally in Turkey after studying biomolecular science in the United States? (2024-03-20)
... that as she commenced chemotherapy, Irish singer Majella O'Donnell raised more than €350,000 for the Irish Cancer Society with a sponsored head shave live on The Late Late Show? (2024-03-17)
... that the 1974 conference Transvestism and Transsexualism in Modern Society in Leeds became an early platform for the emergence of terms such as "gender alignment" and "trans.people"? (2024-03-16)
... that Patricia Grace did not intend for her novel Potiki, about the impact of land development on an indigenous community, to be seen as political? (2024-03-16)
... that the actress Lottie Williams was one of the cakewalk dancers depicted on the front cover of the sheet music for Scott Joplin's "Maple Leaf Rag" (pictured)? (2024-03-16)
... that trans women in Cape Verde are colloquially referred to as tchindas, named after Tchinda Andrade, the first trans woman in the country to come out publicly? (2024-03-13)
... that Enass Muzamel established the Sudanese Female Cyclists Initiative to challenge the stigma against women riding bikes in Sudan? (2024-03-10)
... that the journalist Wendell Steavenson's book Circling the Square covers the events of the 2011–2013 Egyptian crisis, which were centered around Cairo's Tahrir Square? (2024-03-07)
... that Nilüfer Gürsoy's memoirs detail the 1960 Turkish coup d'état, which overthrew her father? (2024-03-04)
... that Sarah McCreanor imitates objects under hydraulic presses through dance? (2024-02-27)
... that Maria Leshern von Herzfeld helped to organise the prison escape of the Russian revolutionary Peter Kropotkin? (2024-02-26)
... that for at least 90 minutes, Mori Calliope livestreamed herself begging video game developer Atlus to allow her to stream their game Persona 3? (2024-02-25)
... that Marie Vuillemin was acquitted in the trial of the Bonnot Gang, as the prosecution defined her according to her gender rather than her role in the gang? (2024-02-25)
... that Cora Agnes Benneson (pictured), one of the first female lawyers in New England, was rejected by Harvard Law School because "the equipments were too limited to make suitable provision for receiving women"? (2024-02-24)
... that all three of María Esther Biscayart de Tello's children were forcibly disappeared during the Dirty War in Argentina? (2024-02-23)
... that Maruxa and Coralia Fandiño Ricart (statues pictured) became famous in Galicia because their bright, colourful outfits contrasted with the social repression of Francoist Spain? (2024-02-22)
... that Dr. Disaster's office collapsed in an earthquake on this day in 2011? (2024-02-22)
... that chemist Betty Lou Raskin said in 1958 that society was wasting the "brainpower" of women, and blamed the media for making the mink coat the "symbol of female success" and not the lab coat? (2024-02-19)
... that Margareth Rago seeks to establish a methodology for what she calls "feminist science"? (2024-02-16)
... that Anjali Lama, Nepal's first transgender model, worked with Calvin Klein in 2019? (2024-02-16)
... that Maria Olovennikova was the only woman present at the founding conference of Narodnaya Volya? (2024-02-14)
... that Carmen Scheibenbogen was awarded the German Cross of Merit for her work on ME/CFS at the suggestion of patients and relatives? (2024-02-14)
... that Ukrainians Nadia Smyrnytska, Maria Kalyuzhnaya and Maria Kovalevska joined other prisoners in committing suicide to protest against the abuse of imprisoned women in Kara katorga? (2024-02-11)
... that Mwaksy Mudenda presented her first Blue Peter episodes in her house? (2024-02-10)
... that for her presentation at the 2008 Game Developers Conference, Jessica Mak simply played music and let go balloons in the audience? (2024-02-09)
... that at the age of 14, Jenny Suo conducted a science experiment that ultimately led to GlaxoSmithKline pleading guilty to breaching consumer protection laws? (2024-02-07)
... that after Nadezhda Bantle was exiled to the Russian North, she oversaw the development of the hospital in Nikolskoye to become the most advanced in its region? (2024-02-05)
... that Mariia Vetrova's self-immolation provoked student protests in Saint Petersburg, Moscow and Kyiv? (2024-02-05)
... that Martina Fernández plays football for Barcelona and studies part-time at a biomedical laboratory? (2024-02-04)
... that Annie Nathan Meyer's Black Souls was one of the first "lynching dramas" created by a white woman? (2024-02-04)
... that voice actress Mako Morino played volleyball for 14 years, but gave up the goal of playing professionally after being assigned to the non-serving libero position? (2024-02-01)
... that scientist Adelaida K. Semesi was known as "mama mangroves" due to her specialist knowledge of their ecology? (2024-02-01)
... that the author of the Alex novels says they are not semi-autobiographical, even though she was herself a champion teenage swimmer like the protagonist? (2024-01-31)
... that after fleeing the Spanish Civil War to Venezuela, Spanish anarchist Concha Liaño became a supporter of Hugo Chávez? (2024-01-29)
... that comedian Şenay Duzcu was awarded the German–Turkish Friendship Prize? (2024-01-28)
... that the 1830 abandonment of Chipewyan woman Matooskie (pictured) by her Scottish husband was eventually settled with a dowry payment of £200? (2024-01-26)
... that Japanese actress Junko Ikeuchi was known as the "Queen of TV Dramas" from the 1960s to the 1980s? (2024-01-25)
... that Sandra Elkin discussing basic information on women's topics on Woman "radicalized" women into supporting women's rights? (2024-01-22)
... that the life of Gloria Meneses is celebrated with an exhibition in the Plaza de la Diversidad Sexual in Montevideo? (2024-01-18)
... that Patricia Schultz, the author of 1,000 Places to See Before You Die, would choose Florence for her final trip before dying? (2024-01-17)
... that a "welding nun" angered farmers with her garbage-eating goat? (2024-01-17)
... that after Cora Victoria Diehl (pictured) was elected as the first woman to hold office in Oklahoma Territory, county records had to be recovered with dynamite when the incumbent refused to concede? (2024-01-17)
... that the murder of Luisa Lallana sparked a general strike in Rosario, Argentina? (2024-01-16)
... that Gamze Durmuş and her husband were the first referees to officiate a TFF First League match together? (2024-01-13)
... that Louise Julien may have been an inspiration for the character of Cosette in Les Misérables? (2024-01-12)
... that Julia Figueredo was the first indigenous woman to be elected president of La Paz's parliamentary delegation? (2024-01-04)
... that Sophie von Maltzan led the making of a submarine that was walked through the streets of Dublin? (2023-12-29)
... that in 1977, Appalachian folk singer Phyllis Boyens performed at a Christmas benefit concert to support Kentucky coal miners who had been on strike for 17 months? (2023-12-25)
... that a year after becoming the first woman president of the Canadian Political Science Association, Caroline Andrew moderated the first Canadian leaders' debate on women's issues? (2023-12-13)
... that Tsvetana Jermanova survived imprisonment in two forced labour camps in communist Bulgaria? (2023-12-12)
... that Turkish international soccer player Rojin Polat was named member of the "2021 All Schools Merit Girls Team" in New South Wales, Australia? (2023-12-09)
... that actress Louise Franklin replaced the main dancing role in 1945's Pillow to Post after Dorothy Dandridge was injured in a car accident? (2023-12-05)
... that in 2023, Tshering Tshomo was the only woman elected to serve in the National Council of Bhutan? (2023-12-03)
... that Erin Swenson was the first mainstream Protestant minister known to have undergone gender transition while in ordained office? (2023-11-28)
... that Mona Williams (pictured) said her degree from Stanford University was called a "wanky Yankee" degree when she arrived in New Zealand? (2023-11-26)
... that Lea Ackermann (pictured), a German nun of the Missionary Sisters of Our Lady of Africa, fought against forced prostitution and sex tourism in East Africa? (2023-11-23)
... that The Washington Post called Butts: A Backstory "cheeky"? (2023-11-23)
... that Martha Poma worked as a textile artisan in El Alto before being elected to the Bolivian senate? (2023-11-22)
... that Turkish carom billiards champion Güzin Müjde Karakaşlı grew up playing volleyball for about 12 years? (2023-11-22)
... that Susan Murabana created Africa's first permanent planetarium? (2023-11-18)
... that Hanthawaddy royal Saw Maha-Rit was executed for leaving behind his wife Princess Tala Mi Kyaw on the battlefield? (2023-11-03)
... that Julia Allison has been described as one of the first influencers? (2023-11-02)
... that Chen Xiaocui (pictured) helped to translate Sherlock Holmes into Chinese when she was still a child? (2023-11-01)
... that telephone operator Myriel Davies began her long career as a peace activist during the Suez Crisis? (2023-10-30)
... that Mary Jo Shelly (pictured) used her background in modern dance and physical education to train women in the military during two wars? (2023-10-24)
... that Julia Marden was the first known person to create a Wampanoag twined turkey-feather mantle since European contact 400 years earlier? (2023-10-21)
... that the Amazonas de Yaxunah, a Mayan softball team from Yucatán, play barefoot while wearing the huipil, a traditional indigenous dress? (2023-10-20)
... that English missionary Reverend Thomas Sparshott co-wrote a book in Swahili, and his daughter Margaret Elwyn Sparshott (pictured) was responsible as matron for 22 hospitals in World War I? (2023-10-17)
... that Sheryl Cooper (pictured) and her daughter Calico beheaded Sheryl's husband in front of a live audience? (2023-10-14)
... that wampum artist Elizabeth James-Perry also works on ecological restoration projects, including the reintroduction of native plant life? (2023-10-05)
... that Danish-Portuguese publisher Snu Abecassis was the first to publish both Pippi Longstocking and Solzhenitsyn in Portugal? (2023-10-04)
... that while serving in the Bolivian parliament, legislator Emeliana Aiza took night courses to receive her high school baccalaureate? (2023-10-04)
... that film director Christina Rosendahl started her career with a documentary about her sister Pernille's music career? (2023-10-01)
... that Olga Onuch is believed to be the first professor of Ukrainian politics in the English-speaking world? (2023-09-30)
... that soprano Vera Curtis was the first singer trained exclusively in the United States to perform with the Metropolitan Opera? (2023-09-29)
... that Nunuk Nuraini was described as a hero for developing the mi goreng flavor of Indomie instant noodles? (2023-09-29)
... that Chanig ar Gall joined her husband Charlez ar Gall in Breton-language broadcasting after learning the language itself? (2023-09-28)
... that clown Julia Masli (pictured) found success by shaking hands with audience members using her feet? (2023-09-20)
... that actress Diana Ingro (pictured) was known as the "Argentine Katharine Hepburn" due to her blonde hair? (2023-09-13)
... that advice columnist Nancy Brown crowdfunded the reforestation of a clearcut during the Great Depression? (2023-09-11)
... that in 2023 the IFLA named the Biblioteca Gabriel García Márquez the "best new public library in the world"? (2023-09-09)
... that Quechua senator Carmen García helped pass reforms to education in Bolivia that incorporated indigenous and traditional knowledge? (2023-09-06)
... that Regina Purtell took such great care of Theodore Roosevelt's Rough Riders that the press called her the Florence Nightingale of the Spanish–American War? (2023-09-03)
... that Patricia Mancilla pushed to have restrictions on abortion in Bolivia expunged from the legal code – even after leaders in her own party came out against it? (2023-09-03)
... that former New Jersey first lady Lucinda Florio restored the Italianate gardens at Drumthwacket? (2023-08-30)
... that goalkeeper Daniela Solera had the most touches of any Costa Ricanv player in their opening match of the 2023 World Cup, saving all but two of Spain's 46 shots? (2023-08-30)
... that Ashiq Peri was the first prominent female folk poet in Azerbaijan? (2023-08-30)
... that Thelma Bates's colleagues tried to discourage her from establishing the first palliative care team at a British hospital, saying it would ruin her career? (2023-08-28)
... that Gustav Klimt did not finish painting Johanna Staude's mouth in her portrait (pictured)? (2023-08-25)
... that Pany Yathotou is the first woman vice president of Laos? (2023-08-24)
... that Yokcushlu (pictured) was taken hostage on HMS Beagle and named after a basket? (2023-08-23)
... that Sue Marx won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Film for Young at Heart, about a romance between two octogenarians? (2023-08-23)
... that Bonnie Elliott devised the concept for a campaign to promote female representation in cinematography? (2023-08-20)
... that in between snowboarding runs at the 2022 Winter Olympics, Jenise Spiteri ate a bao that she forgot was in her pocket? (2023-08-19)
... that footballer Kameron Simmonds, who plays for Jamaica, only took up the sport after a gymnastics injury? (2023-08-18)
... that before Emine Arslan became a world kickboxing champion she was a child worker who smoked two packets of cigarettes a day? (2023-08-16)
... that Wu Xiaoyan, persecuted because of her adoptive father Wu Han, committed suicide 13 days before the end of the Cultural Revolution? (2023-08-15)
... that historian Anne Balay wrote two books on oral histories from LGBT steelworkers and truck drivers? (2023-08-15)
... that Soledad Rosas was falsely charged with eco-terrorism in Italy? (2023-08-08)
... that before becoming the first woman president of the American College of Sports Medicine, Barbara L. Drinkwater had an undefeated season as a women's college basketball coach? (2023-08-07)
... that Indian singer Sudakshina Sarma sang in Assamese as Mahatma Gandhi's ashes were immersed in the Brahmaputra River? (2023-08-05)
... that New Zealand footballer Milly Clegg was called "an absolute unicorn" after appearing at three FIFA World Cups in under twelve months? (2023-08-04)
... that 20,000 Species of Bees, the first feature film by Estibaliz Urresola Solaguren (pictured), won numerous awards at film festivals? (2023-08-03)
... that Catalina Estrada (pictured) and two of her thirteen siblings played as forwards on the same men's football team? (2023-08-01)
... that independent India's first female pilot, Usha Sundaram, holds the record for the fastest flight between England and India in a piston-engine aircraft? (2023-07-31)
... that footballer Alexandra Pinell scored the Costa Rica U20 team's only goal at the FIFA tournament hosted by their country? (2023-07-31)
... that Heba Saadia, the first Palestinian referee at a World Cup, only took up the profession when she noticed there were no women among a group of referees she saw training? (2023-07-30)
... that German cyclist Antonia Niedermaier won a stage on her first UCI Women's World Tour event, then crashed out of the event the next day? (2023-07-29)
... that New Zealand footballer Grace Wisnewski's bottom-ranked team upset the defending league champions when she scored what an A-League statistician called an "acrobatic" 99th-minute equalising goal? (2023-07-28)
... that Israeli journalist Ayala Hasson is the first woman to head Channel 1's news division? (2023-07-28)
... that in August 2021 Sheika Scott became the youngest player to score in the Costa Rican Women's Premier Division, at just 14 years old? (2023-07-27)
... that after Spanish footballer Elene Lete had to leave Spain's under-20 football team with an injury in 2022, she returned to join the senior World Cup squad in 2023? (2023-07-26)
... that Queen Lupa sent the disciples of James the Apostle to Mount Ilicino without telling them about a dragon? (2023-07-25)
... that the portrayal of a transgender child by Sofía Otero (pictured) made her the youngest actor to win the Silver Bear for Best Leading Performance? (2023-07-24)
... that Michaela Foster, a New Zealand footballer playing in the 2023 World Cup, is known for her mana? (2023-07-23)
... that when TVBoy's daughter said she wanted to be a footballer like Alexia Putellas, he painted a mural of Alexia as a superhero to inspire other girls? (2023-07-21)
... that in July 2023, Giulia Dragoni became the youngest person to represent any Italian senior national football team – including both men and women – in the 21st century? (2023-07-20)
... that Chimnabai Clock Tower (pictured) was named after a queen of Baroda State? (2023-07-20)
... that Patricia Davies and Jean Argles, two sisters who signed the Official Secrets Act as World War II codebreakers, did not find out about each other's top-secret work until the 1960s? (2023-07-19)
... that curator Nina Tonga is the first Pasifika person to be a contemporary art curator at Te Papa, the national museum of New Zealand? (2023-07-18)
... that Palmire Dumont, a pioneer of LGBT nightlife in "Gay Paree", was among the first members of the French Bulldog-Owners Club (her dog pictured) and met other bulldog owners in her lesbian bar? (2023-07-17)
... that the final stage of the 2023 Tour Féminin des Pyrénées was cancelled for safety reasons? (2023-07-17)
... that Ann Tahincioğlu was 49 years old when she competed in Turkey's first all-women car race, the "Volkswagen Polo Ladies Cup"? (2023-07-15)
... that an Armenian Apostolic Church lawsuit over the Zeytun Gospels led Heghnar Zeitlian Watenpaugh to write a history of its separated canon tables? (2023-07-14)
... that Seda Kaçan became Turkey's first race-winning female driver? (2023-07-08)
... that Edna Thomas portrayed Lady Macbeth in Orson Welles's "Voodoo" Macbeth? (2023-07-07)
... that Wanda Warska was nicknamed the "First Lady of Polish Jazz"? (2023-07-05)
... that due to her leftist beliefs, journalist Ana Amado was told not to come to work by her public television employer while her husband was on the death list of the Argentine Anticommunist Alliance? (2023-07-03)
... that as a young adult, lesbian novelist Lee Winter disliked the poor quality of lesbian fiction, preferring autobiographies by lesbian people? (2023-06-27)
... that while being considered for the post of ambassador to Paraguay, Lidia Patty brushed off her lack of diplomatic training because she had "indigenous, native, peasant diplomacy"? (2023-06-23)
... that Evelyn Pruitt was the highest-ranking woman scientist in the United States Navy when she retired in 1973? (2023-06-21)
... that Elizabeth Wilkins chose to work at the Federal Trade Commission on the hope that the agency is now positioned to address economic injustice? (2023-06-18)
... that after women's suffrage in Switzerland was approved in a referendum in 1971, the tabloid Blick sported a cover with a naked blonde and the headline "Thank you for the Roses"? (2023-06-18)
... that a report led by academic Cathy Nutbrown concluded that qualifications for vocational courses in childcare and early education were laxer than in animal welfare? (2023-06-17)
... that war correspondent Jurate Kazickas financed her plane ticket to Vietnam in 1967 with a US$500 win on the game show Password? (2023-06-16)
... that Zainab Salbi is the co-founder of Women for Women International and has authored multiple books? (2023-06-09)
... that United States Marine Corps captain Katie Higgins flew nearly 400 combat hours in seven countries before performing with the Blue Angels in an airplane named "Fat Albert"? (2023-06-09)
... that Belén Barenys and Berta Prieto's short film was picked up by Filmin after they suggested the idea on Instagram? (2023-06-06)
... that Lucy Greenish was the first woman in New Zealand to become a registered architect? (2023-06-05)
... that Caroline Breese Hall and her father, who were both pediatricians, once wrote the same book? (2023-06-05)
... that Leonie ter Braak made her film debut in The Marriage Escape, the film of Dutch origin with the most cinema ticket sales in 2020? (2023-06-04)
... that Linda Yaccarino, Twitter's new chief executive officer, created an advertising campaign for COVID-19 vaccines that featured Pope Francis? (2023-06-01)
... that before becoming a legislator, Bettina Petzold-Mähr played volleyball for Liechtenstein when they defeated Lichtenstein? (2023-05-27)
... that several composers wrote coloratura arias specifically for the voice of Italian opera singer Maria Giustina Turcotti? (2023-05-23)
... that Sheila P. Burke was once known as the 101st U.S. senator? (2023-05-22)
... that the art of Irma Blank, of "drawing languages without words" and including sounds, was recognised in the 1970s but fell into obscurity until a rediscovery in the 2010s? (2023-05-21)
... that Lynda Simmons co-founded Architecture + Women NZ with Sarah Treadwell, Julie Wilson and Megan Rule to push for equity in New Zealand architecture? (2023-05-20)
... that Ruth Northway is the United Kingdom's first professor of learning disability nursing? (2023-05-16)
... that Celine-Marie Pascale's work focuses on how race and class impact the way "business practices and government policies create, normalize and entrench economic struggles" to benefit the wealthy? (2023-05-14)
... that Lucy Salani is considered the only known Italian transgender person to survive the Nazi concentration camps? (2023-05-13)
... that Wanda Szuman, a pioneer of special education in Poland, was also active in underground education? (2023-05-12)
... that Cathy Whims has opened several restaurants in Portland, Oregon, including the Nostrana, which has been described as "Portland's capital of the Negroni"? (2023-05-10)
... that Marie Meyer's aerobatic stunts included standing on the upper wing of a biplane while it looped-the-loop (pictured)? (2023-05-08)
... that Helene Lecher's presentation at the Women at the Hague conference, which Mary Heaton Vorse described as the "most moving speech of all the Congress", urged for peace? (2023-05-06)
... that the destroyed plinth of Gürdal Duyar's nude sculpture Güzel İstanbul contained reliefs of a fig, a pomegranate, a honeysuckle and a bee to represent different aspects of Istanbul? (2023-05-06)
... that Mari Shimizu is nicknamed the "mother of voice actors" in Japan? (2023-05-05)
... that a fantasy novel by Irish poet and author Sarah Maria Griffin was sent to around 200,000 ticket-holders of the music festival Tomorrowland? (2023-05-03)
... that Mary Taft said in 1799 that stopping women from "bring[ing] souls to Christ" would, one day, be unbelievable? (2023-05-03)
... that for several decades, Soviet actress Maria Vladimirovna Mironova acted out scenes of a quarrelling couple on stage with her real-life husband? (2023-05-03)
... that Rufina Bazlova has used traditional embroidery to depict protests in Belarus? (2023-05-01)
... that Džuvljarke written by Vera Kurtić includes interviews with members of the LGBT community in Serbia and concludes that Romani lesbian women are often "invisible"? (2023-05-01)
... that after becoming one of the Mongolian Armed Forces' first female recruits, Bolor Ganbold is now its first female brigadier general? (2023-05-01)
... that goalkeeper Sophie Whitehouse, who has lived in England, Africa and the US, has been chosen to play soccer for the Republic of Ireland? (2023-04-30)
... that 47-year-old Turkish para-karateka Oya Ekici won the bronze medal at the 2022 European Championships? (2023-04-30)
... that Anne Cooke Reid founded the first Black summer theater in the United States? (2023-04-29)
... that soprano Carolina White performed the title role in the United States premiere of Il segreto di Susanna at the Metropolitan Opera in 1911? (2023-04-26)
... that Clara Stauffer was the only woman on the Allied Control Council's list of 104 wanted Nazis in Spain? (2023-04-24)
... that after losing her eyesight to toxoplasmosis, Rhina Aguirre dedicated herself to disability rights and was elected to the Bolivian Senate in 2009? (2023-04-17)
... that a pregnant Sally Buchanan was said to have carried bullets in her apron and distributed whiskey while singing during the Battle of Buchanan's Station? (2023-04-16)
... that Erich Korngold's Die tote Stadt had simultaneous premieres in Cologne and Hamburg in 1920, one with Johanna Geisler and her husband Otto Klemperer? (2023-04-16)
... that Armenian-Turkish soprano Sibil Pektorosoğlu released her first album after singing in a church choir for almost twenty years? (2023-04-15)
... that Mary Shadow, the first unmarried woman in the Tennessee House of Representatives, received fourteen marriage proposals after her election? (2023-04-14)
... that Audrey Whitty, who created an exhibition about the thousands of Irish children who died in care, is now the director of the National Library of Ireland? (2023-04-10)
... that a special case was instrumental to harpist Steffy Goldner's professional career and legacy? (2023-04-04)
... that Indian activist Birubala Rabha (pictured) has rescued more than thirty women from being persecuted as witches in the last decade? (2023-04-02)
... that out of 84 people running for governor seats in Bolivia in 2021, Mirtha Arce was one of just seven women and was the first in the Tarija Department to ever do so? (2023-03-30)
... that Bertha McNeill challenged policies of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom that excluded Black women from full membership in the organization? (2023-03-26)
... that to attend the 1915 Women at the Hague Congress, Eugénie Hamer and the Belgian delegates drove, were frisked, walked two hours, and took a train? (2023-03-22)
... that Cora Slocomb di Brazza designed the peace flag adopted by the International Council of Women, and her mother Abby Day Slocomb designed the Connecticut state flag? (2023-03-22)
... that soccer player Danielle Marcano scored four goals in back-to-back games that helped to send the University of Tennessee to the NCAA tournament quarterfinals for the first time in history? (2023-03-21)
... that Satoko Kishimoto is the first elected female mayor of Suginami, Tokyo? (2023-03-20)
... that Helene Scheu-Riesz created the first German translation of Alice Through the Looking-Glass but struggled with Lewis Carroll's made-up words? (2023-03-20)
... that Gloria Cameron was the first native Jamaican in the UK to appear on the British television programme This Is Your Life? (2023-03-19)
... that people sometimes wonder whether the contortionist Sofie Dossi has a spine? (2023-03-18)
... that excavations led by archaeologist Judith Marquet-Krause disproved that the Book of Joshua was a factual account of the city of Ai? (2023-03-17)
... that Dutch designer Sabine Marcelis was a semi-professional snowboarder in New Zealand before she decided to pursue a career in the arts? (2023-03-15)
... that Cara De Silva described a cookbook compiled by a woman in Terezin concentration camp as a record of "psychological resistance”? (2023-03-15)
... that Sister Maureen Keleher said that the first freestanding hospice in Hawaii was like an answer to prayer? (2023-03-12)
... that the support of conservationist Kae Miller (pictured) for people recovering from mental illnesses resulted in the establishment of Te Rae Kaihau Park in Wellington, New Zealand? (2023-03-11)
... that Ida Ospelt-Amann led the revival of dialect poetry in Liechtenstein and was awarded the Golden Cross of Merit? (2023-03-11)
... that Shirley Kurata is said to have "subverted and reclaimed Asian-centric tropes" through her "outrageous" costume designs for movie villain Jobu Tupaki? (2023-03-10)
... that New Zealand activist Pania Newton (depicted) gave up a legal career to become an activist and spokesperson for the preservation of her ancestral lands at Ihumātao? (2023-03-08)
... that National Treasure: Edge of History lead Lisette Olivera was dissuaded from an acting career as a child but studied dance, vocals and music? (2023-03-08)
... that during the first tour to the Soviet Union by any American ballet company, Lupe Serrano (pictured) danced the first encore in the American Ballet Theatre's history? (2023-03-04)
... that Gloria Orwoba raised awareness about period poverty by appearing in the Senate of Kenya in apparently blood-stained trousers? (2023-03-04)
... that Mimi Kilgore gifted Willem de Kooning a frog that had been run over by a car? (2023-02-19)
... that American folklorist Esther Shephard collected tall tales from logging camps in the state of Washington to complete her 1924 book about Paul Bunyan? (2023-02-19)
... that African-American journalist Erna P. Harris (pictured) was called a "fearless critic" of the internment of Japanese Americans by the US government during World War II? (2023-02-18)
... that in 2022, Briton Charlotte Payne broke the world record for a hammer throw by a deaf woman by almost 5 metres (16 ft)? (2023-02-17)
... that popular Korean folk singer Wang Su-bok was given birthday gifts by both Kim Il-sung and Kim Jong-il? (2023-02-14)
... that conservator Carolyn Price Horton helped to direct a "Mud Angel army" that rescued books after the Arno flooded museums and libraries in Florence, Italy, in 1966? (2023-02-13)
... that "Step Chickens" on TikTok replace their profile pictures with an image (shown) of Melissa Ong, whom they call "Mother Hen"? (2023-02-10)
... that the last meal the Luttra Woman (skull pictured) had was raspberries? (2023-02-09)
... that Enriqueta Medellín, a Mexican surgeon, has an ecological center and environmental prize named after her in the state of Aguascalientes? (2023-02-08)
... that Berta Berkovich, who was skilled in sewing, managed to survive Auschwitz in a fashion salon established by the wife of the concentration camp commandant? (2023-02-07)
... that Laura Bergt was said to have gained millions of acres of land for Native Alaskans by Eskimo-kissing Vice President Spiro Agnew (pictured)? (2023-01-27)
... that as a last-minute substitute in a premiere performance at Oper Frankfurt, Elena Manistina sang from the side while the assistant director mimed onstage? (2023-01-27)
... that the Daughters of the American Revolution opposed Marjorie Lynch's nomination to a government post due to her birth in Britain? (2023-01-26)
... that Kakusan-ni was the founding abbess of a Buddhist convent that was a refuge for women running away from their husbands? (2023-01-24)
... that Isabel Cooper painted live snakes while holding them in her hand? (2023-01-22)
... that Elisabeth Waterhouse founded the National Chamber Music Course summer school in 1974 and has managed it since? (2023-01-21)
... that British architect Diane Haigh transformed one historic building into an art gallery and another into a hospice? (2023-01-20)
... that before Sarah Elmaleh voiced the player character in the video game Anthem, developed by BioWare, she voiced characters in a mod of an earlier BioWare game? (2023-01-19)
... that Park Ji-hyun helped to expose an online sex-crime ring and later became the interim co-chair of the Democratic Party of Korea at the age of 26? (2023-01-17)
... that Liz Shore's nomination to be Chief Medical Officer of the United Kingdom was vetoed by Margaret Thatcher because of her husband's political affiliation? (2023-01-17)
... that Antoinette Tidjani Alou (pictured) wrote a work of autofiction that traces the journey of a Jamaican woman who moved to Niger for love? (2023-01-17)
... that campaigning by climate activist Kimiko Hirata halted plans to build 17 new coal-fired power plants following the Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan? (2023-01-15)
... that American educator Janet Sorg Stoltzfus (pictured) established the first foreign school in northern Yemen? (2023-01-14)
... that Paramount Chief Matilda Lansana Minah V has backed a 30-percent quota for the representation of women in the parliament of Sierra Leone? (2023-01-13)
... that writer Eliza Bland Smith Erskine Norton married two different men who both lost an arm in battle? (2023-01-13)
... that soprano Galina Pisarenko studied economics, English, and Norwegian at the same time she was studying to become a professional opera singer? (2023-01-12)
... that diplomat Lê Thị Tuyết Mai (pictured) studied at three different universities in three different countries? (2023-01-10)
... that Akshata Murty, the wife of British prime minister Rishi Sunak, reportedly has more personal wealth than King Charles III? (2023-01-07)
... that Wilhelmine Key (pictured) studied wasps as a child, and as an adult she kept them as pets? (2023-01-03)
... that Minnesota legislator Claudia Meier cosponsored a bill freeing women from having to take their husbands' last names, and then took her husband's last name? (2023-01-01)
... that Turkish world- and European-champion armwrestler Esra Kiraz used to carry cement bags at construction sites where her father worked? (2022-12-30)
... that the poetry collection of Guyanese radio presenter Shana Yardan was described as "accomplished, tough-minded and well-crafted"? (2022-12-28)
... that author Ann Howard interviewed more than 100 Australians about their experiences as child evacuees sent inland during World War II when a Japanese invasion seemed imminent? (2022-12-27)
... that the Brooklyn Nine-Nine storyline about Rosa Diaz's bisexuality was heavily influenced by the bisexuality of her portrayer? (2022-12-26)
... that after winning a discrimination lawsuit against the Honolulu Police Department, Lucile Abreu became its first female detective? (2022-12-26)
... that American author Marilyn Gayle Hoff was honored by a Fourth of July parade float as an unsung hero? (2022-12-23)
... that Carolyn Grace was the only qualified female pilot of the Supermarine Spitfire ever to take part in display flying? (2022-12-22)
... that Frances Campbell-Preston, who served as lady-in-waiting to Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother for nearly 40 years, was reportedly not hesitant to ask her difficult questions when others were reluctant? (2022-12-14)
... that aerospace engineer Sabrina Thompson (pictured) founded a streetwear brand after she felt the "artist inside of me was internally starving", despite being satisfied with her career? (2022-12-13)
... that Olive MacLeod (pictured) journeyed 6,000 km (3,700 mi) through Africa in 1910–1911 to visit her murdered fiancé's grave, and wrote a book based on her observations? (2022-12-12)
... that Nettie Metcalf was the first woman recognized by the American Poultry Association for creating a breed of chicken, the Buckeye chicken (example pictured), in the 1890s? (2022-12-10)
... that Katharina Cibulka has created monumental feminist messages in cross-stitch that cover scaffolding at construction sites? (2022-12-08)
... that the uncommon Florida lichen species Gyalectidium yahriae was named after Rebecca Yahr of the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh in Scotland? (2022-12-06)
... that Rosalind Creasy wrote a landmark book on edible landscaping? (2022-12-05)
... that Elisabeth Griffith's sweeping 100-year history of the American equal-rights movement has been compared to listening to Billy Joel's "We Didn't Start the Fire"? (2022-12-03)
... that at 102 years old, Christian Lamb is one of the last surviving officers of the Women's Royal Naval Service who served throughout World War II? (2022-11-26)
... that María Urquides was the "Mother of Bilingual Education"? (2022-11-24)
... that Eritrean poet Yirgalem Fisseha Mebrahtu was imprisoned for six years without trial, and later published poems in Tigrinya based on her experience? (2022-11-23)
... that astrophysicist Suzanna Randall (pictured) continued her research at the European Southern Observatory while training for the spaceflight programme Die Astronautin? (2022-11-23)
... that the Danish geologist Tove Birkelund (pictured) received a gold medal for her early work on fossils of Scaphites in Greenland? (2022-11-19)
... that Enriqueta Legorreta (pictured), who was the first Mexican woman to appear as Sieglinde in Wagner's Die Walküre, became an award-winning environmental activist? (2022-11-17)
... that Carol Wilson had to pretend that she was a schoolteacher when unofficially representing England at the 1971 Women's World Cup? (2022-11-06)
... that in 1919 Ethel Hampson Brewster compared dropping ancient history from school curricula to "knock[ing] out the first two stories of a skyscraper"? (2022-11-05)
... that Şebnem Korur Fincancı, a drafter of a United Nations guideline on the documentation of torture, was arrested after she suggested an investigation into the use of chemical weapons? (2022-11-04)
... that there was an initial agreement for chimpanzees from the private zoo of Rosalía Abreu (pictured) to be part of an experiment to breed a humanzee? (2022-11-03)
... that, in 2018, Tara Jones both captained a women's Super League team and was the first female match official in the men's Super League? (2022-11-01)
... that Juliet Rice Wichman once stood in front of a bulldozer to prevent the destruction of a rock wall? (2022-11-01)
... that Rabab Al-Kadhimi was threatened with deportation from Egypt due to the political nature of her poetry? (2022-10-31)
... that Silvia Hauer, a singer of Rossini's Rosina and Bizet's Carmen at Staatstheater Wiesbaden, performed the mezzo-soprano solo of Verdi's Requiem in 2022? (2022-10-30)
... that after Claudia Fleming's dessert cookbook went out of print due to poor sales, used copies began circulating on eBay for hundreds of dollars? (2022-10-29)
... that Betty Hall introduced a New Hampshire bill that would have petitioned the United States Congress to impeach George W. Bush? (2022-10-25)
... that portraits of Lucy de László with a violin (one portrait pictured), painted by her husband, are recognised as some of the first examples of portraiture to include womens' talents in them? (2022-10-23)
... that the memorabilia of Jennie Scott Griffiths, a Texan who died in California, are housed in the National Library of Australia? (2022-10-23)
... that Cary Grant taught Sylvia Wu how to make shredded chicken salad? (2022-10-20)
... that Annie Dove Denmark was offered residency on campus for the rest of her life after resigning as the president of Anderson College? (2022-10-19)
... that from 1912, Jindřiška Flajšhansová was the principal editor of Ženské listy, a Czech journal that became a women's "survival manual" during World War I? (2022-10-18)
... that Christy Martin vs. Deirdre Gogarty has been called the fight that "put women's boxing on the map"? (2022-10-18)
... that former child refugee Ann Beaglehole has become a historian specialising in refugee history? (2022-10-18)
... that in 2021 Sarah Aristidou recorded Jörg Widmann's Labyrinth V, a wordless piece for her soprano voice with "ululations, sobs, jazz inflections and wild laughter"? (2022-10-17)
... that Ruth Huenemann was one of the first researchers to make a connection between socioeconomic status and childhood obesity? (2022-10-13)
... that Mary Ridge blew up the Liberator on her first encounter with Blake's 7, and killed off the crew on her last? (2022-10-13)
... that Cathie Dunsford (pictured) was unable to find many books about lesbianism in the 1970s, but by the 1980s had herself become a writer and anthologist of lesbian literature? (2022-10-12)
... that Tova Friedman is a Holocaust survivor who now posts videos of her life and survival on TikTok? (2022-10-10)
... that Cleo Damianakes's 1920s book dust jacket designs "made sex respectable", but Hemingway did not like the "large misplaced breasts" on A Farewell to Arms? (2022-10-10)
... that Elise Reiman, who taught children's classes at George Balanchine's School of American Ballet for four decades, was called "the bridge between generations"? (2022-09-30)
... that Sarah Ashton-Cirillo, covering the Russian invasion of Ukraine, said that Ukrainians care less about her being transgender than Americans do? (2022-09-29)
... that Rakhel Feygenberg wrote her first novel at age 13, but was forced to burn it by her relatives? (2022-09-26)
... that the first film written and directed by Marysia Nikitiuk (pictured) has been called one of the "most iconic" works of modern Ukrainian cinema? (2022-09-26)
... that yachting photographer Eileen Ramsay damaged many Rolleiflex cameras by attempting to take photos at water level? (2022-09-22)
... that actress Zita Moulton first starred in theatre performances after a bet with her fiancé that she would be able to get a stage job within 24 hours? (2022-09-20)
... that according to Modern Times, a San Francisco–based bookstore collective, if there was only one book that you read in 1975 it had to be Canadian author and activist Helen Potrebenko's Taxi!? (2022-09-20)
... that Tala Bashmi played on the Bahrain women's national football team for seven years before opening a restaurant in a Manama hotel? (2022-09-17)
... that 22-year-old Brazilian women's football forward Thays Ferrer was a member of club teams that won national championships in four different countries? (2022-09-14)
... that Dorli Rainey, at the age of 84, was pepper-sprayed by police at a 2011 Occupy Seattle protest, making her a symbol of the Occupy Wall Street movement? (2022-09-13)
... that Sheila Egoff, Canada's first professor of children's literature, returned to her library work immediately after retirement? (2022-09-12)
... that a New York pop-up restaurant opened by Louisa Shafia served stews and rice dishes described in a review as a "Persian-tapas gateway into the ancient cuisine"? (2022-09-10)
... that Susan Silk developed ring theory (pictured) when a colleague said that Silk's breast cancer wasn't just about her? (2022-09-08)
... that rhythmic gymnast Gemma Frizelle won a gold medal at the 2022 Commonwealth Games performing to her mother's favourite song? (2022-09-06)
... that the first woman mayor in Metropolitan Toronto, Beth Nealson, ran against True Davidson in a 1966 mayoral race called the "Battle of the Belles"? (2022-09-05)
... that Mihi Edwards did not use her own name as a young woman because of discrimination against Māori people in New Zealand? (2022-09-03)
... that the woodcarver Violet Pinwill of the Pinwill sisters was still working on a life-size figure of Saint Peter days before her death in 1957, aged 82? (2022-09-01)
... that when Winifred Brown (pictured) arrived for the King's Cup air race in 1930, she was not allowed to stay at the aero club but still won the race? (2022-08-30)
... that New Zealand composer Maewa Kaihau sold her rights to the song "Now is the Hour" for £10, a decade before it became a hit in the United Kingdom and United States? (2022-08-30)
... that cosmetic chemist Balanda Atis created the foundation worn by Lupita Nyong'o in advertisements for Lancôme? (2022-08-30)
... that Esther Cuesta was an undocumented migrant in the United States long before she was elected to represent about 800,000 Ecuadorian migrants? (2022-08-29)
... that until Rufina Peter and Kessy Sawang's election in August 2022, Papua New Guinea was one of only three countries without a woman in parliament? (2022-08-28)
... that ballerina Ashley Ellis started her own dancewear brand after her colleagues at Boston Ballet asked her to make leg warmers for them? (2022-08-28)
... that Alice Kuperjanov (pictured) was one of the founders of the Estonian women's movement and assisted military efforts during the Estonian War of Independence? (2022-08-28)
... that in Crippled, author Frances Ryan describes a disabled British woman who was unable to afford heating or her specialist meals due to an austerity programme that began in 2010? (2022-08-26)
... that the unacknowledged contributions of Eunice Newton Foote to climate change research were recovered by Elizabeth Wagner Reed, whose research in genetics were also obscured? (2022-08-22)
... that in 1935, Indian princess Indira Devi (pictured) secretly travelled to London to become an actress, telling only her two sisters? (2022-08-20)
... that after Claudia Winterstein dropped plans to become an architect because of the Berlin Wall, she led her party as a member of the Bundestag? (2022-08-20)
... that the US Special Envoy for Afghan women and girls, Rina Amiri, is a former refugee who told US Senator John Kerry that "the Afghan population is not the Taliban"? (2022-08-19)
... that Kyaymyin Mibaya was King Mindon's youngest, last and richest queen? (2022-08-16)
... that creating visual art led Maya Pindyck to write poetry? (2022-08-12)
... that Ruslana Pysanka, who hosted a Ukrainian television program together with Volodymyr Zelenskyy from 2008, died as a refugee in Germany? (2022-08-10)
... that Colombian singer Juanita Lascarro became a soprano at the Oper Frankfurt, where she appeared as both Calypso and Penelope in a new production of Dallapiccola's Ulisse? (2022-08-09)
... that Avelina Carrera (pictured) made her debut at the Liceu in Barcelona in 1889, stepping in as Elsa in Wagner's Lohengrin, and created the role of Maddalena in Giordano's Andrea Chénier at La Scala? (2022-08-08)
... that Laura J. Crossey has shown that travertines (example pictured) are more likely to form when meteoric groundwater mixes with deeper groundwater from the Earth's mantle? (2022-08-06)
... that Suzie Zuzek's impactful 1960s and 1970s textile designs for Lilly Pulitzer dresses (examples pictured) were recovered from under floorboards? (2022-08-05)
... that according to investigations by independent press agencies, journalist Shireen Abu Akleh (pictured) was killed by an Israel Defense Forces bullet while wearing a blue "press" vest? (2022-08-03)
... that actress Daisy Belmore disfigured her appearance for a character in a play so significantly that she was barely recognised in the street by audience members? (2022-08-03)
... that Alice King overcame her disability to lead Bible classes and write eleven novels? (2022-08-02)
... that Katja Husen was the speaker of the Green Youth, a member of the Hamburg Parliament, and the CEO of the Centre for Molecular Neurobiology Hamburg? (2022-08-01)
... that after Keri Blakinger left Cornell University to serve time in prison for possession of heroin, she returned to finish her degree and then became a criminal justice reporter? (2022-07-31)
... that Catherine Flanagan was arrested and jailed in 1917 for picketing the White House in support of women's suffrage? (2022-07-31)
... that in 1946, Margrethe Parm (pictured) was appointed the director of a women's prison that had been used as a political prison during the German occupation of Norway? (2022-07-30)
... that Margot Sponer used her international network of contacts to help people escape persecution in Nazi Germany? (2022-07-29)
... that Canadian paediatrician Gladys Boyd was one of the first physicians to treat diabetic children with insulin? (2022-07-29)
... that Anita Rivas, an Ecuadorian mayor, visited the United Kingdom and offered to stop oil drilling in a rainforest in Yasuní National Park? (2022-07-28)
... that Angéline de Montbrun by Laure Conan is the first psychological novel written by a French Canadian? (2022-07-28)
... that no wave band Pulsallama was described as "13 girls fighting over a cowbell"? (2022-07-27)
... that Ada Buisson died at the age of 27, and her short story "The Ghost's Summons" has been anthologised several times since her death? (2022-07-27)
... that when Heather Engebretson portrayed the title role of Puccini's Madama Butterfly for the first time, a reviewer said that her voice "can tremble with panic and shine with hope"? (2022-07-26)
... that after the Italian soprano Fausta Labia (pictured) worked at the Royal Swedish Opera, she appeared as Mascagni's Iris at La Fenice in Venice and as Wagner's Sieglinde at La Scala in Milan? (2022-07-26)
... that Gita Sarabhai was among the first women to play the pakhavaj (example pictured), a traditional musical instrument of India? (2022-07-24)
... that French soprano Marguerite Vaillant-Couturier created the role of Micaëla in the world premiere of Lecocq's Le coeur et la main (pictured) in Paris in 1882? (2022-07-23)
... that Julia Dawson's first Clarion Van (pictured) was named for Scottish socialist Caroline Martyn? (2022-07-23)
... that former Dutch rugby union player Sylke Haverkorn served as head coach of the Turkey women's national team before securing the same position at her country's women's national team? (2022-07-22)
... that after finding success in Poland and South America, soprano Adalgisa Gabbi performed at La Scala as Eva in the Italian premiere of Wagner's Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg? (2022-07-22)
... that Danish-born soprano Louise Janssen appeared at the Grand Théâtre de Lyon as Eva in the French premiere of Wagner's Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg? (2022-07-21)
... that Evgenia Debryanskaya, the lesbian activist who co-founded Russia's first gay-rights organization, was the first wife of Aleksandr Dugin, Vladimir Putin's "Rasputin"? (2022-07-21)
... that the favourite role of Wilma Schmidt, who performed at the Staatsoper Hannover for more than five decades in German, Italian and Slavic operas, was the Marschallin in Der Rosenkavalier? (2022-07-20)
... that activist Gerlin Bean co-founded the Organisation of Women of African and Asian Descent in 1978, an event described as "a watershed in the history of Black women's rights activism"? (2022-07-19)
... that Pooja Sharma (pictured) employs 150 women in a bakery that she started in a reputedly haunted mansion? (2022-07-18)
... that Ellaisa Marquis has been called the "marquis player" of women's football in Saint Lucia? (2022-07-18)
... that Welsh shot putter Adele Nicoll was approached about taking up bobsleigh based on a video on social media of her exercising? (2022-07-18)
... that María Chiquinquirá was allowed to remain free until a court heard her case, but since it never did she died a free woman? (2022-07-17)
... that counterterrorism expert Esperanza Casteleiro used to work in human resources? (2022-07-17)
... that Ursula Sillge's attempt to organize a 1978 national lesbian gathering in East Germany led to the banning of Charlotte von Mahlsdorf's venue for LGBT meetings? (2022-07-16)
... that research on short-finned pilot whales (example pictured) by Natacha Aguilar de Soto is leading scientists to reassess foraging models for the behavior of marine predators? (2022-07-16)
... that in 2020, Ukrainian association football referee Maryna Striletska was part of the first all-woman officiating team for a men's international football match? (2022-07-16)
... that Ann Klein supported a successful bill that allowed women to register to vote in New Jersey without disclosing their marital status? (2022-07-15)
... that Greenlandic author Pipaluk Freuchen was praised for the "unrelenting realism" in her first book, where a child kills a polar bear? (2022-07-11)
... that prior to Mary Manhein's forensic-anthropology work in Louisiana, unidentified bones (examples pictured) "usually ended up in a box"? (2022-07-11)
... that Judith Ehrlich incorporated her NPR work on pacifism into a documentary focusing on conscientious objectors during World War II? (2022-07-11)
... that Chris Ernst stripped naked in 1976 with her Yale University teammates to protest the lack of showers for the women's rowing crew? (2022-07-07)
... that in the 1980s, international LGBT organizations organized protests in Europe and the Americas in support of Belgian teacher Eliane Morissens? (2022-07-06)
... that the Ukrainian violinist Diana Tishchenko played Skoryk's Melody on a tour of the Kyiv Symphony Orchestra to Germany in April 2022? (2022-07-05)
... that actress Hilda Hanbury was the grandmother of actors James and Edward Fox and the great-grandmother of actress Emilia Fox? (2022-07-03)
... that Lebanese LGBT rights activist Sandra Melhem, one of the foremost promoters of drag culture in Beirut, was awarded for her humanitarian relief work after the 2020 Beirut explosion? (2022-07-01)
... that Pat Gozemba married her wife while researching a book about the history of the struggle for equal marriage in Massachusetts? (2022-07-01)
... that Internet activist Sally Burch was refused entry into Argentina because her presence was considered to be disruptive? (2022-06-30)
... that a journalist dubbed Olena Shevchenko (pictured) as "probably the most famous lesbian in Ukraine"? (2022-06-30)
... that singer Patsy Torres was referred to as the "princess of Tejano music"? (2022-06-28)
... that Ecuadorian politician Paola Cabezas (pictured) realized that she needed to stop straightening her hair when her niece described her own unstraightened hair as "ugly"? (2022-06-28)
... that National Women's Day in Pakistan commemorates a 1983 march against a law that devalued the testimony of Pakistani women to half that of men? (2022-06-27)
... that the mezzo-soprano Wilhelmine Holmboe (pictured), who studied in Paris with Pauline Viardot and moved to Italy to perform, was one of the first Norwegian women to be acclaimed internationally for her singing? (2022-06-25)
... that Lady Eva Julius once called Girl Guiding "the most important youth movement in the world"? (2022-06-25)
... that Sophie Freud, the granddaughter of Sigmund Freud, criticized his theory of psychoanalysis as a "narcissistic indulgence"? (2022-06-24)
... that Julie Beckett lobbied for the Katie Beckett Medicaid waiver, which enabled hundreds of thousands of disabled children to be cared for by their families at home instead of a hospital? (2022-06-23)
... that American artist Inez Demonet created watercolors of facial injuries for the War Department? (2022-06-23)
... that Ukrainian designer Anna October showed her collection during Paris Fashion Week after escaping the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine? (2022-06-22)
... that Victoria Desintonio (pictured) successfully proposed a "citizen observatory" watchdog to reduce gender violence in Ecuador? (2022-06-21)
... that Olympic diver Millie Hudson, who attempted to swim across the Strait of Gibraltar in 1928, was a member of the Hammersmith Ladies Swimming Club along with Belle White, the first British diver to win an Olympic medal? (2022-06-20)
... that Rosana Alvarado was one of three women leading Ecuador's National Assembly in 2017? (2022-06-18)
... that British oceanographer Sonya Legg has studied the South China Sea, where waves can be taller than 200 metres (660 ft)? (2022-06-16)
... that a statue of the Elamite queen Napir-Asu is inscribed with a curse for its would-be vandals? (2022-06-16)
... that actress Klara Höfels, known for her roles in television crime series, also produced, directed, and starred in world premieres of theatre projects in Berlin? (2022-06-16)
... that Maria Olsvik was called up to the Norway national football team for the first time one year after giving birth? (2022-06-15)
... that Sofía Sanchez (pictured) loved soccer and she played for a leading Spanish side, but her mother said "study" and she now sits in Ecuador's National Assembly? (2022-06-14)
... that Luz del Carmen Ibáñez Carranza was Abimael Guzmán's prosecutor before being elected the first Peruvian judge of the International Criminal Court? (2022-06-14)
... that Paula Lizell, a former star of the Royal Swedish Opera, advanced from coloratura to dramatic Wagnerian roles? (2022-06-12)
... that Madhulika Ramteke's (pictured) microfinance bank for Indian women grew to have over 5,000 "branches"? (2022-06-12)
... that in 2022 Sandhya Dhar has received both a Nari Shakti Puraskar and a bronze medal in boccia at the Indian national championships? (2022-06-11)
... that Nathalie Viteri was dismissed from Ecuador's National Assembly but she is now one of the top five members contributing to their debates? (2022-06-11)
... that Artemisia Gentileschi produced the first of her four renderings of Susanna and the Elders (pictured) at the age of 17, shortly before she accused two well-respected older men of rape? (2022-06-10)
... that Kelsie Whitmore was part of the first all-female battery in professional baseball since the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League? (2022-06-09)
... that Olga Rudenko, who was chosen as the editor-in-chief of the newspaper The Kyiv Independent, appeared on the cover of Time? (2022-06-08)
... that Liva Järnefelt performed leading roles at the Royal Swedish Opera, such as Ortrud in Wagner's Lohengrin (pictured), and Bizet's Carmen, which she also performed for her 25th anniversary with the company? (2022-06-07)
... that actress Dorothy Van Engle starred in the 1935 movie Murder in Harlem with a "proto-feminist role" that was then a primary source of positive representation for African Americans in film? (2022-06-06)
... that Albania's first professional woman painter was Androniqi Zengo Antoniu, who painted impressionist portraits and landscapes, as well as religious art in churches? (2022-06-06)
... that Aguil Chut-Deng took 22 child refugees from South Sudan to Ethiopia during civil war so that they could attend school? (2022-06-05)
... that Kim E. Nielsen trained as a historian of women and politics, and came to disability history and studies via her discovery of Helen Keller's political life? (2022-06-04)
... that Visigothic noblewoman Sara al-Qutiyya took back the land her uncle stole by travelling to Damascus and petitioning the caliph? (2022-06-02)
... that Hanna Dmyterko (pictured) was among 34 Ukrainian women who fought in World War I? (2022-06-02)
... that Indian women's hockey player Elvera Britto and her sisters would stitch their own team uniforms while playing in the 1960s? (2022-05-30)
... that Margaret Ramsay-Hale has worked as a judge in three countries? (2022-05-29)
... that the newly named Cirsium funkiae honors the describer's mentor, Vicki Funk, and the plant's funky appearance? (2022-05-29)
... that a giant breast destroying a spaceship Mark Zuckerberg in the music video for "Ay mamá" is a criticism of Meta's censorship of female nipples? (2022-05-28)
... that when Nadja Stefanoff portrayed the title role of Giordano's Fedora at the Oper Frankfurt, one reviewer complimented the brilliance and agility of her voice, assertive even when singing softly? (2022-05-27)
... that Magna Lykseth appeared as Isolde (pictured) when Wagner's Tristan und Isolde was first performed at the Royal Swedish Opera in 1909? (2022-05-25)
... that Claudia Riner was falsely accused of distributing lesbian erotica in the Kentucky House of Representatives? (2022-05-25)
... that Luise Duttenhofer died in 1829 after more than a thousand papercuts? (2022-05-23)
... that Sofia Halechko's first language was Polish, but she fought in World War One to create a country for Ukrainian-speaking people? (2022-05-22)
... that when asked about the secret to her longevity, 91-year-old Shatzi Weisberger said she smokes marijuana every night? (2022-05-21)
... that at the age of 26, Lucy Moss became the youngest female director of a Broadway musical before directing a TikTok musical that raised $2 million? (2022-05-20)
... that ornithologist Elaina Marie Tuttle discovered that the white-throated sparrow has four sexes? (2022-05-19)
... that Angel Reese and her younger brother, Jhulian, both played college basketball for Maryland after competing at the same high school? (2022-05-18)
... that The Art of Cooking with Cannabis by Tracey Medeiros was praised by the Los Angeles Times for showcasing a wide range of recipes outside of the "tired pot-brownie cliché"? (2022-05-16)
... that Romy Golan's 2021 book Flashback, Eclipse is an exploration of Italian art of the 1960s that moved away from the art created under Italian fascism? (2022-05-15)
... that as a young girl, Countess Ladislaja Harnoncourt was thought to be uneducatable and was nicknamed the "wild Laja"? (2022-05-13)
... that Mallory McMorrow won a public contest to design the Mazda3 while she was a college student? (2022-05-12)
... that Vanita Jagdeo Borade has been called the "snake woman" for having rescued more than 50,000 snakes? (2023-05-11)
... that Vanita Jagdeo Borade has been called the "Snake Woman" for having rescued more than 50,000 snakes? (2022-05-11)
... that disability-rights activist Edith Prentiss objected to the title of a documentary about her, Edith Prentiss: Hell on Wheels, for being too mild? (2022-05-08)
... that Mexican sinologist Flora Botton was rescued by an American soldier when being transported on a train from Bergen-Belsen in 1945? (2022-05-01)
... that Hungarian historian Andrea Pető believes that "right to be forgotten" policies should not be applied to the Holocaust? (2022-05-01)
... that the French mezzo-soprano Germaine Bailac (pictured) played the title role in Bizet's Carmen at least 3,000 times? (2022-04-30)
... that Mimi Reinhardt typed Schindler's list? (2022-04-24)
... that the final silent film directed by Giulia Cassini Rizzotto was partly funded by the Vatican and featured Italian aristocrats? (2022-04-24)
... that during a German charity concert for Ukraine, Slovakian singer Judita Nagyová performed a solo in the finale of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony? (2022-04-23)
... that The West Wing's Amy Gardner is said to be the only character on the show with "a genuinely militant attitude towards equality of the genders"? (2022-04-23)
... that American soprano Emily Pogorelc went from winning the 2018 "Most Promising Talent" prize at Glyndebourne to appearing as Mozart's Cherubino at the Munich Opera Festival? (2022-04-22)
... that Ukrainian artist Kateryna Antonovych worked at Prague's Museum of Ukraine's Struggle for Independence before the US aircraft bombed it? (2022-04-21)
... that Monika Buczkowska, who made her stage debut as a student in Poznań as Mozart's Susanna, was a soloist in Beethoven's Ninth Symphony at a charity concert for Ukraine at the Alte Oper? (2022-04-20)
... that the mezzo-soprano of Beth Taylor was the only lower voice when she appeared as Dardano in Handel's Amadigi, portraying her male character with fine vocal lines and "remarkable coloraturas"? (2022-04-19)
... that Katharina Konradi, a soprano born in Kyrgyzstan, made a recording of lieder with pianist Gerold Huber including settings by Lori Laitman of children's poems written in Terezin? (2022-04-18)
... that Chow Leung started a language school for children in Chicago before writing Chinese Fables and Folk Stories (illustration pictured) with Mary Hayes Davis? (2022-04-17)
... that Ukrainian actress Oksana Shvets, who was killed in the 2022 invasion of Ukraine, starred in the 2013 joint Ukrainian–Russian television family saga House with Lilies alongside Russian actors? (2022-04-15)
... that Scottish nurse Euphemia Steele Innes (pictured) was decorated with the Royal Red Cross first class for services with the Territorial Force Nursing Service in World War I? (2022-04-15)
... that over the course of her career, vocal coach Barbara Maier Gustern taught Debbie Harry, Taylor Mac, Justin Vivian Bond, Diamanda Galás, and Kathleen Hanna? (2022-04-14)
... that Barrie R. Cassileth helped create one of the first palliative cancer care programs in the United States? (2022-04-13)
... that the Polish soprano Zofia Kilanowicz appeared as Roxana in Szymanowski's King Roger in Paris, and recorded Górecki's Symphony of Sorrowful Songs? (2022-04-12)
... that Carol Van Strum, an environmental activist who wrote the book A Bitter Fog, accumulated 20,000 documents across 40 years that revealed corporate and government cover-ups? (2022-04-11)
... that French designer Martine Bedin compared her Super Lamp design to "a small dog that I could carry with me"? (2022-04-10)
... that Lesia Vasylenko (pictured) founded a human-rights non-governmental organization to assist servicemen and veterans before becoming a People's Deputy of Ukraine? (2022-04-10)
... that Mily Treviño-Sauceda, the co-founder of the first national grassroots women's farmworker organization in the United States, the National Alliance of Farmworker Women, was a child farmworker in the 1960s? (2022-04-08)
... that when Heather Phillips made her European debut in Rossini's Bianca e Falliero at the Oper Frankfurt, reviewers agreed that her nuanced coloraturas served to portray Bianca's development? (2022-04-08)
... that Lebanese actress Takla Chamoun stoically refused to cancel a play showing after being informed that her mother had died? (2022-04-07)
... that Rashida Beal was named 2016 Big Ten Defender of the Year after the Minnesota Golden Gophers won that year's conference tournament? (2022-04-07)
... that postcards were made of Olena Stepaniv (pictured) during the First World War, and in 1991 Lviv named a street after her? (2022-04-07)
... that Kitty Shiva Rao was the head of a committee to find out what Indian women wanted from the new Constitution of India? (2022-04-07)
... that Barbara Shermund illustrated two early New Yorker covers (second shown) and, 25 years later, was one of the first women to join the National Cartoonists Society? (2022-04-05)
... that Ukrainian museum director Horpyna Vatchenko forced the Hermitage Museum to abide by its agreement and return the Kernosovskiy idol (pictured) after a loan? (2022-04-02)
... that after the Ukrainian soprano Olga Bezsmertna won the Neue Stimmen competition in 2011 (pictured), she was engaged at the Vienna State Opera? (2022-03-29)
... that Burundian judge Domitille Barancira upheld Pierre Nkurunziza's death penalty, then later administered his presidential oath? (2022-03-29)
... that The West Wing faced criticism for a scene in which Ainsley Hayes defends a sexist and objectifying remark made at her? (2022-03-29)
... that Eleonore Schönborn, who had to leave Czechoslovakia in 1945 with two young children, received an Austrian award in 2013 for cultural and social improvement? (2022-03-28)
... that Arti Rana was the president of the self-help group Tharu Hath KargaGharelu Udyog when it received assistance from the World Wide Fund for Nature to make its looms more efficient? (2022-03-27)
... that New Zealand editor and journalist Madeleine Chapman, known for fashion label exposés and snack food ranking lists, is a champion javelin thrower? (2022-03-26)
... that Rose Delaunay (pictured), a French operatic soprano who began her career at the Opéra-Comique in Paris, and her husband, an actor, celebrated their diamond wedding in 1937? (2022-03-25)
... that Gloria Rojas, one of the first Latina broadcast journalists in New York City, helped launch the career of Geraldo Rivera? (2022-03-25)
... that when the Ivankiv Historical and Local History Museum was burned during the recent Battle of Ivankiv, artworks by Hanna Veres and Maria Prymachenko were destroyed? (2022-03-23)
... that British alpine skier Shona Brownlee, who competed at the 2022 Winter Paralympics, plays the French horn and the piano in the Central Band of the Royal Air Force? (2022-03-21)
... that Jane Cakebread's 277 court appearances for drunkenness helped bring about the Inebriates Act of 1898? (2022-03-21)
... that museum director Alena Aladava (pictured) rebuilt the Belarusian national art collection in the aftermath of the Second World War? (2022-03-21)
... that when Lviv-born Maria Moscisca (pictured) performed the title role of Verdi's La traviata at the San Francisco Opera in 1913, a review described her as "the impersonation of grace and refinement"? (2022-03-19)
... that in 1958, Virginia Ali and her husband Ben Ali founded Ben's Chili Bowl, a landmark Washington, D.C. restaurant where Martin Luther King Jr., Jesse Jackson, and Stokely Carmichael would often eat? (2022-03-18)
... that on the 100th anniversary of International Women's Day, Peninah Musyimi, from the slums of Nairobi (pictured), was given the "I am Powerful" award? (2022-03-18)
... that Indian politician Pushpaben Mehta was the first speaker of the Saurashtra Legislative Assembly? (2022-03-16)
... that in 2022, Frida Westman was the first Swedish ski jumper to compete at an Olympic Games since 1994, when her father competed? (2022-03-16)
... that Australian writer Gertrude Hart (pictured) was a co-founder of the Old Derelicts' Club, which later became the Society of Australian Authors? (2022-03-15)
... that Verena Conzett (pictured) found commercial success when she offered serial novels together with accident insurance? (2022-03-14)
... that Anna Korsun, a composer who studied in Kyiv and Munich, and teaches in Amsterdam, was awarded a scholarship at the Villa Massimo in Rome in 2018? (2022-03-14)
... that Jennifer Bates led thousands of Amazon warehouse workers to petition a vote for a union in Bessemer, Alabama? (2022-03-13)
... that Jaz Brisack, leader of the movement to unionize Starbucks, was the first woman Rhodes Scholar at the University of Mississippi? (2022-03-12)
... that Helen Steven shared the Gandhi International Peace Award for her opposition to the nuclear submarine base in Scotland? (2022-03-12)
... that Tatiana Saunders is now goalkeeper for the equal pay team Lewes Football Club Women after playing for U.S., Icelandic and French teams? (2022-03-11)
... that Asma Al Thani (pictured), who directs the Qatar Olympic Committee's communications, has climbed the eighth-highest mountain and skied to the North Pole? (2022-03-11)
... that more young girls in Hamdallaye in Niger could go to school after a local councillor arranged to buy eight grinding machines? (2022-03-10)
... that operatic soprano Elena Tsallagova has been described as a natural actress who can make even looking around a corner interesting? (2022-03-09)
... that South African nurse Stella Madzimbamuto filed an appeal in 1968 with the Privy Council of the United Kingdom that resulted in the Rhodesian government being declared illegal? (2022-03-08)
... that British animal-welfare activist Shirley McGreal founded the International Primate Protection League, after seeing trafficked monkeys in cages at an airport in Thailand? (2022-03-08)
... that Matilda Allison, blinded aged seven, "devoted her time instructing the blind" throughout America, thanks to a "wonderful education"? (2022-03-08)
... that the popular artist's model Margaret Lemon tried to bite Anthony van Dyck's thumb off? (2022-03-08)
... that Kobe and Vanessa Bryant (pictured) were founding donors of the National Museum of African American History and Culture? (2022-03-03)
... that members of The Links, an elite organization of upper-class Black women, include Betty Shabazz, Marian Wright Edelman (pictured), and Kamala Harris? (2022-02-28)
... that Bianca Baptiste was Tottenham Hotspur's top goal scorer during their promotion—and then they dropped her from the team? (2022-02-27)
... that Jennifer Webster-Cyriaque (pictured) assisted in the founding of Malawi's first dental school in 2019? (2022-02-26)
... that ski jumper Joséphine Pagnier (pictured), who competed at the 2022 Winter Olympics, won two medals at the Winter Youth Olympics two years ago? (2022-02-24)
... that playwright Deborah Zoe Laufer is said to "deal with serious, existential questions in seriously hilarious ways"? (2022-02-24)
... that freestyle skier Kirsty Muir was the youngest Team GB competitor at the 2022 Winter Olympics? (2022-02-23)
... that Alexandra Tegleva, a nursemaid to Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia, helped uncover a woman who impersonated Anastasia after the royal family were executed? (2022-02-21)
... that when American-born skier Katie Vesterstein chose to compete for Estonia, she had only visited the country once, and did not speak the language? (2022-02-20)
... that pioneering Daily News camerawoman Evelyn Straus had her clothes custom-made to carry her film and flashbulbs? (2022-02-20)
... that Anita Kiki Gbeho (pictured) is still working for the United Nations in Somalia, even though her boss was lucky to escape assassination? (2022-02-19)
... that Finnish linguist Eeva Leinonen was one of four women to be inaugurated as heads of Irish universities in 2021, the others being Maggie Cusack, Linda Doyle and Kerstin Mey? (2022-02-14)
... that Professor of Engineering and the Arts Linda Doyle in 2021 became the first female provost (head) of Trinity College Dublin since its 1592 foundation by Elizabeth I? (2022-02-11)
... that the act of trying a burger at Slutty Vegan for the first time is known as being "sluttified"? (2022-02-10)
... that mining entrepreneur and former model Tigui Camara is the first woman in Guinea to own a mining company, which she partially runs as a social enterprise? (2022-02-09)
... that when she was around ten years old, Maud Holland was married to Hugh Courtenay, with the approval of Pope Urban V? (2022-02-09)
... that Bahraini businesswoman Yara Salman founded a beauty salon, a medical center, an entertainment complex, and a restaurant in the past decade? (2022-02-08)
... that during the Venezuelan general strike of 2002–2003, all but one of Venezuelan chocolatier María Fernanda Di Giacobbe's ten businesses went bankrupt? (2022-02-07)
... that when her local cafe was in lockdown, Kate Baer wrote her bestselling poems in her van in the cafe car park? (2022-02-05)
... that Mothica (pictured) credits TikTok for the success of her career as a musician? (2022-02-04)
... that Madame "Toto" Bannard Cogley not only co-founded Dublin's Gate Theatre, but also supplied most of the initial membership? (2022-02-01)
... that AI expert Tess Posner resigned her role as a CEO in order to concentrate on her music career? (2022-01-31)
... that Elena Guseva's training as a choral conductor helped her analyse the score when playing Polina in Prokofiev's The Gambler at the Vienna State Opera? (2022-01-30)
... that Smithsonian archivists are rediscovering the work of photography pioneer Louisa Bernie Gallaher (pictured) after they were misattributed to her boss? (2022-01-29)
... that Kate Foster is the British ambassador to Somalia, but there are no consular services at the embassy in Mogadishu? (2022-01-28)
... that beauty queen Veronica Volkersz (pictured) was the first woman to pilot an operational jet fighter? (2022-01-27)
... that Lewis Hamilton's physiotherapist, Angela Cullen (pictured), once cycled from Tierra del Fuego, Argentina, to northern Colombia? (2022-01-25)
... that Preet Chandi, the first known woman of colour to walk solo to the South Pole, contacted friends to be bridesmaids during her expedition? (2022-01-24)
... that in her 2021 composition This too shall pass with string orchestra, Raminta Šerkšnytė used a vibraphone for the flow of time, a violin for the transience of humans, and a "heavenly" cello? (2022-01-23)
... that between 1878 and 1898, American inventor Maria E. Beasley patented a footwarmer, an improved life raft, several barrel-making machines and an anti-derailment device for trains? (2022-01-23)
... that The Outdoor Circle opposed a 2009 visit to Hawaii by the Wienermobile, believing its presence in the state was illegal? (2022-01-22)
... that when George Ross went bankrupt in 1867, his wife Sibella Ross started a school to sustain their large family? (2022-01-22)
... that as well as having a film career spanning 60 years, Kumeko Urabe (pictured) became the oldest debut singer in 1984 with her single Octopus Song? (2022-01-22)
... that Crackhead Barney picked a dead rat up off the street before confronting the National Guard at the inauguration of Joe Biden? (2022-01-22)
... that when Christy Schwundeck was shot in a job centre in Germany, she had nine cents in her wallet? (2022-01-21)
... that U.S. Virgin Islands suffragist Ella Gifft smuggled rum during Prohibition by hiding it in her underwear? (2022-01-21)
... that Paraguayan diplomat Elisa Ruiz Díaz (pictured) helped develop her country's constitution? (2022-01-21)
... that Elfrida von Nardroff won $220,500 ($2.1 million today) on the game show Twenty-One in 1958, the highest winnings of any contestant? (2022-01-20)
... that Chappell Roan was signed to Atlantic Records at 17 years old? (2022-01-20)
... that in 1976, Karen Ferguson founded the Pension Rights Center, a nonprofit pensioner advocacy organization, with encouragement and monetary support from Ralph Nader? (2022-01-19)
... that Rita Humphries-Lewin, a former chair of the Jamaica Stock Exchange, entered the industry as a secretary? (2022-01-18)
... that dyeing the threads for a weaving by Mary Zicafoose (pictured) may involve wrapping, tying, and untying as many as 80,000 ikat ties? (2022-01-18)
... that Beverly Russell's 1992 book Women of Design: Contemporary American Interiors was the first survey of female interior designers? (2022-01-18)
... that Anne Emerman refused to allow Mother Teresa and the Missionaries of Charity to convert a building in the Bronx into a homeless shelter without installing an elevator? (2022-01-16)
... that the novel Mama Dear by Christine Haidegger (pictured) details her childhood in post–World War II Austria? (2022-01-15)
... that Alison H. Clarkson, the majority leader of the Vermont Senate, worked as a theatrical producer and on New York Theatre Workshop's board? (2022-01-15)
... that Alisha Kramer worked to fight HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and inequity in women's health in Africa and Europe as a program coordinator for the Center for Strategic and International Studies? (2022-01-14)
... that Margaret A. Mahoney, who in 1949 became the majority leader of the Ohio Senate, is still the only woman to hold the top leadership role? (2022-01-13)
... that American medical pioneer Isabella Coler Herb designed the Herb–Mueller apparatus to help doctors and dentists administer ether to patients? (2022-01-13)
... that when elected as mayor, Venezuelan politician Gloria Lizárraga de Capriles did not have her own office and worked from a shopping mall? (2022-01-13)
... that American nurse Florence Church Bullard (pictured) gave her French Croix de Guerre medal with a bronze star to the Sisters of Saint Marys, believing that her heroic deeds were a reflection of their teachings? (2022-01-13)
... that Papuan anthropologist Marlina Flassy is the first woman to be appointed a dean at Cenderawasih University? (2022-01-09)
... that Titane, the first feature film of French actress Agathe Rousselle, won the Palme d'Or at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival? (2022-01-09)
... that a recent New York Times article recommended four educational charities: the Wikimedia Foundation, Khan Academy, Children International and Catherine Omanyo's school? (2022-01-08)
... that when Antonia Urrejola was president of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, her vice presidents were women as well? (2022-01-07)
... that the 2021 Seattle City Council 3rd district recall election was the first recall held in the city since 1975? (2022-01-06)
... that Claudia Watkins, the only "lady judge" in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, in 1969, thought it was "no big deal"? (2022-01-04)
... that artist Heather Doram won Antigua and Barbuda's national competition to design a new national costume? (2022-01-03)
... that WAAF Corporal Elspeth Henderson remained at her post despite a direct hit by a Luftwaffe bomb? (2022-01-03)
... that twenty-a-day cigarette smoker Trudi Thomson suffered from bulimia and rheumatoid arthritis before she became a successful runner? (2022-01-01)
... that Maine state legislator Tracy Quint introduced a bill that would have banned all COVID-19 vaccination mandates in Maine until 2024? (2021-12-27)
... that mountaineer Edmund Hillary asked Canadian doctor Joan Ford to take her "Adidas runners, a stethoscope and an umbrella" and get to the Himalayas? (2021-12-26)
... that English women's footballer Shameeka Fishley scored a hat-trick in her newly-established Turkish team's first match? (2021-12-23)
... that Kirsten Warner, whose father was a Holocaust survivor, wrote a novel from the perspective of the child of a Holocaust survivor? (2021-12-21)
... that Hyun Ji Shin was photographed by Karl Lagerfeld in his Chanel campaign before his death? (2021-12-20)
... that English-born actress Frances Brett Hodgkinson (pictured) became the highest-paid theater actress in the United States in 1800? (2021-12-18)
... that Nandivada Rathnasree, who ran Delhi's planetarium, proposed that astronomers could be taught using India's stone-built observatories? (2021-12-17)
... that the documentary film Boycott includes the stories of three Americans who sued their state governments after being affected by anti-BDS laws? (2021-12-17)
... that Mauatua married the Bounty mutineer Fletcher Christian and ensured women on Pitcairn were given the vote? (2021-12-15)
... that Mary Earle (pictured) was born near Ben Nevis, and although she became a professor of food technology in New Zealand, she never forgot her Scottish roots? (2021-12-15)
... that Tina Stege (pictured), who led the High Ambition Coalition at COP26, is from a country that may cease to exist with projected rises in sea level? (2021-12-13)
... that New Zealand health executive Sharon Shea points to distrust in authority caused by "post-colonisation trauma" for low COVID-19 vaccination rates of Māori? (2021-12-12)
... that zoologist Ruth Crosby Noble's 1945 book on animal behavior was said to have the "rare quality of combining entertainment with sound scientific value"? (2021-12-11)
... that children's author Kate DiCamillo received 473 rejection letters before her first novel was accepted for publication? (2021-12-09)
... that before starring in the Pedro Almodóvar film Parallel Mothers, Milena Smit worked as a model, waitress, shop assistant, babysitter, subway information assistant, and hotel receptionist? (2021-12-08)
... that when Margaret de Longvillers married into the House of Neville, her wealth consolidated its position in English society? (2021-12-08)
... that the Panacea Society believed in God the Father, God the Mother, Jesus the Son, and Octavia? (2021-12-08)
... that according to legend, Edigna fled an arranged marriage in 1074, leaving her royal life behind to live as a hermit in a hollowed-out tree in Fürstenfeldbruck? (2021-12-08)
... that Norma Kuhling's character in Fourteen was described by a film critic as "a Greta Gerwig spin on the Manic Pixie Dream Girl"? (2021-12-07)
... that Zeliha Ağrıs started performing taekwondo at age ten and became a world champion when she was 19? (2021-12-06)
... that Pitcairn Islander Teraura (pictured) was one of "the most travelled Polynesian women" of her day? (2021-12-06)
... that Inger K. Frith, the first woman president of a major international sporting federation, played a key role in returning archery to the Olympics? (2021-12-05)
... that Italian actress Linda Albertini used her abilities as a former circus acrobat in silent films? (2021-12-04)
... that economist Nisvan Erkal's research showed that China's one-child policy created children who lacked qualities important for social and economic success? (2021-12-03)
... that Marie Litta (pictured) started her own opera company in her early 20s, just a few years before her death in 1883? (2021-11-30)
... that not so much as a "hell" or "damn" was permitted at G. D. Sweet Famous Players' "Sunday school" productions? (2021-11-30)
... that in 2009, Doreen Nabwire (pictured) became the first Kenyan woman to play professional football in Europe? (2021-11-26)
... that Meadow Walker was walked down the aisle by Vin Diesel? (2021-11-25)
... that Valerie Broussard's video for "Iris" pays homage to the Goo Goo Dolls' original? (2021-11-24)
... that Aline Rocha, the first Brazilian woman to compete at the Winter Paralympic Games, also came third in the women's wheelchair race at the 2021 Berlin Marathon? (2021-11-24)
... that fashion model Rebecca Leigh Longendyke was inspired by Grey's Anatomy to get a degree in biomedical engineering? (2021-11-21)
... that Miriam Soljak, after fighting to recover her New Zealand nationality for nearly three decades, was told that the government considered she had never lost it? (2021-11-21)
... that Nancy Cappello was described as the "founder of the breast density education movement" for her campaign to inform women about the issue of mammograms failing to detect breast cancer? (2021-11-20)
... that Russel and Mary Wright's American design "manifesto" Guide to Easier Living proposed that life was "engineering problems with scientific solutions"? (2021-11-20)
... that Brazilian wheelchair racer Vanessa Cristina de Souza won a race despite completing the last two kilometres (1.2 mi) with a flat tyre? (2021-11-19)
... that about 700 airmen – and Ida Veldhuyzen van Zanten (pictured) – received the Dutch Airman's Cross? (2021-11-19)
... that Rose Lee Maphis and her husband Joe Maphis, known as Mr. and Mrs. Country Music, helped develop the Bakersfield sound? (2021-11-18)
... that Miray Cin played for the Germany women's national U15, U16 and U17 football teams before she became a member of the Turkey women's national football team? (2021-11-18)
... that the "Angel of the dump", Jane Walker, helps people in Manila create handbags (pictured) from reused ring-pulls? (2021-11-18)
... that Elizabeth Reiter portrayed the double role of Renee, an "icy wife"; and Alice, an "insatiable lover"; in the German premiere of Olga Neuwirth's opera Lost Highway? (2021-11-18)
... that upon hearing about a 600-worker walkout reportedly prompted by difficulties she caused, Dee Duponte responded "fiddlesticks"? (2021-11-18)
... that Ally Condie's dystopian Matched trilogy was inspired by a high school prom? (2021-11-17)
... that Scottish novelist Isla Dewar said "if ... a thing is not worth doing then it's worth doing fabulously, amazingly, with grace, style and panache"? (2021-11-17)
... that in Botswana, writer Unity Dow (pictured) took legal actions as a plaintiff, legal counsellor, and judge to challenge gender discrimination and protect indigenous rights, before becoming a legislator? (2021-11-15)
... that Myrtle Edwards's family objected to Seattle's Gas Works Park being named after her? (2021-11-15)
... that Sherita Hill Golden demonstrated that diabetics were more likely to develop depression and that those with depression were more likely to become diabetic? (2021-11-14)
... that even though Australian citizens are no longer British subjects, they can still vote in elections and stand for parliament in the United Kingdom? (2021-11-13)
... that Marguerite Dunlap sang in the first radio broadcast of WEAF in New York? (2021-11-12)
... that Lesley Akyaa Opoku Ware (pictured), daughter of Asante ruler Opoku Ware II, simultaneously served as Ghana's ambassador to six countries? (2021-11-10)
... that the English botanists Jane Ingham and Joseph Hubert Priestley were the first to separate cell walls from meristematic tissues in broad beans? (2021-11-10)
... that in October 2021, American wheelchair racer Yen Hoang came in the top three in marathons on consecutive days? (2021-11-08)
... that after men took all the 2021 Nobel Prizes for science, one of the selectors, Eva Olsson (pictured), said "we want to have more women nominated"? (2021-11-08)
... that Colombian-born Susan Bernal is developing new cements that can reduce the substantial CO₂ emissions currently caused by concrete? (2021-11-06)
... that Cher Scarlett is one of the leaders of #AppleToo, a workers' rights movement at Apple Inc.? (2021-11-06)
... that Małgorzata Kalinowska-Iszkowska was awarded a Polish Gold Cross of Merit for her work in information technology? (2021-11-05)
... that landscape architect Harriet Pattison collaborated with her lover Louis Kahn on the design of Four Freedoms Park and the grounds of the Kimbell Art Museum? (2021-11-05)
... that Marie Surcouf was the president of Stella, a club for French women aeronauts? (2021-11-04)
... that Lisa Federle's mobile surgery service (pictured) for refugees was adapted to be a mobile test station during the COVID-19 pandemic? (2021-11-01)
... that a group of feminists placed the Women Who Fight anti-monument (pictured) on a pedestal on which a statue of Christopher Columbus formerly stood? (2021-10-31)
... that Janet Wilmshurst paints pictures of the past with poop? (2021-10-30)
... that during her early career, ballerina Indiana Woodward danced the lead role in La Sylphide, replacing an injured dancer? (2021-10-30)
... that Arkansas legislator Denise Jones Ennett took part in a Black Lives Matter protest in front of the Arkansas State Capitol? (2021-10-29)
... that when Jean Kekedo was made a Dame of the Order of the British Empire in 2020 she became the third woman in her family to receive this honour, after her mother Dame Mary Kekedo and her sister Dame Rose Kekedo? (2021-10-28)
... that Sharri MacDonald was removed from the Old Orchard Beach City Council after a controversial 4–3 vote put the entire council up for recall? (2021-10-24)
... that English netball player Sophie Drakeford-Lewis was once the highest ranked British youth tennis player? (2021-10-23)
... that in September 2021, the England national netball team won a series in New Zealand for the first time? (2021-10-22)
... that Laura Jean McKay's 2020 novel about a fictional global pandemic was first written in 2013? (2021-10-16)
... that Anne Wyllie (pictured), also known as the "Spit Queen", now has a Wikipedia biography because a healthcare executive asked who she was? (2021-10-12)
... that the country song "Beer Beer, Truck Truck" was based on a viral TikTok video by Erynn Chambers intended to satirize country music? (2021-10-23)
... that a viral TikTok video posted by Erynn Chambers intended to satirize country music led to the creation of "Beer Beer, Truck Truck"? (2021-10-09)
... that in 1786, antiquarian Catherine Downes was one of the first women to excavate a Roman villa? (2021-10-06)
... that the 1918 book Iowa Authors and Their Works was an attempt to document all Iowa authors and their writing starting from 1880? (2021-10-04)
... that pacifist Theodora Wilson Wilson's science fiction book The Last Weapon was banned by the British Government in 1917? (2021-10-03)
... that Craft Horizons both documented and shaped the changing history of the American craft movement? (2021-10-01)
... that Monika Salzer, a systematic psychotherapist and Protestant pastor, was a columnist for the Kronen Zeitung and appeared on television in Dancing Stars? (2021-09-27)
... that Lori Gramlich, a survivor of sexual abuse in her childhood, introduced legislation that made it easier for sexual abuse survivors in Maine to file civil lawsuits against their abusers? (2021-09-27)
... that Lydia Wevers was the first scholar to write about the history of short stories in New Zealand? (2021-09-26)
... that Tlalli will replace a monument to Christopher Columbus, not to "erase history", but to "deliver social justice"? (2021-09-25)
... that playwright Carol K. Mack wrote the thriller novel The Chameleon Variant in 1980 with Rutgers University biologist David Ehrenfeld? (2021-09-25)
... that the small island of Aruba was at the Paralympics because Shardea Arias de la Cru thought they should be? (2021-09-25)
... that Anna Apostolaki, the first Greek woman to work as a professional archaeologist, was also a feminist educator who promoted women's traditional crafts? (2021-09-25)
... that Lulwah Al-Qatami was the first woman from Kuwait to study at a university abroad? (2021-09-23)
... that Jacquelyn Reingold knew nothing about string theory until she wrote a play about it? (2021-09-23)
... that the Great Dover Street woman might be the skeleton of a female gladiator? (2021-09-22)
... that Noliwe Rooks coined the term "segrenomics" to describe a system of separate, segregated, and unequal education created by the privatization and deregulation of American public education? (2021-09-21)
... that despite not initially being selected for the 2020 Summer Paralympics, British equestrian Georgia Wilson won two bronze medals at the Games? (2021-09-21)
... that photographers in Saint Paul, Minnesota, sold thousands of cartes-de-visite of "Old Betz" (pictured), a Dakota woman who they said was 120 years old? (2021-09-21)
... that Dominican senator Anette Sanford donated half her salary to the Dominica Nurses Association during the COVID-19 pandemic? (2021-09-20)
... that Guyana MP Yvonne Fredericks-Pearson competed in archery at the Indigenous Heritage Games 2019? (2021-09-19)
... that after the Paralympics, Gambian athlete Isatou Nyang (pictured) continued to train at night, and during the day she would beg to support herself? (2021-09-19)
... that Elvira Bierbach has run an alternative medicine school for heilpraktiker in Bielefeld since 1992? (2021-09-19)
... that Devon Powers argues in Writing the Record that 1960s counter-culture music journalists Richard Goldstein and Robert Christgau acted as public intellectuals despite working outside of academia? (2021-09-19)
... that Sally Fox found a picture of a French sculptor and decided to create a picture collection (example pictured) of thousands of other women? (2021-09-18)
... that more than fifty years after Hilde Scheppan appeared in Wagner's Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg at the 1943 Bayreuth Festival, reviewer Alan Blyth called her "a dream of an Eva"? (2021-09-18)
... that Dawn Hastings-Williams was the first indigenous Minister of State of Guyana? (2021-09-18)
... that social psychologist Lotte Bailyn, the first woman faculty member at the MIT Sloan School of Management, is an expert in work and family dynamics? (2021-09-17)
... that New Zealand choreographer and dancer Louise Potiki Bryant was coated in clay by sculptor Paerau Corneal in their interdisciplinary work Kiri? (2021-09-13)
... that Suzanna Hext chose to compete in swimming rather than equestrian at the delayed 2020 Summer Paralympics? (2021-09-12)
... that American journalist and activist Clara Leiser traveled to Nazi Germany frequently, and documented the plight of families of political prisoners? (2021-09-11)
... that women originally had the right to vote in New Jersey thanks to its constitution until an 1807 act removed that right? (2021-09-10)
... that Tanz im August, an annual international festival of contemporary dance in Berlin, was founded by Nele Hertling (pictured) in 1988? (2021-09-09)
... that the protest initiative Omas gegen Rechts (Grannies against the Right) was awarded a prize for civil courage by the Central Council of Jews in Germany? (2021-09-07)
... that Miguelina Acosta Cárdenas (pictured) played a key role in the fledgling women's movement in Peru in the early 20th century? (2021-09-05)
... that Columbia Eneutseak (pictured), named for the World's Columbian Exposition where she was born into one of the exhibits, starred in her film The Way of the Eskimo? (2021-09-03)
... that Fatykha Aitova agreed to marry her husband on the condition that he help her construct a school? (2021-09-02)
... that the Romanian soprano Iulia Maria Dan was Hamlet's Ophelia in the Bregenz Festival's revival of Franco Faccio's revived opera Amleto? (2021-09-02, 2022-09-02)
... that Sjerstin Vermeulen has won Paralympic medals in swimming and equestrian? (2021-09-01)
... that New Zealand opera singer Helen Medlyn's first performing role was as one of the Three Kings? (2021-09-01)
... that Evelyn van Leeuwen won a wheelchair basketball silver medal at the 1996 Paralympics and twenty years later she won a bronze at the 2016 Games? (2021-09-01)
... that sensors suggest that Lorraine Lambert's new bra has improved her chances of winning a Paralympic medal for shooting? (2021-08-31)
... that Julie Schmit-Albin was awarded the title of Admiral in the Great Navy of the State of Nebraska for her work as a pro-life activist? (2021-08-31)
... that seventeen-year-old Julie Hayden (pictured) was killed by members of the White Man's League days after starting a position teaching Black children, and became "the poster child of southern violence"? (2021-08-31)
... that poet Trina de Moya was the first Dominican presidential wife to be called first lady? (2021-08-30)
... that when Paralympian Issy Bailey was in Stoke Mandeville Hospital, she had so many injuries that shooting seemed to be the best option? (2021-08-30)
... that Alia Issa, the first woman competitor to enter during the 2020 Paralympics opening ceremony, is the first female refugee to compete at any Paralympic Games? (2021-08-29)
... that Rosa Egipcíaca was the first black woman in Brazil to write a book? (2021-08-28)
... that Natalie Simanowski began her "second life" as a Paralympian cyclist after being attacked by someone described as a "psychopath"? (2021-08-28)
... that Linda Watson, a dramatic soprano born in San Francisco who made a career in Europe, is proud of a Grammy nomination for Wagner's Ring cycle with her as Brünnhilde? (2021-08-28)
... that the Russian wheelchair fencer Ksenia Ovsyannikova toured the United States on a "mission for inclusion" in 2017? (2021-08-28)
... that Herma Albertson Baggley (pictured) was the first woman to be on staff full-time as a naturalist with the United States National Park Service at Yellowstone National Park? (2021-08-26)
... that the first flag carried in the 2020 Paralympics opening ceremony will be that of the International Paralympic Committee (pictured), with Ileana Rodriguez as the flag-bearer? (2021-08-24)
... that Paralympian Gemma Collis-McCann, who sits on wheelchair fencing's new Gender Equity Commission, has been chosen to join three men as the UK's wheelchair fencing team in Tokyo? (2021-08-24)
... that Australian soprano Ada Baker toured India and China before becoming a singing teacher in Perth in 1889? (2021-08-24)
... that Aisha de Sequeira led Morgan Stanley's mergers and acquisitions in India when it was the top bank by the value of its deals in 2012? (2021-08-23)
... that Miao Poya successfully campaigned to change her high school's uniform policy before becoming one of the first Taipei city councillors to be openly lesbian? (2021-08-22)
... that New Zealand writer Jessie Weston wrote for William Ernest Henley's magazine for 18 months without him knowing she was a woman? (2021-08-22)
... that Giedrė Šlekytė conducted a version of Mozart's Die Zauberflöte for children at the 2018 Salzburg Festival, and Poulenc's Dialogues des Carmélites at the Oper Frankfurt in 2021? (2021-08-21)
... that Louise Heims Beck co-founded the American Theatre Wing and was responsible for overseeing the organization of the 1st Tony Awards? (2021-08-20)
... that American physician and marathon runner Joan Ullyot was one of the key figures in successfully lobbying for a women’s marathon in the Olympic Games? (2021-08-20)
... that Yulimar Rojas is good at jumping, but her sister Yerilda Zapata is good at throwing? (2021-08-19)
... that New Zealand author Patricia Grace did not include a glossary for Māori terms in her book Potiki because she "didn't want the Māori language to be treated as a foreign language in its own country"? (2021-08-17)
... that mezzo-soprano Margarita Gritskova was José Carreras's partner for his farewell concert in Carnegie Hall? (2021-08-17)
... that former detective inspector Paula Craig (pictured) is set to take part in a cross-Channel swim today? (2021-08-16)
... that Narciso Rodriguez for Her perfume was inspired by a bottle of Egyptian musk oil Narciso Rodriguez was given in high school? (2021-08-15)
... that composer Ida Carroll played a central role in the merger of the Northern School of Music and the Royal Manchester College of Music to found the Royal Northern College of Music in 1973? (2021-08-14)
... that Birgitta Odén was the first female history professor in Sweden? (2021-08-14)
... that while convicted fraudster Anna Sorokin was in jail, one of her visitors was Julia Garner, who will play Sorokin in the Netflix miniseries about her? (2021-08-13)
... that Serbian landowner Marija Trandafil spent a single day hungry, but she remembered the experience and became a major philanthropist in Novi Sad? (2021-08-12)
... that Lisa Warrington was responsible for painting the doors of Allen Hall Theatre red? (2021-08-11)
... that Tatjana Gamerith and her husband, married for 60 years despite an age difference of 20 years, were awarded a prize for their work to combine art and nature? (2021-08-08)
... that psychologist Janis Sanchez-Hucles was only the second person of color to earn a PhD in psychology from the University of North Carolina? (2021-08-08)
... that Blanche Zacharie de Baralt was the University of Havana's first woman philosophy graduate and the first person to translate Tagore's poems into Spanish? (2021-08-08)
... that the heavy metal musician Leah has sometimes been called "the metal Enya"? (2021-08-07)
... that in Inferno, an opera by Lucia Ronchetti premiered in 2021 at the Oper Frankfurt, the main character Dante has a speaking voice and an inner voice of four male singers? (2021-08-07)
... that British modern pentathlete Jo Muir qualified for the 2020 Summer Olympics despite missing the last qualification event due to COVID-19–related travel restrictions? (2021-08-05)
... that Danish dairy farmer Hanne Nielsen created a Tilsit cheese for King Christian IX of Denmark? (2021-08-05)
... that German runner Alica Schmidt (pictured), who is running in the Women's 4 × 400 metres relay at the 2020 Summer Olympics, has won multiple European junior relay medals? (This was an error: she had at an earlier stage been selected, but did not in fact participate) (2021-08-05)
... that Eliza Kennedy Smith's investigations of municipal corruption in Pittsburgh led to the mayor's arrest and imprisonment? (2021-08-04)
... that Marthe Yankurije, who dropped out of school during her fourth year of secondary school, will compete at the 2020 Summer Olympics? (2021-08-02)
... that Hayat Bakshi Begum ruled the Golconda Sultanate as regent for her son Abdullah Qutb Shah? (2021-08-02)
... that CEO Marla Messing submitted the business plan for the 1999 FIFA Women's World Cup two days before the birth of her first child? (2021-08-01)
... that infectious diseases specialist Jameela Al Salman has supported the development of medical robots and called their use in Bahrain a "pioneering experiment"? (2021-08-01)
... that Lili Marberg, an actress at the Burgtheater in Vienna from 1911 to 1950, was painted performing Wilde's Salome in Munich (painting pictured)? (2021-07-31)
... that during the War of the Lombards, fighting was interrupted so that the corpse of the besieged Queen Alice could be handed over to her husband, who had never seen her alive? (2021-07-31)
... that Aya Mpali, a flagbearer for Gabon at the 2020 Summer Olympics, was motivated to take up swimming competitively after her parents drowned? (2021-07-30)
... that Olympic Turkish volleyballer Tuğba Şenoğlu (pictured) was once named "Best Outside Spiker"? (2021-07-29)
... that Jo Beall, a British scholar of development economics, was once imprisoned for anti-apartheid activism? (2021-07-29)
... that Ina Caro, the wife of The Power Broker and The Years of Lyndon Johnson author Robert Caro, is the sole research assistant for his books? (2021-07-28)
... that Gun Bergman produced the Swedish translation of Nobel laureate Ivo Andrić's best-known work, The Bridge on the Drina? (2021-07-28)
... that Turkish champion Esra Yıldız, who was named the "Most Hyped Boxer", has been selected to represent Turkey at the 2020 Summer Olympics? (2021-07-27)
... that operatic soprano Natalia Shpiller was beloved by Joseph Stalin, and he frequently had her perform at the Moscow Kremlin to impress visiting dignitaries? (2021-07-26)
... that Drahşan Arda is the world's first female association football referee confirmed by FIFA? (2021-07-26)
... that Nele Hertling, working for the Academy of Arts, Berlin, brought innovative culture to the city including the Tanz im August festival? (2021-07-25)
... that the first Olympic volleyball match in more than 16 years for Kenya's Malkia Strikers is being played today in Tokyo against Japan? (2021-07-25)
... that ballerina Julie Diana began writing for dance publications when she was pregnant? (2021-07-25)
... that shooter Tehani Egodawela was the third person selected from Sri Lanka to compete in the 2020 Summer Olympics? (2021-07-24)
... that at the 2016 Summer Olympics, French sailor Hélène Defrance won a medal by a single point? (2021-07-24)
... that Marita Camacho Quirós, who was First Lady of Costa Rica (1962–1966), is the oldest former first lady in the world and a supercentenarian? (2021-07-23)
... that in 2021, Lisa Barbelin won her European Archery Championships event, and briefly became the world's number one ranked player? (2021-07-23)
... that when Ingrid Haubold recorded the role of Senta in Wagner's Der fliegende Holländer, reviewer Alan Blyth found "a certain raw edge" of her soprano voice apt for the role? (2021-07-23)
... that award winner Lillian Comas-Díaz became interested in psychology after consoling classmates recovering from a destructive hurricane? (2021-07-22)
... that Italian singer Lia Origoni said she refused to be Joseph Goebbels's dinner guest, so he left her chair empty? (2021-07-22)
... that, after being elected as the first transgender city councilor of Belo Horizonte, Duda Salabert was fired from her job as a teacher when the school where she worked received a threatening email? (2021-07-22)
... that nurse and Jordanian senator Sawsan Al Majali followed in the footsteps of both her mother (who was a nurse) and her father (who was prime minister of Jordan)? (2021-07-21)
... that barrister and arbitrator Mahnaz Malik worked with the Law Society of England and Wales to set up a programme to assist imprisoned children in Pakistan? (2021-07-21)
... that Lindy Cameron, who leads the UK's National Cyber Security Centre, says that ransomware is the major cyber threat? (2021-07-21)
... that when Cordula Wöhler was expelled from a Lutheran pastor's household for converting to Catholicism, she wrote a poem that became one of the most popular hymns to Mary in German? (2021-07-21)
... that the Women's National Basketball Players Association was the first trade union for professional women athletes? (2021-07-20)
... that Chilean psychologist Neva Milicic Müller wrote a book about parent–child separation that can help children and caregivers during COVID-19 lockdowns? (2021-07-20)
... that Rani Kumudini Devi was the first woman to serve as Mayor of Hyderabad? (2021-07-19)
... that Hope Muir was hired as the artistic director of the National Ballet of Canada without any in-person interviews? (2021-07-19)
... that Ebba Atterbom was the first person to translate the work of Irish novelist James Joyce into Swedish? (2021-07-18)
... that Annie Kanahele opposed the addition of diacritics to a reprint of the Bible in Hawaiian, arguing that the original exemplified the written Hawaiian language at the time of translation? (2021-07-18)
... that Kate Baker arranged to republish the Australian novel Such Is Life by Joseph Furphy after locating half of the original manuscript under some lumber in the offices of The Bulletin? (2021-07-17)
... that Lebanese academic Zahia Kaddoura was the first woman to be appointed a dean at the Lebanese University? (2021-07-16)
... that Theodolinda Hahnsson (pictured) is the first known Finnish-language female author? (2021-07-16)
... that South African theologian Sarojini Nadar examined the Book of Esther as a "text of terror" in normalizing rape culture? (2021-07-16)
... that Neha Narkhede, co-creator of the open source software Apache Kafka, also helped found Confluent, a company valued at $4.5 billion? (2021-07-16)
... that when María Elena Medina-Mora Icaza was appointed to lead the psychology department at the National Autonomous University of Mexico, she proposed a "zero tolerance" policy for gender violence? (2021-07-15)
... that Swedish actress Viran Rydkvist was one of the first women to run a theatre in Sweden? (2021-07-14)
... that Nilima Arun Kshirsagar developed and patented liposomal amphotericin B, which was used to treat "black fungus" during the COVID-19 pandemic in India? (2021-07-14)
... that Swedish painter, ceramist, designer, and writer Tyra Lundgren was one of the most versatile artists of the 20th century? (2021-07-13)
... that college basketball player Haley Cavinder and her twin sister, Hanna, signed a major endorsement deal within minutes of it being allowed? (2021-07-13)
... that Maria Simon and her husband met through a Jewish youth group in Austria but did not marry until ten years later after reconnecting while living as exiles in England? (2021-07-12)
... that Christa Ludwig, known for fiction for young horse-lovers, received a prize after her novel about Else Lasker-Schüler's late years in Jerusalem was published? (2021-07-12)
... that Serbian actress Branka Veselinović (pictured), whose career started in 1938, still performs aged 102? (2021-07-12)
... that German art historian Birgit Dahlenburg was instrumental in the recognition of the 16th-century Croy Tapestry as a cultural asset of national value? (2021-07-12)
... that Marja Kubašec was both the first Sorbian woman to receive a formal teacher training and the first woman to write a novel in Upper Sorbian? (2021-07-11)
... that June Fernández wrote "I Wanted Sex But Not Like That"? (2021-07-11)
... that Ellora Derenoncourt demonstrated that the expansion of minimum wage in 1967 accounted for 20 percent of the reduction in racial income gaps in the United States during the civil rights era? (2021-07-11)
... that Abeer Odeh was the first woman to serve as Minister of National Economy in Palestine? (2021-07-11)
... that ballerina Tina Pereira won a competition even though she was chosen to replace an indisposed dancer, and her partner got seriously injured mid-performance? (2021-07-10)
... that Patric and Rosalie Carey built New Zealand's first theatre for professional repertory on the back of their house? (2021-07-10)
... that Grenadian anatomic pathologist Kathleen Coard is the first female professor of pathology in the Caribbean? (2021-07-10)
... that Swedish writer Hedda Anderson began her literary career at the age of 58, following her husband's death in 1888? (2021-07-10)
... that after her election as Florida's agriculture commissioner, Nikki Fried was sworn into office using the first Hebrew Bible published in the United States? (2021-07-09)
... that, after her death, a contemporary of Frankish queen Austregilde both called her "the light of her homeland, the world, and the court" and compared her to Herod? (2021-07-09)
... that ballerina Pippa Moore's last role was as Princess Beatrice, Queen Victoria's youngest daughter? (2021-07-08)
... that Pamela Trotman Reid, the first Black president of University of Saint Joseph, developed the GO-GIRL program? (2021-07-08)
... that during the 1940s, Sigge Stark became Sweden's most published, most read, as well as most criticised author? (2021-07-07)
... that before she entered the U.S. Army in 1942, Jane Douglass White, a songwriter for soldier's shows, had already composed the tune which would become the official "Song of the Women's Army Corps"? (2021-07-07)
... that Jane Margyl (pictured) began her stage career as a mime at the Folies Bergère, and became a leading singer of the Paris Opera? (2021-07-06)
... that Belgian international association footballer Anaëlle Wiard, who started playing beach soccer in 2020, was the top scorer in a competition that year? (2021-07-06)
... that the Latin American travesti gender identity has been considered to be a third gender, akin to the hijras of India and the muxe of Mexico? (2021-07-05)
... that Linnéstaty, a sculpture created by Swedish sculptor Gerda Sprinchorn, was raised as a public monument 40 years after its completion? (2021-07-05)
... that the first Black woman to receive tenure in Kent State University's College of Arts & Sciences, Angela Neal-Barnett, emphasizes social support between Black women as "an indigenous form of healing"? (2021-07-05)
... that María Teresa Sesé wrote 500 romance novels in her native Spanish, then wrote several books in Basque after studying the language for two years? (2021-07-04)
... that judoka Loretta Doyle found out that she was pregnant during pre–Olympic selection medical checks? (2021-06-30)
... that Kata Wéber moved to Berlin to write the play that would become Pieces of a Woman to avoid her husband, who had encouraged her to write it after finding her personal notes? (2021-06-30)
... that Nell Walden was the first abstract artist in Swedish history? (2021-06-29)
... that Elena Urrutia helped launch the Mexican feminist magazine Fem? (2021-06-28)
... that the Suffrage Torch was a symbol of illumination during the Suffragist campaigns in the states of New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania in the summer of 1915 and the idea of Harriot Stanton Blatch? (2021-06-27)
... that at the suggestion of writer and translator Cecilia Bååth-Holmberg, Mother's Day was celebrated for the first time in Sweden in 1919? (2021-06-27)
... that Margot Heumann is the first woman known to have survived the Nazi concentration camps despite being both Jewish and queer? (2021-06-26)
... that Rosa Ponselle blamed Metropolitan Opera star Giovanni Martinelli's poor singing on his love affair with French soprano and actress Colette D'Arville? (2021-06-26)
... that Carla Van Zon ran two arts festivals in New Zealand? (2021-06-26)
... that Stina Quint was the founder and editor of Kamratposten, one of the earliest children's magazines in Sweden? (2021-06-25)
... that Edith Kanakaʻole's acceptance speech for a 1978 Na Hoku Hanohano Award was given entirely in the Hawaiian language? (2021-06-25)
... that despite Beverly White's earlier opposition to abortion, she represented Planned Parenthood at the World Conference on Women, 1995? (2021-06-24)
... that Sae Eun Park is the first Asian étoile at the Paris Opera Ballet, and one of the few foreigners to hold the title? (2021-06-22)
... that in 1929, Lisl Goldarbeiter became the first Austrian to win the Miss Universe title? (2021-06-22)
... that Sydney Morton's grandfather appeared in Run, Little Chillun (poster pictured), but the musical theatre bug skipped a generation? (2021-06-21)
... that the biography of Karin Boye, written by Swedish literary critic Margit Abenius, was criticised for the conservative analysis of Boye's homosexuality? (2021-06-20)
... that the Honolulu Star-Bulletin described Thelma Akana Harrison as "volatile", "brilliant", and "vivacious"? (2021-06-19)
... that Catherine Sourbut Groves, who experienced the fall of the Berlin Wall as a student, became an archdeacon in the Church of England via Zoom? (2021-06-19)
... that "Segne du, Maria", requesting Mary to bless her child in life and death, was written by Cordula Wöhler in 1870 and finally included in the common Gotteslob hymnal in 2013? (2021-06-18)
... that German swimmer Lisa Höpink won two medals at the 2019 Summer Universiade and qualified for two events at the 2020 Summer Olympics? (2021-06-18)
... that in a 1922 letter to the editor, Flora Kaai Hayes defended the morality of hula compared to the "bosom to bosom, thigh to thigh dances" seen on steamboats and roof gardens at the time? (2021-06-18)
... that Argentine trans woman Mariela Muñoz raised 23 children and worked as a tarot reader to support them? (2021-06-17)
... that Swedish writer Annie Åkerhielm (pictured) was an active campaigner against women's suffrage and democracy? (2021-06-17)
... that Eve Pitts, one of the Church of England's "fiercest critics", is also their first black woman vicar? (2021-06-15)
... that when Honor McKellar studied voice in England, Ralph Vaughan Williams called her "the girl who does things with the words"? (2021-06-14)
... that Mary Custis Lee (pictured), a daughter of the Confederate general Robert E. Lee, refused to sit in the "whites-only" section of a streetcar? (2021-06-13)
... that Cuilin Zhang leads a study of about 4,000 women who had diabetes in pregnancy to identify factors in the progression from gestational diabetes to type 2 diabetes? (2021-06-13)
... that actress Rebecca Dayan developed a love for acting while being raised in a hotel? (2021-06-12)
... that Ingrid Wallberg was the first female architect in Sweden with her own firm? (2021-06-12)
... that the rock band Blur were the wedding band for the reception of journalists Jane Suiter and Leo Finlay in Dublin in 1990? (2021-06-10)
... that after the 2020 Summer Olympics were postponed, South African artistic gymnast Caitlin Rooskrantz livestreamed the routine she was going to perform? (2021-06-10)
... that Kate Nicholl is the first lord mayor of Belfast in recent times not to be born in the United Kingdom or Ireland? (2021-06-09)
... that Royal Ballet dancer Fumi Kaneko danced Princess Aurora in a cinema relay of The Sleeping Beauty, even though she was supposed to portray the Lilac Fairy? (2021-06-08)
... that Ester Wajcblum and other Jewish prisoners of Auschwitz smuggled gunpowder out of a munitions plant and successfully destroyed a crematorium at Birkenau during the Sonderkommando revolt? (2021-06-08)
... that Maria Calegari danced principal roles in every ballet performed by the New York City Ballet during a weekend in her early career? (2021-06-07)
... that Swedish artist Gerda Höglund painted her first altarpiece in South Africa before creating a similar work (pictured) in Sweden? (2021-06-07)
... that after buying a view camera in the 1880s, Marie Hartig Kendall (pictured) took over 30,000 photographs? (2021-06-06)
... that Western media treated Egyptian activist Gihan Ibrahim as a face of the Egyptian revolution of 2011, but rarely mentioned her revolutionary-socialist political views? (2021-06-06)
... that Izkia Siches, who was re-elected as president of the Chilean Medical College in 2020, has ruled out running for President of Chile in 2021? (2021-06-05)
... that British sailor Eilidh McIntyre, who has qualified for the 2020 Summer Olympics, is the daughter of a former Olympic gold medallist? (2021-06-05)
... that Gretchen Campbell's research on Bose–Einstein condensates may provide insight into the expansion of the early universe? (2021-06-04)
... that soprano Estelle Liebling, the voice teacher of Beverly Sills and Meryl Streep, performed in more than 1600 concerts with John Philip Sousa and his band? (2021-06-04)
... that ballerina Margaret Tracey performed for Bill and Hillary Clinton when Maria Tallchief received a Kennedy Center Honor? (2021-06-03)
... that labor activist Mother Blizzard once led a group of women to tear up train tracks to prevent an attack on striking miners? (2021-06-02)
... that although ballerina Cynthia Harvey spent most of her career with the American Ballet Theatre, she was also the first American principal dancer with the Royal Ballet in London? (2021-06-02)
... that Meredith Clark (pictured) is "the go-to person about Black Twitter", according to NPR? (2021-06-01)
... that Finnish politician Kaarina Suonio answered the world's first GSM phone call? (2021-06-01)
... that the Bishop of Bath and Wells said that "there is not a more dangerous woman in the West" than Mary Speke? (2021-05-31)
... that Finnish politician Maija Rask earned a PhD at the age of 61 after a career as a nurse, teacher, member of Parliament, and minister of education? (2021-05-31)
... that Gertrude Michelson sat on the board of trustees of Columbia University before it began admitting female students? (2021-05-31)
... that Irish association footballer Margaret Saurin later worked as a coach in the US? (2021-05-30)
... that Meeri Kalavainen (pictured), Finland's first minister of culture, helped end a schism in the women's branch of the Social Democratic Party? (2021-05-29)
... that the 2017 film Suburbicon was inspired by Daisy Myers's family, who faced racially charged harassment and violence in all-white Levittown, Pennsylvania? (2021-05-29)
... that Sinikka Luja-Penttilä published a novel in the same year that she retired from the Finnish parliament? (2021-05-28)
... that Finnish politician Maija Perho encouraged future president Sauli Niinistö to join the National Coalition Party in the 1960s? (2021-05-28)
... that as a child, future script supervisor Pamela Mann-Francis went to the cinema multiple times a week, even during Second World War air raids? (2021-05-27)
... that ballerina Marie-Jeanne entered the School of American Ballet two days after seeing a ballet performance for the first time? (2021-05-27)
... that in April 2020, the Somali health minister, Fawziya Abikar Nur, announced the death of Somalia's second COVID-19 victim, a state justice minister? (2021-05-26)
... that, though a poet like her famous great-uncle Henry Wadsworth, Stephanie Longfellow found fame as an actress? (2021-05-25)
... that the University of Oulu renamed an institute after Finnish politician Kerttu Saalasti (pictured) in 2017, six decades after she introduced the bill that established the university? (2021-05-23)
... that because of her striking beauty and sense of high fashion, soprano Annamary Dickey was dubbed the "Glamour Girl of the Met" in 1949? (2021-05-23)
... that the first founder of a free-to-use English school was Lady Katharine Berkeley (sculpture pictured)? (2021-05-22)
... that after her death Katri-Helena Eskelinen was voted "the greatest Siilinjärvi resident of all time" by her hometown? (2021-05-20)
... that despite being warned that her "female parts would be damaged", Susan Beharriell recorded 80 hours in a jet during her time training fighter pilots? (2021-05-19)
... that the new director of DARPA, Stefanie Tompkins, was paid by NASA to analyze moon rocks? (2021-05-19)
... that British actress Marie Empress was last seen on a Cunard liner bound for New York? (2021-05-19)
... that the designer of the flag of Papua New Guinea, Susan Karike, had a gallery at the national museum named after her? (2021-05-18)
... that Alli Lahtinen, the first woman to lead a central government agency in Finland, helped establish the country's national child care system? (2021-05-17)
... that in 2012, French women's football club Arras FCF were promoted to the country's top division and reached the semi-finals of the French Cup? (2021-05-16)
... that Orvokki Kangas authored six books, including a novel, memoirs, and religious devotionals, after she left the Finnish parliament at the age of 61? (2021-05-15)
... that Silvia Bottini, the face of the "First World Problems" meme, has done makeup for T-Pain and publicly performed Ovid? (2021-05-14)
... that for several nights early in her career, ballerina Mary Ellen Moylan danced in a Balanchine ballet, then took a taxi to another theater to appear in the second act of an operetta? (2021-05-14)
... that Colonel Anna von Wattenwyl went to jail in Switzerland because of her work for the Salvation Army? (2021-05-14)
... that Norwegian footballer Sissel Grude retired aged 22, but returned for a one-off appearance 22 years later? (2021-05-13)
... that Irma Toivanen, who was part of a group of Finnish volunteer medics during World War II, helped make a film about the group six decades later? (2021-05-11)
... that when Hetty Jane Dunaway created Dunaway Gardens near Atlanta, it had a 400 and a 1,000 seat theatre and a swimming pool blasted out with explosives? (2021-05-10)
... that Finnish politician Margit Eskman did not attend secondary school because she had to work in a shoe factory? (2021-05-10)
... that after surviving the Holocaust, writer Trudi Birger moved to Israel with her family and founded a non-profit dental clinic? (2021-05-09)
... that Pirjo Ala-Kapee-Hakulinen was the first and only governor of the Eastern Finland Province from its creation in 1997 to its abolition in 2010? (2021-05-09)
... that Nicholas Chevalier designed a fern-inspired dress for Anne Maria Barkly, an expert on South African ferns? (2021-05-08)
... that although Surrey County Council created over 250 smallholdings for men after the First World War, it was the Women's Farm and Garden Society which created those for women? (2021-05-07)
... that Rosa Agthe (pictured) and her future husband performed the roles of Elsa and Telramund, respectively, in the world premiere of Wagner's Lohengrin, conducted by Franz Liszt in Weimar? (2021-05-06)
... that Grischa Huber played Grischa in Under the Pavement Lies the Strand, regarded as "a cult film in the feminist movement"? (2021-05-06)
... that Emma Mullin, who won four Gaelic football championships, was also the first player from her association football club to play for the Republic of Ireland? (2021-05-06)
... that Ecuadorian presidential candidate Ximena Peña previously represented the United States and Canada in the National Assembly? (2021-05-05)
... that Vieno Simonen was first elected to the Finnish parliament in 1948, ten years after she was widowed with seven children? (2021-05-05)
... that eight-year-old Róża Maria Goździewska (pictured) was "the youngest child nurse" in the Warsaw Uprising? (2021-05-05)
... that Julie Erichsen is the first female Norwegian gymnast to qualify for an Olympic Games since 1992? (2021-05-05)
... that Linn Sömskar (pictured) has won medals at World Cups in both cross-country skiing and roller skiing? (2021-05-04)
... that Finnish minister Kyllikki Pohjala learned English while working in New York hospitals to pay for her education at Columbia University? (2021-05-04)
... that soprano Florence Kirk's temperamental fit over her costume as Lady Macbeth led to the professional debut of opera star Regina Resnik who replaced her? (2021-05-04)
... that seeds from Asia allowed Dorothy Renton to create "the finest two acres of private garden" (detail pictured) in Scotland? (2021-05-04)
... that Canadian geneticist Phyllis McAlpine was among the first to promote a unified gene nomenclature system and helped found the HUGO Gene Nomenclature Committee? (2021-05-02)
... that in 1908, Louisa Wilkins went to Damascus without local language skills, wearing long skirts and riding side saddle? (2021-05-02)
... that actress Bertha Belmore starred in the Ziegfeld Follies of 1925 with W. C. Fields and Will Rogers? (2021-05-02)
... that Euphemia de Walliers made additions to the illuminated psalter (detail pictured) left by her predecessor as Wherwell Abbey's prioress, Matilda de Bailleul? (2021-05-01)
... that French rugby union referee Aurélie Groizeleau also breeds almost 7,000 pairs of pigeons? (2021-05-01)
... that Anna-Liisa Tiekso dropped out of university in 1951 to become the youngest member of the Finnish parliament? (2021-05-01)
... that after Rhoda, Lady Birley, made fish stew with cognac for her roses, her daughter said that they "almost cried out with pleasure"? (2021-04-30)
... that Inkeri Anttila (pictured), Finland's first female minister of justice, was also the first woman in Finland to complete a doctorate in law? (2021-04-30)
... that Helen D'Amato was appointed to a three-year term as Malta's commissioner of children, but held the role for nearly twice as long after her term expired without a successor being designated? (2021-04-30)
... that Truus Smulders-Beliën, the first female mayor in the Netherlands, succeeded her husband after he was executed by Nazi soldiers? (2021-04-29)
... that Olena Tokar, a soprano of the Leipzig Opera from Ukraine, recorded Charmes, a collection of art songs by women including Clara Schumann and Vítězslava Kaprálová? (2021-04-29)
... that Karlin Lillington, long-time technology writer for Ireland's newspaper of record, The Irish Times, holds a PhD on the poetry of Seamus Heaney? (2021-04-29)
... that Julie Mennell was a police officer and a forensics specialist before she became vice chancellor of the University of Cumbria? (2021-04-28)
... that when Irene del Río was called up to the Spain women's national football team squad, she was the only player who did not compete in the country's top division? (2021-04-28)
... that British nurse Ethel Becher was described as a "modern Florence Nightingale" in 1919 for her services during World War I? (2021-04-28)
... that tea room owner Edith Warner was convinced by Robert Oppenheimer to keep her restaurant open to serve the scientists working on the Manhattan Project, including Niels Bohr and Enrico Fermi? (2021-04-28)
... that Leontyne Price described her relationship with voice teacher Florence Kimball as "the most important relationship of my life. Like sex it was pure chemistry"? (2021-04-27)
... that Mrs Justice Lieven made an Order for a pregnant woman with learning difficulties to have an abortion against her wishes, but it was overturned in the Court of Appeal? (2021-04-26)
... that in 1999 Jan Fullerton became the first woman to be appointed Director General of the National Library of Australia? (2021-04-26)
... that Gabriela Canavilhas was a pianist playing Portuguese compositions before she became Portugal's Minister of Culture? (2021-04-26)
... that The Much Honoured Catherine Maxwell Stuart, who lives in Scotland's oldest continuously-inhabited stately home, is the first female laird of Traquair? (2021-04-26)
... that Tina LeBlanc spent 17 years as a principal dancer with the San Francisco Ballet despite being rejected by the American Ballet Theatre as a teenager? (2021-04-25)
... that Stephanie Davis, who has qualified for the 2020 Summer Olympics, is a part-time marathon runner who works in finance? (2021-04-25)
... that Debra Humphris, the vice chancellor of the University of Brighton, advocated converting 18th-century army barracks into student residences? (2021-04-25)
... that Xiaohong Rose Yang conducted a genome-wide search for copy number variations to identify the first susceptibility gene for familial chordoma? (2021-04-24)
... that Payal Ghanwani was the first Belizean senator of Indian descent? (2021-04-24)
... that the Syrian-Lebanese poet Maha Bayrakdar won the Miss Syria beauty pageant in 1967? (2021-04-24)
... that in 2021, Lefébre Rademan was unable to play for the South Africa national netball team as she was playing club netball in England? (2021-04-24)
... that Nellah Massey Bailey became the first woman to be elected statewide in Mississippi in 1947, less than a year after the death of her husband Governor Thomas L. Bailey? (2021-04-23)
... that Indigenous Australian elder Ivaritji was the last speaker of the Kaurna language before its revival in the 1990s? (2021-04-22)
... that the Catholic Church barred Deborah Schembri from practicing law in ecclesiastical court because she led a campaign to legalize divorce in Malta? (2021-04-22)
... that Shirley Congdon, the vice chancellor of the University of Bradford, was the first in her family to attend university? (2021-04-21)
... that Rannveig Þorsteinsdóttir, a newspaper clerk and part-time teacher in the 1920s, became the first woman to practice law in the Supreme Court of Iceland thirty years later? (2021-04-21)
... that former ballerina Katita Waldo briefly came out of retirement to perform as the stepmother in Christopher Wheeldon's Cinderella? (2021-04-21)
... that biologist Joni L. Rutter (pictured) led the development of the All of Us research program to include more than a million participants to advance precision medicine? (2021-04-21)
... that the Women's London Championship was viewed as a response to the introduction of women's franchise cricket in England? (2021-04-20)
... that Theresa M. Korn turned down a scholarship to the Carnegie Institute of Technology in order to become the institute's first female engineer? (2021-04-20)
... that Mary L. Smith became the first female president of Kentucky State University in 1991 despite having been passed over for the same job a year earlier? (2021-04-20)
... that Cuban ballerinas and sisters Lorena and Lorna Feijóo both moved to the U.S., and once split the roles of Black and White Swans in Swan Lake, which are usually danced by the same person? (2021-04-20)
... that Kate Clark wrote the children's book A Southern Cross Fairy Tale, which used Northern Hemisphere Christmas imagery but featured the natural features and animals of New Zealand? (2021-04-18)
... that Aga Mikolaj, a soprano who studied with Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, appeared as Mozart's Donna Elvira from San Francisco to Tokyo, and sang the Four Last Songs with "a degree of abandon and rapture"? (2021-04-18)
... that Senegalese artist and actress Younousse Sèye, who is best known for her mixed-media works incorporating cowrie shells, is considered to be Senegal's first woman painter? (2021-04-17)
... that ballerina Catherine Hurlin performed in Radio City Christmas Spectacular between the age of eleven and thirteen? (2021-04-17)
... that after Maria Camilleri co-founded a school for Muslim children in Malta, she became the only Christian headmistress of a Muslim school in the world? (2021-04-16)
... that as part of her influential research on the garden strawberry, Vivian Lee Bowden discovered the unpublished drawings of early French botanist Antoine Nicolas Duchesne? (2021-04-15)
... that Addison Rae's debut single "Obsessed" is about self-love? (2021-04-15)
... that Halyna Sevruk was expelled from the Union of Artists of Ukraine in 1968 due to a political letter she signed? (2021-04-15)
... that Anja Petersen performed the role of the leading woman in the world premiere of Arnulf Herrmann's Der Mieter at the Oper Frankfurt? (2021-04-15)
... that Marita Napier is the first South African opera singer to have performed lead roles in each of the four "Grand Slam" opera houses? (2021-04-14)
... that after the start of Afghan peace talks in 2019, journalist Farahnaz Forotan travelled the country to collect testimonies from women and prevent the rollback of their freedoms? (2021-04-13)
... that ballerina Elena Lobsanova broke the "curse of Marie" at the National Ballet of Canada? (2021-04-13)
... that Zahra Mohamed Ahmad (pictured), who gives legal advice at the Somali Women Development Centre, is said to be a Woman of Courage? (2021-04-12)
... that ballerina Unity Phelan danced in the films John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum and I'm Thinking of Ending Things? (2021-04-12)
... that Kathy Hudson, an expert in science policy and genetic discrimination, helped assemble a team that led to the passage of the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act? (2021-04-11)
... that Marion Macfarlane, the first deaconess in the Anglican Church of Australia, later converted to Catholicism and joined the Sisters of the Good Shepherd? (2021-04-10)
... that Diane Damiano (pictured), a biomedical scientist and physical therapist, helped create a robotic exoskeleton designed to aid children with cerebral palsy to learn how to walk? (2021-04-10)
... that after Erna Schlüter had appeared as Elektra at the Royal Opera House, the composer, who was in the audience, told her that she was the fulfilment of the character? (2021-04-09)
... that ballerina Miranda Weese performed the lead role in a televised performance of Swan Lake under an hour's notice, with a partner she had never rehearsed with? (2021-04-08)
... that the pioneering Turkish soprano Mesude Çağlayan was presented a tiny doll of "Madama Butterfly" by the government of Japan for performing the Japanese title role in Puccini's opera? (2021-04-08)
... that the French football club GPSO 92 Issy was founded by three Peruvian sisters in 1997? (2021-04-08)
... that the Nazis at Ravensbrück killed French Resistance fighter Émilie Tillion by gas chamber for having white hair? (2021-04-07)
... that on the first day of the East L.A. walkouts, Vickie Castro's car was used to take down a fence at Roosevelt High School? (2021-04-07)
... that irked by the immense gap in gender-focused digital storytelling from both Sudan and South Sudan, Omnia Shawkat co-founded Andariya magazine? (2021-04-06)
... that as a fifteen-year-old student, ballerina Angelica Generosa replaced an injured schoolmate to perform a lead role in Balanchine's Stars and Stripes after two weeks of rehearsals? (2021-04-05)
... that singer-songwriter Lupita Infante (pictured) advocates for women's empowerment through her traditional norteño and ranchera music? (2021-04-03)
... that Jacquie Sturm was the first Māori writer to have her work published in a New Zealand anthology? (2021-04-03)
... that Tonia Shand became Australia's first woman high commissioner to Sri Lanka in 1988? (2021-04-02)
... that Sister Elizabeth Sander, who was imprisoned for carrying "lewd books", escaped twice? (2021-04-02)
... that Brenda Banks was one of the first African-American women to work as a professional animator? (2021-03-31)
... that Irish Times columnist Róisín Ingle has penned more than 4,000 pieces, including "It was love at first riot" about meeting her life partner in Northern Ireland? (2021-03-30)
... that one of Elizabeth Cressener's nuns entered her priory as a ten-year-old princess? (2021-03-30)
... that Christina Adane's free school meal campaign created a UK government U-turn? (2021-03-30)
... that Stephanie Saland decided to become a ballet dancer because of computerized report cards? (2021-03-29)
... that Sandra Wolin, a physician-microbiologist, devised an early ribosome profiling method as a postdoctoral researcher in Peter Walter's lab at the University of California, San Francisco? (2021-03-28)
... that when Marjan Haydaree became the all-time top scorer for the Afghanistan women's national football team, she had never set foot in Afghanistan? (2021-03-27)
... that of the ten Taiwanese delegates at the 2017 National Congress of the Communist Party of China, only one, Lu Li'an, was born in Taiwan? (2021-03-27)
... that when the Conservative Mary Morris claimed to "never to have been a militant suffragette", the audience laughed? (2021-03-26)
... that physician-scientist and cancer researcher Giovanna Tosato (pictured) had just crossed the finish line when the Boston Marathon bombing started? (2021-03-25)
... that Lucia Votano (pictured) was the first woman to be appointed director of the Gran Sasso National Laboratory, the largest underground research center in the world? (2021-03-24)
... that Millie Dienert was called the "first lady of prayer" for her work on behalf of evangelist Billy Graham? (2021-03-21)
... that Hollis Taylor has argued that birdsong should be considered music? (2021-03-21)
... that Dorothy Henriques-Wells made 360 paintings for display on three Norwegian Cruise Line ships? (2021-03-20)
... that Maha Jaafar, a Sudanese-Iraqi dentist who started producing YouTube videos to "have fun with her friends", has attracted almost two million views for a video mimicking Arabic dialects and stereotypes? (2021-03-19)
... that Icelandic footballer Þórdís Hrönn Sigfúsdóttir has had to self-isolate on four occasions during the COVID-19 pandemic? (2021-03-18)
... that Heléne Alexopoulos was one of the few New York City Ballet dancers who had children? (2021-03-18)
... that ballerina Patricia Delgado danced in a music video for indie rock band the National? (2021-03-17)
... that teenager Jyoti Kumari (pictured) travelled 750 miles (1,210 km) on a bicycle with her injured father, during India's COVID-19 lockdown? (2021-03-17)
... that on Saint Patrick's Day in 2003, Catholic Worker Clare Grady broke into an Army recruiting center and poured her blood on the walls, windows, and a US flag in a protest against the invasion of Iraq? (2021-03-17)
... that Irish sportswoman Carol Breen has played internationally in both association and Australian rules football? (2021-03-17)
... that research incorporating sex as a biological variable enhances the rigor and reproducibility of results? (2021-03-16)
... that Lisa Martin captained the Scotland women's national rugby union team in 2018 to their first victory in Ireland for 12 years? (2021-03-16)
... that ballerina Kay Mazzo created roles in three ballets choreographed by George Balanchine during the New York City Ballet's Stravinsky Festival in 1972? (2021-03-16)
... that French rugby union player Audrey Forlani scored a try in the decisive match of the 2016 Women's Six Nations Championship, after which France won the tournament? (2021-03-15)
... that in 2020, Jasmin Taylor broke the record for the most medals won by a British skier at the World Cup and World Championships? (2021-03-13)
... that for 300 years a Kathakali dancer had to be a high-caste man until the Tripunithura Kathakali Kendram Ladies Troupe was formed in 1975? (2021-03-08)
... that Susan B. Anthony took British citizenship to avoid testifying before the House Un-American Activities Committee and later spent nine years trying to repatriate? (2021-03-08)
... that Sadhana Mahila Sangha protected Bangalore sex workers from the police and from HIV, but they now help feed them during the pandemic? (2021-03-08)
... that Pat Lundvall was the first female chair of the Nevada Athletic Commission, but garnered controversy for some of her decisions relating to mixed martial arts? (2021-03-08)
... that Krishna Yadav's journey from finding jobs for her family growing vegetables in Delhi to creating jobs for others won her an award (pictured) on International Women's Day? (2021-03-08)
... that the Venkateswara Temple only allowed male barbers to shave off the ton of hair that is donated every day until Kagganapalli Radha Devi (pictured) challenged the rules? (2021-03-08)
... that after being told that women could not compete in athletics at the 1924 Summer Olympics, the FSFSF set up their own Women's Olympiad? (2021-03-08)
... that Andréa Guiot appeared internationally in French soprano roles such as Mireille, Marguerite, Manon, and Micaëla in Bizet's Carmen, which she recorded alongside Maria Callas in the title role? (2021-03-08)
... that in 1973, jockey Robyn Smith won a race while riding a horse named after her? (2021-03-07)
... that Malysha Kelly's return to the Jamaica national netball team after a three-year absence was halted by the COVID-19 pandemic? (2021-03-07)
... that Nyeema Morgan collaborated in the design of a wooden Afrofuturist replica of the Millennium Falcon? (2021-03-06)
... that Molly Clutton-Brock treated the spines of African babies until she was deported by the government of Rhodesia? (2021-03-03)
... that Vera Wülfing-Leckie translated in Senegal a novel by Boubacar Boris Diop written in the Wolof language, titled Doomi Golo: The Hidden Notebooks in English? (2021-03-02)
... that Doris Stockhausen's husband dedicated several compositions to her, beginning with Chöre für Doris in 1950 before they married? (2021-02-28)
... that Libuše Domanínská, a soprano of Prague's National Theatre, performed in all of Janáček's operas, and a recording she made as his Jenůfa made his works better known beyond their home country? (2021-02-25)
... that the common-law wife of the ninth vice president of the United States was Julia Chinn, an enslaved woman? (2021-02-25)
... that Lucy Monroe (pictured), the "star-spangled soprano", estimated that she performed "The Star-Spangled Banner" over 5,000 times? (2021-02-19)
... that Biserka Cvejić, a Serbian mezzo-soprano who appeared at the Vienna State Opera in 372 performances, made her Metropolitan Opera debut in 1961 as Amneris in Verdi's Aida? (2021-02-18)
... that sisters Amal, Hadia, and Hayat Talsam, known as Al Balabil, were referred to as "The Sudanese Supremes"? (2021-02-17)
... that ballerina Merrill Ashley is one of the last dancers to have worked with choreographer George Balanchine? (2021-02-16)
... that Dorothee Manski, a soprano of the Berlin Court Opera, gave 335 performances at the Metropolitan Opera after being invited to appear there as the Witch in Humperdinck's Hänsel und Gretel in 1927? (2021-02-16)
... that due to the COVID-19 pandemic in the UK the entire 2021 Netball Superleague season is being hosted at just two venues? (2021-02-16)
... that civil rights lawyer Deborah Archer is the first African-American to be president of the American Civil Liberties Union in its 101-year history? (2021-02-13)
... that Mother Oya, born into a wealthy family, lived and worked without salary in an orphanage for more than 60 years? (2021-02-12)
... that while held in a concentration camp, Zhu Min sabotaged Nazi cartridge boxes by spitting into them? (2021-02-10)
... that Nilüfer Verdi is the first female jazz pianist in Turkey? (2021-02-09)
... that Anne Bierwirth has performed the alto part in Bach's Christmas Oratorio, and in a recording of the first Passion oratorio in German by Reinhard Keiser? (2021-02-09)
... that "noted controversialist" Mary Aldis (depicted) tried to get Auckland City Council to stop a woman being fired from a cannon in 1887? (2021-02-08)
... that rapper Zane One does not listen to much hip hop music, and her debut album features samples from classic rock and folk songs? (2021-02-06)
... that Rānui Ngārimu (pictured) helped weave Te Māhutonga (the Southern Cross), the Māori cloak worn by the flag bearer of the New Zealand Olympic team since 2004? (2021-02-05)
... that ballerina Georgina Parkinson created several roles in ballets choreographed by Kenneth MacMillan, including Romeo and Juliet, Manon and Mayerling? (2021-02-03)
... that Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (pictured) is the youngest woman ever to serve in the United States Congress? (2021-02-01)
... that Ethiopian-Italian refugee environmentalist Agitu Ideo Gudeta was nicknamed the "Queen of Happy Goats"? (2021-01-30)
... that Zéna M'Déré led a protest movement in Mayotte in which women tickled their political opponents, forcing them to comply with their demands? (2021-01-29)
... that Minnie Lou Crosthwaite, the first Black woman to pass the teacher exam in Nashville's segregated school system, and Minnie Lee Crosthwaite, one of Kansas City's first Black social workers, both attended Fisk University? (2021-01-29)
... that Sylvie Fortier retired from competitive synchronized swimming at only 18, saying she was happy with what she had achieved? (2021-01-28)
... that Olga Petit – the first female lawyer in France – was a Russian? (2021-01-28)
... that Susan Estes is the first woman to have her own company in the historically male bond-trading business in the U.S.? (2021-01-27)
... that pioneering Chicago abolitionist Mary Richardson Jones (pictured) helped hundreds of people escape slavery via the Underground Railroad? (2021-01-27)
... that former New York City Ballet principal dancer Janie Taylor appeared in the film Center Stage as a background dancer, and served as a motion caption dancer for Barbie of Swan Lake? (2021-01-26)
... that Eleanor Keaton, who at age 21 became the third wife of silent-film comedian Buster Keaton, was widely credited with rehabilitating his life and career? (2021-01-26)
... that by paying attention to mundane decision-making among activists, the critical theorist Eva Haifa Giraud troubles the notion of staying with the trouble? (2021-01-25)
... that a body-shaming comment from a New York Times critic led to ballerina Jenifer Ringer's appearances on The Oprah Winfrey Show and The Today Show? (2021-01-24)
... that Antoinette Dinga Dzondo (pictured), Minister of Social Affairs and Humanitarian Action of the Republic of the Congo, set up a fund to help refugees in the country return home? (2021-01-24)
... that the discrimination Vilma Núñez (pictured) experienced as a child born out of wedlock motivated her career as a Nicaraguan lawyer and human-rights activist? (2021-01-23)
... that ballerina Jennie Somogyi was offered an apprenticeship at the New York City Ballet when she was 15, becoming one of the youngest dancers to join the company? (2021-01-22)
... that Edmilsa Governo won Mozambique's first medal at a Paralympic Games in 2016? (2021-01-22)
... that Swedish actress Ingrid Bergman (pictured) did not think she would be believable as Israeli prime minister Golda Meir, but her performance added a Primetime Emmy to her awards shelf? (2021-01-21)
... that ballerina Kyra Nichols danced with the New York City Ballet for 33 years, retiring shortly before she turned 49? (2021-01-21)
... that the Bharatanatyam dancer Sangeeta Isvaran works with deprived communities and uses dance and theatre in an effort to bring about social reform? (2021-01-20)
... that Hannah J. Patterson and other suffragists hauled a replica of the Liberty Bell across Pennsylvania to gain the right to vote? (2021-01-20)
... that Bianca Smith, the first Black female coach in professional baseball history, has a J.D. degree in sports law and an MBA in sports management? (2021-01-19)
... that during the reigns of King Kalākaua and Queen Liliʻuokalani, attempts were made to change the constitution to grant women of the Hawaiian Kingdom the right to vote? (2021-01-17)
... that the artist Thilagavathi teaches social interactions and facial expressions to children on the autism spectrum through Therukoothu folk-theatre performances? (2021-01-17)
... that Taylor Swift's 2020 song "Marjorie" has been described as "a heart-rending tribute" to her grandmother, opera singer Marjorie Finlay, who inspired Swift's musical career? (2021-01-16)
... that Katherine Loker donated $30 million each to Harvard and USC, and millions more to develop university, medical, and cultural programs in California? (2021-01-16)
... that Debbie Muir retired from synchronized swimming at age 20 and coached the Calgary Aquabelles to 22 national titles in ten years? (2021-01-16)
... that actress and tennis player Filiz Taçbaş, tired of city life, purchased agricultural land and obtained a farming certificate, and now grows olives and lemons? (2021-01-15)
... that Adele Rose wrote 457 scripts for the British soap opera Coronation Street, more than any other contributor? (2021-01-15)
... that Wall Street Journal architecture columnist Julie V. Iovine caused an uproar when she wrote that Yale University had a reputation for being a "gay school" in 1987? (2021-01-13)
... that Iti Tyagi said, "I urge every woman to come out of their shells and to break the stereotype" after receiving the Nari Shakti Puraskar? (2021-01-13)
... that both Elfriede Jelinek's 2013 play Die Schutzbefohlenen and the ancient Greek play that inspired it deal with refugees fleeing to Europe? (2021-01-13)
... that the environmental journalist Swati Thiyagarajan investigated claims of interspecies communication made by the conservationist Anna Breytenbach? (2021-01-12)
... that competitive swimmer Meenakshi Pahuja encountered water snakes in one river race at Murshidabad, and a corpse in another? (2021-01-12)
... that when Abbey House Museum curator Violet Crowther wanted to add old-fashioned household objects or "bygones" to the collection, she advertised for a pair of bellows in the local newspaper? (2021-01-10)
... that women's rights activist Mebrure Aksoley founded an elementary school before serving for more than 40 years in the Turkish parliament, Constituent Assembly, and Senate? (2021-01-10)
... that Maureen O'Hara and John Wayne (both pictured) had such a strong rapport on screen that some people believed that they were married in real life? (2021-01-10)
... that Ethiopian runner Helen Bekele Tola has stated a desire to compete for Switzerland at the 2020 Summer Olympics? (2021-01-09)
... that Fran Todman, who fundraised for the Retina Foundation for decades, was honored with an electrophysiology laboratory at the Schepens Eye Research Institute being named for her? (2021-01-09)
... that Rosl Zapf, a mezzo-soprano of the Oper Frankfurt who took part in world premieres, appeared at the Salzburg Festival in Mozart's Die Zauberflöte conducted by Georg Solti? (2021-01-08)
... that Molly Gray, the new lieutenant governor of Vermont, is a former competitive skier and the daughter of an Olympic skier? (2021-01-08)
... that at the Schaubühne in Berlin, Jutta Lampe played Ophelia "as if in a trance", and male and female roles on a time voyage as the only actor in the premiere of Robert Wilson's Orlando? (2021-01-08)
... that Canadian ethnomusicologist Judith R. Cohen dispels the myth that Judeo-Spanish songs have medieval origins and are unique to Sephardic Jews? (2021-01-08)
... that Elaine Van Blunk finished third at the 1994 Chicago Marathon, her second marathon event? (2021-01-07)
... that arachnologist Ekaterina Andreeva wrote the first original monograph published in the USSR about Central Asian spiders? (2021-01-07)
... that despite receiving 30,000 monthly fan letters, top box-office silent-film star Clara Bow (pictured) was convinced that talking pictures would ruin her career? (2021-01-07)
... that Massachusetts-born activist Almira Hollander Pitman was given credit for the passage of a bill for women's suffrage in Hawaii? (2021-01-07)
... that Christine Nagel (pictured) once created a strawberry-and-popcorn perfume for Dior? (2021-01-06)
... that Hawaiian princess Kaʻiulani was an avid surfer and professed in an interview, "I'm sure I was a seal in another world because I am so fond of the water"? (2021-01-05)
... that Gertrude Degenhardt illustrated her brother-in-law Franz Josef Degenhardt's song albums in the 1960s, and created art books such as Women in Music and Vagabondage in Blue in the 1990s? (2021-01-04)
... that ballerina and répétiteur Sara Leland was able to stage more than 30 ballets due to her ability to remember choreography accurately? (2021-01-03)
... that Mildred Mottahedeh's personal collection of porcelain was described by Nelson Rockefeller as "utterly fabulous, an artistic and cultural treasure without comparison in its field"? (2021-01-03)
... that Enid Szánthó, a leading contralto of the Vienna State Opera, appeared as Erda in Wagner's Ring cycle at the Bayreuth Festival in 1930, but was no longer invited by 1938? (2021-01-02)
... that Spanish physicist Teresa Rodrigo worked on the discovery of the Higgs boson at CERN and the discovery of the top quark at Fermilab? (2021-01-01)
... that the diaries of Lady Lacoste, a 19th-century philanthropist from Montreal, give historians a rare look into how emotions impacted the lives of women in her social class? (2020-12-30)
... that Shirley Temple said of her relationship with her favorite dance partner Bill "Bojangles" Robinson (both pictured): "It was kind of a magic between us"? (2020-12-27)
... that in 1975, Finland's Minister of Education Marjatta Väänänen sent a petition to the Archbishop of Turku with almost 1 million signatures, advocating for the introduction of female priests? (2020-12-25)
... that Houkje Gerrits Bouma was a female Dutch speed-skating winner at a time when women were still allowed to bare their arms? (2020-12-24)
... that during the Nazi occupation of Poland, Halina Kwiatkowska acted in an underground theatre alongside a future pope? (2020-12-21)
... that shortly after winning a conference tournament championship with Vanderbilt's soccer team, Sarah Fuller became the first woman to play football in a Power Five conference game? (2020-12-20)
... that Black Futures, a 544-page collection of Black art and writing, was originally going to be a zine? (2020-12-20)
... that Claudia Chamorro Barrios married on the birthday of her assassinated father? (2020-12-19)
... that when Cotton Queen Frances Lockett was crowned in 1930, souvenir handkerchiefs made from "Queenetta" fabric were sold? (2020-12-18)
... that essayist Briallen Hopper got her start writing sermons? (2020-12-17)
... that Katie Levick gave up the chance to play cricket for England in order to pursue a full-time job? (2020-12-14)
... that in Cassandre, an opera by Michael Jarrell based on the novel by Christa Wolf, Cassandra speaks and acts without singing? (2020-12-14)
... that a non-governmental organisation set up by Hekani Jakhalu helps young entrepreneurs from Nagaland? (2020-12-13)
... that Claudette Colbert, who won her only Academy Award for Best Actress for It Happened One Night (poster pictured), privately called the film "the worst picture in the world"? (2020-12-13)
... that Wikimedian of the Year Sandister Tei (pictured) of Ghana is a former multimedia journalist for Al Jazeera? (2020-12-12)
... that Rachel Sennott stars in two 2020 queer Jewish films about funerals, but is neither queer nor Jewish? (2020-12-12)
... that Turkish accordion-playing street musician Madam Anahit also appeared in a number of films as an extra? (2020-12-12)
... that after U.S. women secured the right to vote in 1920, those from the South fought against paying a poll tax for the next 40 years? (2020-12-11)
... that The Girls in 3-B (cover pictured) was one of the first pulp-fiction novels to give a lesbian a happy ending? (2020-12-11)
... that medieval ceramics expert Jean Le Patourel was also an expert in the archaeology of dog collars? (2020-12-11)
... that sports photographer Eleni Küreman was Turkey's first professional female photojournalist? (2020-12-11)
... that British thespian Vivien Leigh (pictured) won both her Academy Awards for Best Actress for portraying women of the American South? (2020-12-10)
... that the soprano Nina Dorliak recorded works by Bach with her husband, the pianist Sviatoslav Richter, sung in Russian? (2020-12-10)
... that NCJW activist Florence Lewis was invited by President John F. Kennedy in 1963 to a White House discussion on how women's organizations could help solve civil rights issues? (2020-12-10)
... that a video of ballerina Carrie Imler dancing the 32 fouetté turns from Swan Lake went viral? (2020-12-10)
... that American historian Sarah Wilkerson Freeman curated a photo exhibit depicting the fluidity of race, gender, and sexuality in New Orleans during the McCarthy era? (2020-12-09)
... that Marjon Lambriks, who studied voice in the Netherlands with Paula Lindberg (both pictured) and made a career in Vienna, recorded La traviata alongside Pavarotti? (2020-12-09)
... that Salma wrote some of her works while sitting on the toilet, on pieces of paper ripped from calendars and notebooks? (2020-12-08)
... that in 2006, social-justice advocate Ronnie L. Podolefsky represented six female athletes who accused their high-school basketball coach of sexual misconduct? (2020-12-08)
... that when Paulina died, her husband Pammachius received condolence letters from St Jerome and Paulinus of Nola? (2020-12-08)
... that Priscilla Jana, a South African human-rights lawyer of Indian descent, was the first woman to hug Nelson Mandela in 13 years of imprisonment on Robben Island? (2020-12-07)
... that in publishing Laura's Ghost, the author insisted the book cover show a photo of Laura alive? (2020-12-07)
... that in painting First Lady Michelle Obama, Amy Sherald was inspired by the way the quilters of Gee's Bend make clothing and fabric scraps into geometric works of art? (2020-12-07)
... that the Spanish writer Eva Forest was imprisoned for alleged complicity in multiple terror attacks by the separatist group ETA? (2020-12-07)
... that Arsenal footballer Vivianne Miedema (pictured) is the all-time leading scorer in the FA Women's Super League and has scored more goals at the international level than any other Dutch player? (2020-12-05)
... that folklorist and archaeologist Ethel Rudkin was the first to quantify and categorise sightings of ghostly black dogs? (2020-12-04)
... that prolific actress Barbara Stanwyck (pictured) received four Best Actress nominations without a win, and was given an honorary Oscar in 1982 for her contributions to the film industry? (2020-12-04)
... that Arsenal Women's 11–1 win over Bristol City at Meadow Park in 2019 was the widest margin of victory in the history of the FA Women's Super League? (2020-12-04)
... that actress Norma Shearer posed for a glamor photoshoot to convince her producer-husband Irving Thalberg (both pictured) that her sexual allure would transcend to film for the lead role in The Divorcee? (2020-12-03)
... that Dolores Cabrera y Heredia, a Spanish Romantic poet and novelist, was a prominent member of Hermandad Lírica (Lyrical Sisterhood)? (2020-12-03)
... that Britain's 1977 Coal Queen won her weight in Babycham? (2020-12-02)
... that Saint Ninnoc (depicted) is often shown with a stag lying at her feet, said to represent the at-risk women who came under her guardianship? (2020-12-01)
... that Mauree Turner is the first publicly non-binary individual elected to a U.S. state legislature? (2020-11-30)
... that a foundation set up by Pragya Prasun has supported more than 250 survivors of acid attacks? (2020-11-29)
... that Jane Withers (pictured) rose to child stardom in the 1930s playing mischievous little girls, "tomboy rascals", and "America's favorite problem child"? (2020-11-29)
... that Leda Valladares produced a "Musical Map of Argentina" to document her country's folk music traditions? (2020-11-26)
... that 42 new MPs were elected to the 53rd New Zealand Parliament: 23 for Labour, including Arena Williams, Ibrahim Omer, Helen White, Neru Leavasa, Ingrid Leary, Rachel Brooking, Anna Lorck, Tracey McLellan, and Shanan Halbert (all pictured); 5 for National, including Joseph Mooney, Simon Watts, and Penny Simmonds; 9 for ACT, including Toni Severin, Simon Court, Brooke van Velden, and Chris Baillie; 3 for the Greens, including Ricardo Menéndez March and Teanau Tuiono; and 2 for Māori, including Rawiri Waititi? (2020-11-25)
... that Women's Barracks (cover pictured), regarded as a classic of lesbian pulp fiction, was banned in Canada and became the first paperback-original bestseller in the United States? (2020-11-24)
... that Maddalena Mariani Masi performed the title role of Ponchielli's La Gioconda in the 1876 world premiere at La Scala? (2020-11-24)
... that table-tennis player Isabelle Li received a standing ovation despite losing the final at the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics? (2020-11-21)
... that Anna May Wong had the starring role in Daughter of the Dragon (poster pictured), but was paid half as much as the non-Asian actor who played her father? (2020-11-21)
... that German children's author Kirsten Boie has published more than 100 books? (2020-11-20)
... that before Carole Dawn Reinhart was appointed professor of trumpet at the Vienna Music Academy, she performed in several of Al Hirt's Fanfare shows in 1965? (2020-11-20)
... that Daisy Yen Wu helped establish the new field of nutrition research at Peking Union Medical College? (2020-11-19)
... that the unveiling of Michelle Obama’s official portrait surprised Michelle Smith with the news that a gown from her collection had been chosen for the sitting? (2020-11-18)
... that the unusual given name of Chilean travel writer Maipina de la Barra commemorates the Battle of Maipú, in which her father fought? (2020-11-17)
... that despite the biggest missing-person investigation in the history of the Toronto Police Service, no physical evidence regarding the 1985 disappearance of Nicole Morin was ever found? (2020-11-16)
... that Dámasa Cabezón was contracted by the Bolivian government to establish a school for girls in La Paz after having done so in Santiago de Chile? (2020-11-14)
... that the scholarship of Nyasha Junior on the life of Moses has been described as a starting point for how he can be viewed as a subject of feminist inquiry? (2020-11-12)
... that a Jewish girl from Jerusalem became an acclaimed performer of Indian, Javanese, Balinese, and other ethnic dance forms in the United States? (2020-11-11)
... that Yemeni poet Fatima al-Suqutriyya saved the island of Socotra by writing a qasida to Imam al-Ṣalt ibn Mа̄lik requesting military help? (2020-11-11)
... that the case of Adelia Silva, an Afro-Uruguayan teacher who was removed from three different schools due to her race, generated national attention and disciplinary action against one of the principals? (2020-11-11)
... that four-term Uruguayan senator Alba Roballo was also an award-winning poet with a rebellious spirit? (2020-11-10)
... that Gudrun Schröfel, the longtime choral conductor of the Mädchenchor Hannover and a professor at the Musikhochschule Hannover, received the Lower Saxony State Prize in 2015? (2020-11-09)
... that Saadet İkesus Altan studied music in Berlin, performed as a mezzo-soprano in Germany, and became the first female vocal coach and opera director in Turkey after her return home in 1941? (2020-11-08)
... that World War II veteran Millie Bailey went skydiving to celebrate her 102nd birthday? (2020-11-08)
... that after working to desegregate nursing in the US, Alma John (pictured) produced the 1970s television show Black Pride, interviewing prominent figures like Rosa Parks and Ella Fitzgerald? (2020-11-08)
... that African-American contralto Marian Anderson (pictured) was denied permission by the Daughters of the American Revolution to sing at Constitution Hall in 1939, prompting thousands of its members to resign? (2020-11-07)
... that Turkish voice actress Adalet Cimcoz opened and curated her country's first and only woman-owned private art gallery? (2020-11-06)
... that at age 102, Beatrice Lumpkin, a union organizer and lifelong member of the Communist Party, donned hazmat suit–style gear to drop off her vote-by-mail ballot for the US elections? (2020-11-05)
... that Ann Bedsole, the first woman to be elected to the Alabama Senate, printed a timetable for the state's hunting season on the back of her re-election campaign flyers? (2020-11-05)
... that Agnes Stavenhagen was the soprano soloist in the first performance of Mahler's Second Symphony in Munich, conducted by the composer? (2020-11-05)
... that actress and dancer Raissa Gourevitch performed in surrealist plays before becoming an archaeological authority on Roman statuary? (2020-11-04)
... that Paula Bataona Renyaan was the first woman to become a vice governor and the third woman to become a police general in Indonesia? (2020-11-04)
... that the French painter Genskof is a pioneer in laser eye surgery? (2020-11-04)
... that Mary Dee (pictured), a popular radio personality in Pittsburgh, Baltimore, and Philadelphia, is widely regarded as the first African-American woman disc jockey in the United States? (2020-11-03)
... that Indonesian Navy officer Louise Elisabeth Coldenhoff described her tenure as head of the personnel section as "living between angels and devils"? (2020-11-03)
... that Ita Maximowna, who trained as a painter in Paris and Berlin in the 1920s, began working in scenic and costume design after World War II and went on to work internationally? (2020-11-03)
... that Ethel Maynard was the first black woman elected to the Arizona State Legislature? (2020-11-03)
... that Filipina soldier and spy Josefina Guerrero, diagnosed with leprosy, created intelligence reports that helped the Americans defeat the Japanese at Manila Harbor? (2020-11-02)
... that Dilys Price, the world's oldest female solo parachute jumper, made more than 1,130 solo jumps before selling her parachute at age 86? (2020-11-02)
... that cricketer Charlotte Taylor was the top wicket-taker in the Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy, despite not being initially picked in the squads for the tournament? (2020-11-01)
... that Taneko Suzuki, an expert in protein chemistry, led the development of a fish-based product that had the texture of hamburger and could be seasoned to taste like beef? (2020-10-31)
... that Katrin Lea Tag, named the 2020 Scenic Designer of the Year, created sets and costumes for Die Schutzbefohlenen (production pictured) at the Burgtheater, and for Barrie Kosky's Salome at Oper Frankfurt? (2020-10-29)
... that designs by nail artist Jenny Bui have become part of Cardi B's signature look? (2020-10-29)
... that horn player Helen Kotas Hirsch began performing with the Woman's Symphony Orchestra of Chicago at the age of 14? (2020-10-28)
... that the Sahrawi refugee poet Al Khadra has written poems intended to inspire military revolution, including criticism of the Moroccan Western Sahara Wall? (2020-10-27)
... that the children's picture book Julián is a Mermaid was initially going to be about drag balls, until the author learned about the meaning of mermaids to transgender people? (2020-10-26)
... that Ann Oakley published the first sociological research that shows housework as being actual work? (2020-10-22)
... that Kathy Karpan was the first female director of the Office of Surface Mining? (2020-10-20)
... that actress Gloria Swanson created an inventions and patents company to employ refugee scientists whom she and her former husband Marquis Henry de La Falaise (both pictured) helped escape Nazi Germany? (2020-10-20)
... that Wiebke Lehmkuhl was the alto soloist in Beethoven's Ninth Symphony at the 2017 opening of the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg? (2020-10-19)
... that the 8th-century Chinese poet Niu Yingzhen was reportedly able to learn texts by dreaming that she ate the actual copies, then discussed them with deceased male scholars? (2020-10-19)
... that cricketer Issy Wong can solve a Rubik's Cube in seconds? (2020-10-15)
... that Turkey women's national footballer Berivan İçen scored 11 goals in a girls' under-13 league match that ended 15–0 for her team? (2020-10-14)
... that soprano Ilse Helling-Rosenthal, her husband, and two others formed a vocal ensemble that appeared as the soloists in Bruckner's Te Deum at the Leipzig Gewandhaus in 1920? (2020-10-13)
... that state representative Angela Russell introduced legislation to recognize Martin Luther King Jr. Day in Montana? (2020-10-13)
... that the American tubist Constance Weldon "fell in love with the tuba" after her father bought one home from a pawn shop? (2020-10-12)
... that Büşra Kuru, who began playing football every day at age six encouraged by her footballer brother, is a member of a German club and of the Turkey national team? (2020-10-11)
... that Anna Tifu, a violinist from Cagliari, Sardinia, who won the 2007 George Enescu International Competition, plays a 1716 Stradivarius? (2020-10-11)
... that a prominent obituary of Socorro Sánchez, the first feminist journalist in the Dominican Republic, criticized her as "manly" and too political? (2020-10-10)
... that Austrian-born Turkish footballer Dilan Yeşim Taşkın became a member of the Turkey women's national team although she initially wanted to play for the Austrian nationals? (2020-10-07)
... that Myint Myint Khin, a professor at the Institute of Medicine, Mandalay, and a WHO consultant, published her first English-language poetry collection at age 89? (2020-10-04)
... that mezzo-soprano Marina de Gabaráin appeared as Bizet's Carmen in Scotland, and as Rossini's La Cenerentola in Glyndebourne in 1952, recorded the following year? (2020-10-03)
... that scientist Emma Teeling of the BatLab in Dublin studies a genus of bats which do not appear to die of old age? (2020-10-03)
... that The Lodger, released in 1913, was the first novelization of the serial killer known as Jack the Ripper? (2020-10-02)
... that when Annette Jahns portrayed Bettina von Arnim in an opera by Friedrich Schenker, the role required her to scream as well as sing? (2020-10-02)
... that American volunteer civilian physician Beulah Ream Allen (pictured, right) survived three Japanese internment camps in the Philippines during World War II? (2020-09-29)
... that when Turkish singer Hamiyet Yüceses lamentingly sang an Ottoman classical song after her husband's death in a submarine accident, many people thought she had composed the song herself? (2020-09-28)
... that during the Second World War, Abkhazian female pilot Meri Avidzba flew 477 combat sorties and dropped 63,000 tonnes of bombs onto the enemy? (2020-09-27)
... that early vocational-education advocate Mary Schenck Woolman (pictured) obtained her first teaching position as a result of her "harsh" review of a sewing manual? (2020-09-25)
... that after contralto Florence Wickham made her debut in Germany, she was engaged for an American tour as Kundry in Wagner's Parsifal? (2020-09-23)
... that Theresa Plummer-Andrews sorted Bob the Builder's budget? (2020-09-22)
... that Kathy Arendsen had a windmill fastball pitch timed at 96 miles per hour (154 km/h)? (2020-09-22)
... that Hildegard Uhrmacher, a coloratura soprano who appeared as Mozart's Konstanze and Bernd Alois Zimmermann's Marie, titled her 2006 autobiography Hilde, du schaffst das (Hilde, you'll manage)? (2020-09-22)
... that Nellie Weekes ran for public office even before women received the right to vote in Barbados? (2020-09-21)
... that some works by the Baltic-German writer Laura Marholm were part of "feminist literary criticism", known as gynocriticism, 70 years before the term was coined? (2020-09-21)
... that West Virginia State College professor Angie Turner King was an educator and mentor to entomologist Margaret S. Collins and NASA mathematician Katherine Johnson of Hidden Figures? (2020-09-21)
... that child actress Melinda Plowman (pictured), who appeared in many early television shows, was one of the original Mouseketeers? (2020-09-18)
... that Melati Suryodarmo went viral after dancing on butter? (2020-09-16)
... that Alex Anderson became interested in quilting after finishing her grandmother's quilt, which had been started decades earlier, for a college credit? (2020-09-16)
... that the current Kenyan National Assembly is made up of 290 constituency elected members including Samuel Arama, 47 county woman representatives including Gladys Boss Shollei and Sabina Wanjiru Chege, and 12 appointed members including Dennitah Ghati? (2020-09-15)
... that the gravestone of Semahat Özdenses, a singer and composer of Ottoman classical music, was erected seven years after her death? (2020-09-13)
... that Johanna André, who appeared in dramatic soprano roles such as Wagner's Isolde, took part in the 1882 world premiere of Parsifal? (2020-09-11)
... that when Tejano singer Lydia Mendoza (pictured) was a child returning to Texas with her parents in 1920, border agents immersed her and other Mexican children in gasoline baths? (2020-09-10)
... that stuntwoman Betty Danko earned $35 for riding the Wicked Witch's smoke-spewing broomstick in the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz, and was hospitalized for eleven days after it exploded on her? (2020-09-10)
... that LaNada War Jack, a leader of the Third World Strike at UC Berkeley and the Occupation of Alcatraz during her student days, is today a distinguished professor of Native law and governance? (2020-09-09)
... that Mübeccel Argun, a Turkish-language presenter for the BBC World Service in London for 25 years, was formerly a physical-education teacher and one of the first female athletes in her country? (2020-09-05)
... that Mary Haʻaheo Atcherley was allowed to stand as a candidate for a seat in the senate of the Territory of Hawaii in 1920, but was legally prevented from holding the office if she won? (2020-09-05)
... that multimedia artist Suki Seokyeong Kang paints a gouache painting every day as part of her work? (2020-09-03)
... that Stella Immanuel claims that space alien DNA is used in medical treatments, that reptilians run the United States government, and that she uses hydroxychloroquine to cure COVID-19? (2020-09-02)
... that Laguna Pueblo educator Susie Rayos Marmon was the inspiration for a character in her grandniece Leslie Marmon Silko's book Storyteller? (2020-08-31)
... that executed arsonist Margaret Clark blamed her deeds on "pride and Sabbath breaking"? (2020-08-31)
... that Chopin's mother was his first music teacher, but his musical ability surpassed hers before he was seven? (2020-08-29)
... that the Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy, which starts today, was created to allow English domestic women's cricket to be played in spite of the COVID-19 pandemic? (2020-08-29)
... that Greek-Turkish singer Eftalya Işılay earned her nickname "Efthalia the Mermaid" for singing on a rowboat in the Bosphorus during full-moon nights in summer? (2020-08-25)
... that Belva Cottier proposed and took part in the first occupation of Alcatraz in 1964 to claim the island for the Sioux? (2020-08-24)
... that Jeanne Givens was the first Native American woman elected to the Idaho House of Representatives? (2020-08-22)
... that Helen Ballard was a hellebore horticulturist? (2020-08-21)
... that when Georgia was given Rhodes Hall as a state archives building, the donor asked that it always be occupied, so state historian Ruth Blair (pictured) moved into the house herself? (2020-08-19)
... that Yin May, the first Burmese obstetrician, founded and ran the country's main maternity hospital during the Japanese occupation of Burma? (2020-08-18)
... that a 1902 magazine article called Helene Odilon "currently the greatest actress in Germany"? (2020-08-18)
... that linguist Esther T. Mookini translated many works of 19th-century native Hawaiians, including the 1838 Anatomia, the only medical textbook written in the Hawaiian language? (2020-08-18)
... that Mary Clarke raised eight children and managed an estate whilst corresponding by letter with philosopher John Locke? (2020-08-16)
... that in the 1700s, Helen Hope turned a Scottish moor into a wood and named it after her eldest son? (2020-08-16)
... that South African forward Letago Madiba started playing football at the age of five in the streets of her hometown, and was the only female footballer in her school? (2020-08-15)
... that the Turkish women's league seasons of 2019–20 football and 2020 rugby sevens were named to commemorate Özge Kanbay, a football referee and rugby player, who died in 2019 at age 22 from cancer? (2020-08-14)
... that the statue A Surge of Power (Jen Reid) 2020 was inspired by a raised fist at a Black Lives Matter protest? (2020-08-12)
... that Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Julia Collier Harris was present at both the signing of the Treaty of Versailles in 1919 and the Scopes Trial in 1925? (2020-08-11)
... that a short film made by Samantha Buck and Marie Schlingmann at university was screened at both the Telluride Film Festival and South by Southwest? (2020-08-09)
... that after reading a book by Katharine Lee, D. H. Lawrence began to use the phoenix as his personal emblem? (2020-08-08)
... that as Federal Commissioner for Foreigners in the 1980s, German politician Liselotte Funcke (pictured) saw her role as an "interpreter" of the problems of foreign workers, especially Turks? (2020-08-06)
... that women in the U.S. Virgin Islands did not gain suffrage until after Edith L. Williams attempted to register to vote in 1935? (2020-08-06)
... that ornithologist Corina Newsome and herpetologist Earyn McGee held events as part of the inaugural Black Birders Week, an effort to highlight the challenges faced by Black nature enthusiasts? (2020-08-05)
... that Augustine Waworuntu, the first woman mayor of Manado, had her official residence in a hotel built of bamboo? (2020-08-05)
... that Hilda Gregg published a novel every year for three decades? (2020-08-04)
... that Georgia Adams is the captain of the Sussex Women cricket team, and her father Chris is a former captain of the Sussex men's team? (2020-08-04)
... that Ann Smith was described as a "a great fomentor of plots"? (2020-08-03)
... that educator Agnes Samuelson was posthumously inducted into the Iowa Women's Hall of Fame and had a Des Moines elementary school named after her? (2020-08-01)
... that Emma Lamb was part of the Lancashire Women cricket team that in 2017 won both the Women's County Championship and the Counties Twenty20 competition? (2020-07-31)
... that the English philanthropist Miss James has both a footpath and a footbridge named after her? (2020-07-30)
... that the Wrens of the Curragh group of sex workers (members depicted) lived in "nests" hollowed from the ground near Curragh Camp in the 19th century? (2020-07-29)
... that Nerine Barrett, one of the few black women to have achieved international recognition as a classical pianist, first performed on Radio Jamaica for her third birthday? (2020-07-29)
... that Priscilla Johnson McMillan is the only individual who personally knew both President John F. Kennedy and his assassin Lee Harvey Oswald? (2020-07-27)
... that Anna Gifty Opoku-Agyeman co-founded the Sadie Collective, which aims to increase representation of black women in economics and other quantitative fields? (2020-07-27)
... that pedlar Joan Dant died a millionaire? (2020-07-26)
... that dancer Alicia Graf Mack completed a history degree in Columbia University while recovering from ankylosing spondylitis? (2020-07-26)
... that Portuguese HIV researcher Odette Ferreira flew from Lisbon to Paris with test tubes of blood in her coat to maintain the right temperature for testing at the Pasteur Institute? (2020-07-25)
... that in 2016, LGBT and women's rights activist Jayanthi Kuru-Utumpala (pictured) became the first Sri Lankan to summit Mount Everest? (2020-07-24)
... that Antoinette Waroh was the only female member of the Provisional Representative Body, the parliament of East Indonesia? (2020-07-24)
... that in the 1950s, Slovene transgender lawyer and writer Ljuba Prenner used the introduction: "I am Dr. Ljuba Prenner, neither man nor woman"? (2020-07-23)
... that the administrator Winifred Tumim called the state of management where charity trustees had no knowledge of their legal and professional obligations "mad chair disease"? (2020-07-22)
... that Hetty Spiers, who wrote screenplays for silent films as early as 1917, is included on Columbia University's list of "Unhistoricized Women Film Pioneers"? (2020-07-21)
... that Venezuelan sociologist Esther Pineda G popularized the term violencia estética ('aesthetic violence') to describe the damaging pressure on women to respond to prevailing ideas of beauty? (2020-07-20)
... that Angèle Dola Akofa Aguigah demonstrated that the earthworks at Notsé in Togo were used to define separate social spaces, not for defence? (2020-07-18)
... that Seu'ula Johansson-Fua is the keeper of the Kukū Kaunaka Collection, an archive of doctoral and masters dissertations written by Tongan scholars based at universities around the world? (2020-07-17)
... that Leila Hassan edited the journal Race Today and was a member of the British Black Panthers and the Black Unity and Freedom Party? (2020-07-17)
... that although it depicts an indigenous goddess, the statue María Lionza is deliberately located in the middle of a highway? (2020-07-15)
... that author and performance artist Junauda Petrus originally wanted to be an astronaut, but is now a "pleasure activist"? (2020-07-15)
... that the musicologist Ulrike Liedtke, who founded and directed the Rheinsberg Music Academy, became president of the Brandenburg state parliament in 2019? (2020-07-14)
... that neuroscientist Michela Gallagher's research group showed that the epilepsy drug levetiracetam is a candidate to reduce mild cognitive impairment in patients with Alzheimer's disease? (2020-07-14)
... that Seraph Young Ford was the first American woman to cast a vote under a women's equal-suffrage law? (2020-07-13)
... that husband and wife Ralf and Kristin Bochröder both won their 1975 Berlin Marathon races, the only couple to have done so? (2020-07-12)
... that Connie Carberg, the NFL's first female scout, made mock drafts as a hobby while growing up? (2020-07-12)
... that King Carlos I of Portugal often donated the game shot during his hunts to a soup kitchen founded by Maria Luísa de Sousa Holstein? (2020-07-09)
... that film producer Sue Bruce-Smith was credited with the success of Oscar-winning films including 12 Years a Slave, The Favourite, Room, and Slumdog Millionaire? (2020-07-02)
... that Dawn Aponte became the highest-ranked woman in NFL football operations when she was appointed chief administrator in June 2017? (2020-06-30)
... that Danielle Lessovitz found respite in New York's ball culture after her father's suicide, later setting her first feature film, Port Authority, within it? (2020-06-25)
... that Canadian soccer player Christabel Oduro is the cousin of Dominic Oduro, who has played for Ghana? (2020-06-23)
... that Mexican professional wrestler Chabela Romero had a feud with Irma González that played out across eight years and in three countries? (2020-06-23)
... that Lady Henrietta Berkeley (pictured) had an affair with her older sister's husband, claimed in court to have married his servant, and then fled with both of them to Cleves? (2020-06-22)
... that Swedish ballerina Nikisha Fogo's parents owned the first hip-hop dance school in Sweden? (2020-06-20)
... that Layla Saad's 2020 book Me and White Supremacy originated from an Instagram challenge? (2020-06-19)
... that both the white-bellied woolly mouse opossum and the Fernando Po swift are named after the British architectural historian and philanthropist Constance Sladen? (2020-06-17)
... that Walkiria Terradura (pictured) was a member of the Italian resistance movement during World War II and a specialist in blowing up bridges? (2020-06-16)
... that Tilly Bébé (pictured), a pioneer in the docile training of predators, starred with her lions in a silent film of a genre described as "exotic-erotic-escapist"? (2020-06-14)
... that Fannie Flagg set her 2010 comedy-mystery novel I Still Dream About You in Birmingham, Alabama, because she wanted "to write a Valentine to my hometown"? (2020-06-13)
... that the University of Cologne awards an annual gender equality prize in honor of Jenny Gusyk, who became the school's first female and first foreign student when it was re-established in 1919? (2020-06-12)
... that Ottilie Baader was one of the founders of the first trade union organization for women in Germany? (2020-06-11)
... that Yinka Jegede-Ekpe, the first Nigerian woman to go public with her HIV-positive status, later gave birth to a healthy, HIV-negative baby girl? (2020-06-08)
... that Julie Sauvé has coached Canadian, Brazilian, and Singaporean synchronized-swimming teams? (2020-06-05)
... that the veterinarian Janina Oyrzanowska-Poplewska, whose work led to the creation of the first Polish canine distemper vaccine, has been honored as a Righteous Among the Nations? (2020-06-05)
... that Ipsita Biswas led the team that developed less-lethal plastic bullets for crowd control in Jammu and Kashmir? (2020-06-02)
... that in 2015, Eva Asderaki became the first woman to umpire a men's US Open tennis final? (2020-05-30)
... that Hawaiian princess Likelike (pictured) died under mysterious circumstances in 1887 amid rumors that she had been malevolently "prayed" to death? (2020-05-26)
... that Dalma Iványi has won ten Hungarian women's basketball championships and played for three teams in the WNBA? (2020-05-26)
... that during the rule of the Greek military junta, archaeologist and museum curator Semni Karouzou was banned from conducting research in the National Archaeological Museum because of her political views? (2020-05-24)
... that Carol Brightman first gained inspiration for her book Sweet Chaos from her younger sister, who worked as the Grateful Dead's lighting director and literary agent? (2020-05-23)
... that Hege Lanes Steinlund is believed to have officiated more international football matches than any other Norwegian referee? (2020-05-20)
... that Turkish female international sailing competitor Ecem Güzel has finished in the top three of a competition five times in the last seven years? (2020-05-20)
... that Charity Anderson and her contemporary-dance partner Andres Peñate earned the first perfect score on a routine in the history of World of Dance? (2020-05-19)
... that Barbara H. Bowman was one of the scientists who discovered the genetic difference responsible for variations in haptoglobin, a human blood protein? (2020-05-19)
... that musical theatre actress Kitty Loftus was praised as "a tricky sprite and a fantastic elf"? (2020-05-15)
... that investigative journalist Jessica Lussenhop has written articles on corruption in the standardized-testing industry, and the murders and disappearances of Indigenous women? (2020-05-15)
... that the wet nurse of Louis Joseph, Dauphin of France, was named Madame Poitrine, which can be translated as 'Madame Bosom'? (2020-05-15)
... that Princess María Teresa of Bourbon-Parma was nicknamed the "Red Princess" because of her socialist activism? (2020-05-14)
... that Selin Şahin is the first Turkish women's wheelchair basketball player to be transferred to a foreign club? (2020-05-13)
... that with her victory at the 2001 Women's World Snooker Championship, Lisa Quick became the first person to win world titles in both pool and snooker? (2020-05-12)
... that Kalavati Devi (pictured) has built 4,000 toilets so that people in Kanpur would not be subjected to a "living hell"? (2020-05-11)
... that Julia Azari has shown that U.S. presidents increasingly defend their legitimacy by claiming to have a political mandate? (2020-05-10)
... that in 2001, sixteen-year-old Alina Lebedeva struck Prince Charles of the United Kingdom in the face with three red carnations? (2020-05-09)
... that after twelve medical schools rejected her applications, partly because of her gender, U.S. congresswoman Patsy Mink (pictured) became a lawyer instead? (2020-05-06)
... that Judy McClintock and her brother Joel were the first pair of siblings to win Water Ski World Championship titles? (2020-05-06)
... that Charlotte Figi, a child who used cannabidiol to treat seizures caused by Dravet syndrome, had a medical cannabis strain named after her? (2020-05-06)
... that Zofia Nehringowa set speed-skating world records in all individual distances? (2020-05-04)
... that Renate Brümmer (pictured) and Heike Walpot were the only two women originally selected for the German astronaut team, but neither has gone to space? (2020-05-04)
... that an estimated 3 million women and children in the United States were wearing clothing made from feed sacks (example pictured) at any given time during World War II? (2020-05-03)
... that businesswoman Jayne Spain hired one physically handicapped individual in every ten employees she chose? (2020-05-01)
... that Sallyanne Payton, Stanford Law School's first African-American graduate, served as an adviser for the Clinton Health Care Reform Task Force? (2020-04-30)
... that at the age of seventeen, Tiger King subject Carole Baskin used llamas for a lawn-trimming business? (2020-04-29)
... that Willa Brown's efforts to train African-American pilots in the United States led to the creation of the Tuskegee Airmen? (2020-04-28)
... that the formation of Wellesley College's Albright Institute was announced by former U.S. secretary of state Madeleine Albright (pictured) at her class's 50-year reunion? (2020-04-28)
... that Dorothy Horrell, Chancellor of the University of Colorado Denver, credits her experience in a 4-H farm youth exchange program in Taiwan for developing her ideas on leadership and community? (2020-04-28)
... that Naomi Munakata, who began singing in a choir at the age of seven, served as the choral conductor of the Orquestra Sinfônica do Estado de São Paulo from 1995 to 2013? (2020-04-27)
... that Milagros Benet de Mewton, a US citizen, fought for women's suffrage to be extended to Puerto Rico because the 19th Amendment did not apply to US unincorporated territories? (2020-04-26)
... that Elisabeth Lindermeier sang in performances of Wagner's Ring cycle at the Royal Opera House in London, conducted by her husband Rudolf Kempe and recorded in 1957? (2020-04-25)
... that Kathleen Pelham Burn, Countess of Drogheda, was nicknamed "The Flying Countess" because of her involvement with early aviation? (2020-04-21)
... that Sylvia Rose Ashby, an Australian market researcher, was once threatened with arrest if she did not stop surveying popular opinion on the Second World War? (2020-04-20)
... that nephrologist and cellist Leah Lowenstein, an advocate for women in medicine, was the first female dean of a co-educational medical school in the United States? (2020-04-20)
... that Kateryna Skarzhynska founded Ukraine's first private museum, housing archaeological artifacts, scientific books, and her collection of more than 2,100 Ukrainian Easter eggs (examples pictured)? (2020-04-19)
... that American journalist Bessie Van Vorst (depicted) worked undercover at a pickle factory and other worksites to expose labor conditions for women and children in the early 1900s? (2020-04-17)
... that soprano and voice teacher Henny Wolff performed lieder by Hermann Reutter at the inaugural Ferienkurse für internationale neue Musik in Darmstadt in 1946, with the composer at the piano? (2020-04-16)
... that United States Supreme Court justice John Paul Stevens cited political scientist Kristin Goss in a case related to gun control? (2020-04-15)
... that Maria van Pallaes allowed both Catholics and Protestants to live in her almshouses, which was unusual for the time? (2020-04-14)
... that International Boxing Federation flyweight world champion Leonela Paola Yúdica won a house in a raffle? (2020-04-14)
... that Dutch soprano Jo Vincent appeared in Willem Mengelberg's 1939 recording of Bach's St Matthew Passion, and in the world premiere of Britten's Spring Symphony in 1949? (2020-04-10)
... that Japanese voice actress Rei Matsuzaki wrote a newspaper sports column on the Tokyo Yakult Swallows baseball team? (2020-04-07)
... that British windsurfer Emma Wilson won the under-15 Techno 293 World Championships at the age of 12? (2020-04-07)
... that although Constance Kies was a nutrition scientist, she majored in English, and minored in history, geography, library science, and home economics? (2020-04-07)
... that La Dama Enmascarada became the first female professional wrestler in Mexico to be forced to unmask when she lost a Lucha de Apuestas match to Irma González in 1958? (2020-04-06)
... that Alice Birch's play Revolt. She Said. Revolt Again. was inspired by Valerie Solanas's SCUM Manifesto? (2020-04-05)
... that Nigerian-American Christian hip hop artist Wande became interested in rapping after her biology teacher allowed her to compose a rap about cellular transport? (2020-04-04)
... that Maria Josep Colomer i Luque (pictured) became Catalonia's first female pilot at 17 years old, and had flown thousands of Republicans out of Francoist Spain by the end of the Spanish Civil War? (2020-03-31)
... that Irish folklorist Bríd Mahon wrote the first of her hundreds of radio scripts for Radio Éireann as a child, discussing the history and music of County Cork? (2020-03-31)
... that English judoka Samantha Lowe was selected, then deselected, then reselected for the 2002 Commonwealth Games, and went on to win a gold medal? (2020-03-30)
... that soprano Jessye Norman (pictured), whose voice was described as a "grand mansion of sound", performed at U.S. presidential inaugurations and sang La Marseillaise at the French Revolution's bicentennial? (2020-03-29)
... that at the age of 10, Sky Brown became the youngest professional skateboarder in the world? (2020-03-28)
... that Mary Taylor Brush filed a 1917 patent (drawing shown) for a design to make aircraft "practically invisible when in the air"? (2020-03-28)
... that librarian Megan Rosenbloom (pictured), an expert in anthropodermic bibliopegy, can determine if a book is bound in human skin? (2020-03-27)
... that political scientist Elizabeth Theiss-Morse has written a book on the flexibility of the American national identity? (2020-03-27)
... that while studying dance, Anca Giurchescu joined the Romanian national shooting team and won individual and team medals at the 1955 European Shooting Championships? (2020-03-27)
... that the song "I've danced with a man, who's danced with a girl, who's danced with the Prince of Wales" was inspired by Edna Deane being asked for a dance nine times by the future Edward VIII? (2020-03-25)
... that Odile Pierre, who became interested in the organ at a recital by Marcel Dupré at the age of seven, later served as the organist of La Madeleine in Paris and played around 2,000 recitals herself? (2020-03-22)
... that nuclear scientist Clarice Phelps has been recognized as the first African-American woman to be involved with the discovery of a chemical element? (2020-03-22)
... that psychologist Susan Folkman coined the terms "problem-focused coping" and "emotion-focused coping"? (2020-03-21)
... that at the age of 11, Gabrielle Reidy made her first appearance at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin? (2020-03-20)
... that Llerena Friend, the first director of the Barker Center for Texas History, lived in 24 different homes during her youth? (2020-03-19)
... that Jan Yager's artwork American Ruff (pictured) is made from discarded crack-cocaine vials and caps? (2020-03-19)
... that Mayerlin Rivas held World Boxing Association world championship titles in both bantamweight and super bantamweight classes? (2020-03-18)
... that Eva Lee Kuney (pictured) was one of the children used to fill out the background of Munchkin scenes in the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz? (2020-03-18)
... that the Irish Central Committee for the Employment of Women, which operated from 1914 to 1919, paid Irish women the same as their British counterparts? (2020-03-17)
... that Latvian folklorist Anna Bērzkalne wrote her 1942 doctoral thesis in English instead of German as a form of non-violent resistance to the Nazi occupation of Latvia during World War II? (2020-03-17)
... that boxer Angélique Duchemin was an undefeated French, European, and world champion? (2020-03-16)
... that Frieda Caplan, a pioneer of the specialty-produce industry in the U.S., introduced the kiwifruit to the American market? (2020-03-15)
... that production designer Kristi Zea created the visual imagery for The Silence of the Lambs, including a scene that the script described only as "a snapshot from hell"? (2020-03-14)
... that in 2019, Japanese voice actress Midori Katō earned a Guinness World Record for having voiced the same character in the anime Sazae-san for 50 years and a day? (2020-03-12)
... that a course in Spanish North American history that Nettie Lee Benson took at the University of Texas inspired her lifelong interest in teaching and building libraries for Latin American studies? (2020-03-11)
... that Mary Helen Johnston (pictured) was awarded the NASA Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal before being selected as an astronaut, but has never gone into space? (2020-03-11)
... that former slave Dorothy Thomas purchased her own manumission, but later employed slaves as hucksters? (2020-03-09)
... that Belgian teacher and physician Marie Rennotte (pictured) became a women's rights activist in Brazil? (2020-03-08)
... that Judith Liberman learned storytelling in a French commune at the age of 14, and has gone on to reintroduce the telling of Anatolian fairy tales in Turkey? (2020-03-08)
... that the 2005 BBC documentary Dead Mums Don't Cry follows Grace Kodindo's efforts to stem the maternal mortality rate in Chad, where pregnant and childbearing women had a 9 per cent chance of dying? (2020-03-08)
... that boxing World Youth champion Caroline Dubois pretended to be a boy named Colin when she started training? (2020-03-08)
... that Angelina Atyam was awarded the 1998 UN Prize in the Field of Human Rights for campaigning for the release of captive children, including her own daughter kidnapped by Ugandan guerrillas? (2020-03-08)
... that British Paralympic swimmer Toni Shaw has set a world record in the S9 200 m (660 ft) butterfly at the age of 15? (2020-03-02)
... that Magdalena K. P. Smith Meyer was known as the "mother of red-spider mites of the world"? (2020-03-02)
... that Dorothy Doolittle, winner of the inaugural Chicago Marathon, was later an assistant coach for the U.S. team at the 1992 Summer Olympics? (2020-02-26)
... that in 2016, Alice Dearing became the first British swimmer to win a gold medal at the World Junior Open Water Championships? (2020-02-26)
... that British screenwriter Gaby Chiappe has worked with the Rape Crisis centre in Leeds to develop a storyline about rape? (2020-02-25)
... that Virginia Walker was signed to a Hollywood film contract on the basis of her picture in a magazine advertisement for soap? (2020-02-24)
... that in 2003, a painting by Nazlı Ecevit was hung in the workplace of the Turkish prime minister, an office that her son Bülent Ecevit had previously held? (2020-02-23)
... that Hildegard Heichele, a soprano of the Oper Frankfurt known for performing Mozart roles, appears as Adele on a DVD of Johann Strauss II's Die Fledermaus from the Royal Opera House? (2020-02-23)
... that at the age of 17, Esther Arditi saved a pilot and a navigator from a burning plane? (2020-02-23)
... that after being treated for uterine cancer, Ai Kidosaki taught cooking to hospital employees? (2020-02-23)
... that Nino Tkeshelashvili and other early Georgian feminists campaigned to uphold women's "moral standards", labeling prostitution a "social evil"? (2020-02-22)
... that fashion historian Caroline Weber discovered two lost essays by Marcel Proust while researching one of her books? (2020-02-22)
... that it was reportedly Elizabeth Willing Powel (pictured) who asked Benjamin Franklin whether the United States was to be "a republic or a monarchy", to which he responded: "A republic ... if you can keep it"? (2020-02-21)
... that the coloratura soprano Julia Bauer played five roles in Der Ring in Minden, including her on-stage portrayal of the Forest Bird in Siegfried? (2020-02-19)
... that in the 1830s, a Mère in Lyon, France, became famous for her creation Tétons de Venus ('Venus's Breasts'), a dish of giant dumplings that was popular at bachelor parties? (2020-02-18)
... that Lisa Cristiani was the first European to hold public musical concerts in Siberia? (2020-02-18)
... that Anoosh Masood Chaudhry completed a medical degree before entering law enforcement and becoming an assistant superintendent of police? (2020-02-16)
... that while other 1978 Chicago Marathon runners complained the late start meant finishing in 80 °F (27 °C) heat, winner Lynae Larson was concerned about its effect on her six-hour drive home? (2020-02-15)
... that Elke Heidenreich, two-time winner of the Grimme television award, wrote the book Nero Corleone featuring a tomcat as the bullying protagonist? (2020-02-15)
... that Carlos Vives once invited Paraguayan violinist Ana Lucrecia Taglioretti to play with him on stage after she tried to sneak into his concert without a ticket? (2020-02-15)
... that neuroscientist Kate Jeffery correctly predicted that her postdoctoral advisor John O'Keefe would win a Nobel Prize in 2014? (2020-02-14)
... that Elin C. Danien, an expert on ancient Maya ceramics, claimed that "archaeology is the most fun you can have with your pants on"? (2020-02-12)
... that gerontologist Elaine Brody used the term "women in the middle" to refer to women who care for their elderly parents while raising their children? (2020-02-11)
... that different versions of the song "Danzen! Futari wa Pretty Cure" by Mayumi Gojo were used in the first two seasons and the 25th movie of the Pretty Cure anime franchise? (2020-02-09)
... that Iranian women's rights activist Mastoureh Afshar organized the second Eastern Women's Congress, held in Tehran in 1932, which drew delegates from Afghanistan to Zanzibar? (2020-02-08)
... that Esther Lurie (pictured) used photographs of drawings to reconstruct most of her artwork that did not survive World War II? (2020-02-08)
... that at the time of her retirement in 2008, Florida State Seminoles coach JoAnne Graf held the record for most wins in the history of NCAA Division I softball? (2020-02-06)
... that archaeologist Winifred Lamb had previously worked in Room 40, the Royal Navy's cryptanalysis section, during World War I? (2020-02-04)
... that mathematician Pamela E. Harris co-founded the online platform Lathisms to promote Hispanic and Latino American participation in mathematics? (2020-02-02)
... that Mary Gordon, the first British female prison inspector, once forestalled recidivism by supplying men's clothes and a train fare to South Wales to a female inmate who wanted to live as a man? (2020-02-02)
... that Gabriela Rodríguez de Bukele, the current first lady of El Salvador, is the first person in the country to hold a doctorate in prenatal psychology? (2020-01-26)
... that Yukari Miyake joined the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force to realize her dream of singing on stage? (2020-01-25)
... that Austrian neurologist Adele Juda concluded that Mozart was "psychiatrically normal"? (2020-01-24)
... that Wanjira Mathai aims to continue the work of her mother, Nobel Peace Prize–winning environmentalist Wangari Maathai, by restoring 12.6 million acres (5.1 million hectares) of Kenyan land by 2030? (2020-01-23)
... that fashion model Kesewa Aboah is descended from British nobility? (2020-01-23)
... that producer Orla Doherty spent 500 hours underwater in a submarine during her work on Blue Planet II? (2020-01-21)
... that Jutta Hering-Winckler, a lawyer from Minden whose grandfather saw the premiere of Wagner's Ring cycle, "made the impossible possible" by organizing Der Ring in Minden? (2020-01-21)
... that Dehenna Davison is Bishop Auckland's first Conservative member of Parliament since the constituency's creation in 1885? (2020-01-18)
... that Reema Juffali (pictured in race car) is the first Saudi Arabian woman to obtain a racing license and compete in an international racing event in the country? (2020-01-17)
... that Marilyn Saviola, a polio survivor, attended Long Island University classes remotely by telephone from her hospital ward? (2020-01-17)
... that Lisa Ainsworth leads a project that involves studying plants under atmospheric conditions that are predicted for 2050? (2020-01-16)
... that as the youngest UK Member of Parliament elected in 2019, Nadia Whittome became the Baby of the House? (2020-01-15)
... that Megan Fisher is the first woman with a lower-leg amputation to complete an XTERRA off-road triathlon? (2020-01-14)
... that evolutionary biologist Rebecca Kilner has found that mites can give burying beetles a competitive advantage? (2020-01-13)
... that Chelsea McClammer (pictured) was the youngest member of Team USA's track-and-field team at the 2008 Summer Paralympics? (2020-01-13)
... that Eleanor Vadala (pictured), the third woman in the U.S. to receive FAA certification as a balloon pilot, also studied and repaired balloons, and drove chase cars after them? (2020-01-12)
... that Bessie S. McColgin, the first woman elected to the Oklahoma House of Representatives, was seen as a "superior orator"? (2020-01-12)
... that Saida Muna Tasneem is the first woman to hold the positions of Bangladeshi high commissioner to the United Kingdom, Ireland, and Liberia? (2020-01-10)
... that American coloratura soprano Laura Aikin (pictured), who began her opera career in Berlin, appeared as Marie in Zimmermann's Die Soldaten at the 2012 Salzburg Festival? (2020-01-10)
... that newly appointed U.S. senator Kelly Loeffler co-owns the women's basketball team Atlanta Dream? (2020-01-06)
... that Christine Duffy, the president of Carnival Cruise Line, was considered too short to become a flight attendant? (2020-01-06)
... that Australian biologist Lee Berger identified Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis as being responsible for the decline and extinction of hundreds of amphibian species? (2020-01-05)
... that when Donnis Thompson was appointed the University of Hawaii's first women's athletic director, she was given a budget of only $5,000? (2020-01-05)
... that space entrepreneur Susmita Mohanty has started companies on three continents? (2020-01-03)
... that in 1975, Donna Tobias became the United States Navy's first female deep-sea diver? (2020-01-01)
... that neuroengineer Maryam Shanechi and her research team developed a method to determine a person's mood from their brain activity? (2019-12-31)
... that Mexican drug lord María Antonieta Rodríguez Mata controlled a drug trafficking ring that extended across Colombia, Guatemala, Mexico, and the U.S.? (2019-12-30)
... that Sally Milgrim designed the dress that Eleanor Roosevelt wore to her husband's first inaugural ball? (2019-12-29)
... that Kiuchi Kyō, believed to be the first Japanese woman to be a school principal, worked to improve the status of women teachers? (2019-12-28)
... that it can take Yvonne Walker Keshick up to a year to gather the porcupine quills and other materials she needs for a particular work of art? (2019-12-27)
... that Liang Baibo and Yu Feng were among China's first female cartoonists? (2019-12-27)
... that Leena Al-Hadid is Jordan's permanent representative to the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe and the United Nations in Vienna? (2019-12-26)
... that Kavya Manyapu led the development of a dust-repelling fabric for space suits using carbon nanotubes? (2019-12-25)
... that Tlingit artist Tanis S'eiltin's mixed-media installation Hit includes video, a replica M16 rifle, and a glass tank of oil and water? (2019-12-24)
... that in 1929 Rosika Schwimmer (pictured), a woman over 50 and thus ineligible to take up arms in the U.S., was denied citizenship by the Supreme Court for pacifism and became stateless? (2019-12-24)
... that French Resistance member Odette Abadi was a co-founder of Réseau Marcel, which saved more than 500 Jewish children during the Holocaust? (2019-12-24)
... that Shen Jilan, who successfully proposed the clause of equal pay for equal work in China's first constitution in 1954, is still serving as a congresswoman 65 years later? (2019-12-22)
... that soprano Irma Beilke appeared as Marzelline in Beethoven's Fidelio on 4 September 1945 in the first opera performance in Berlin after World War II? (2019-12-22)
... that Shiza Shahid and Malala Yousafzai co-founded the Malala Fund in 2013 to promote education for every girl? (2019-12-21)
... that HIV researcher Diane Havlir was the U.S. national short track champion in 1974? (2019-12-20)
... that Sharon Priest, the Secretary of State of Arkansas, launched the state's first internet-based information network in 1995? (2019-12-19)
... that Louie Cullen, known as "the last of the suffragettes", started a prison hunger strike after her arrest for a 1908 attempt to rush into the House of Commons to promote women's right to vote in the UK? (2019-12-19)
... that the pianist Clara Schumann, who toured Europe for decades, taught 68 students at Dr. Hoch's in Frankfurt, including those from Britain and the U.S.? (2019-12-19)
... that Berna Gözbaşı is the first woman president of a football club playing in the Turkish top-level men's league? (2019-12-17)
... that after her own childhood experiences, Carla Herrero founded Rompe el Silencio ("Breaking the Silence") to support youth who have suffered bullying, abuse, and psychological disorders? (2019-12-16)
... that along with her business partners, philanthropist Sara Braun (pictured), one of the first businesswomen in Punta Arenas, Chile, was involved in the genocide of the Selk'nam people? (2019-12-14)
... that Colleen Barrett, the first female president of a major airline, appeared in patriotic advertisements for Southwest Airlines after the September 11 attacks? (2019-12-11)
... that although Elizabeth Richards Tilton (pictured) was a central figure in a six-month-long trial, she was never allowed to speak in court? (2019-12-10)
... that Virginia Kirkus reviewed 16,000 books for her bookshop service between the 1930s and 1960s? (2019-12-08)
... that Gayl King became the first female darts player to compete in the PDC World Darts Championship after the Professional Darts Corporation invited her to play in the 2001 tournament? (2019-12-07)
... that feminist Carole De Saram caused the closure of a Citibank branch? (2019-12-05)
... that Sara Wesslin, featured on the BBC's 100 Women for 2019, is one of only two journalists in the world broadcasting in Skolt Sami? (2019-12-03)
... that Kathrin Göring portrayed both Fricka and Waltraute in Der Ring in Minden, and a critic called her scene in Götterdämmerung a highlight, noting her dramatic mezzo-soprano and intense acting? (2019-12-01)
... that Hedwig Porschütz, who rescued Jews during the Holocaust, was not honoured as an "unsung heroine" in West Berlin because she had been a prostitute? (2019-11-29)
... that Ellie Morrison is the first woman to serve as the national commissioner of the Boy Scouts of America since its incorporation in 1910? (2019-11-29)
... that American politician Safiya Wazir came to Uzbekistan as a refugee from Afghanistan? (2019-11-28)
... that Isabelle Kabatu, a Belgian soprano of African origin, recorded the role of Dolly in Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari's opera Sly alongside José Carreras in the title role? (2019-11-27)
... that Li Yin's paintings (example shown) were so sought after that as many as forty imitators in her area turned out fakes of her work? (2019-11-26)
... that Carolyn F. Ulrich, who began her career with no formal library training, eventually became the chief of the periodicals division at the New York Public Library? (2019-11-26)
... that tropical ecologist Winifred Hallwachs helped develop and expand the Área de Conservación Guanacaste in Costa Rica, which is now a UNESCO World Heritage Site? (2019-11-23)
... that nurse and suffragette Mary Bartlett Dixon helped establish the first hospital in Easton, Maryland? (2019-11-22)
... that during the Apollo 11 program, biomedical engineer Judy Sullivan was instantly identifiable if she made an error as she was the only female voice on NASA's headset link? (2019-11-21)
... that in 2019, Vancity CEO Tamara Vrooman (pictured) received the Order of British Columbia for her contributions to a better quality of life in the province "and beyond"? (2019-11-20)
... that Kurdish civil engineer and politician Hevrin Khalaf, who worked for tolerance among Christians, Arabs, and Kurds, was killed in the 2019 Turkish offensive into Syria? (2019-11-19)
... that Order of Canada recipient Thelma Finlayson was Simon Fraser University's first professor emerita? (2019-11-18)
... that Margaret Lyons, the first female vice president of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, was nicknamed the "Dragon Lady"? (2019-11-15)
... that Anne C. Morel was the first woman to become a full professor of mathematics at the University of Washington? (2019-11-13)
... that Gwendolyne Cowart – the "youngest girl in the south" to obtain a commercial pilot's license – went on to serve as a Women Airforce Service Pilot (WASP) during World War II? (2019-11-11)
... that when Lois Ellen Frank (pictured) first proposed her 2003 James Beard Award–winning cookbook on Native American foods, publishers told her there was no such cuisine? (2019-11-10)
... that Anne L. Stevens disguised herself in order to enroll in the male-only mechanics pit crew at a race track? (2019-11-09)
... that Xia Peisu (pictured), the "mother of computer science" in China, and her husband Yang Liming, who helped explain magic numbers, were elected to the Chinese Academy of Sciences at the same time? (2019-11-06)
... that Hungarian pianists Márta Kurtág and her husband performed together for 60 years, often from his collection entitled Játékok ('Games')? (2019-11-03)
... that an omelette created by Mother Poulard (pictured) is one of the major tourist attractions in Mont-Saint-Michel, France? (2019-11-02)
... that Zdeňka Wiedermannová-Motyčková established the first girls' secondary school in Moravia? (2019-11-01)
... that forensic artists at the University of Dundee used 100-year-old photographs of a skull to digitally recreate the face of an accused witch in Scotland? (2019-10-31)
... that Eagle Woman (pictured) is credited as the only woman to become a chief among the Sioux, and the first woman to sign a treaty with the United States? (2019-10-27)
... that in 2019, Brigham Young University volleyball coach Heather Olmstead held the highest winning percentage of any women's volleyball coach in NCAA Division I history? (2019-10-26)
... that Piera Aiello wore a veil to protect her identity when standing for Italy's Chamber of Deputies because of threats from the mafia? (2019-10-25)
... that after Ruth Darrow's son died from hemolytic disease of the newborn, she was inspired to study the disease, and became the first person to identify its cause? (2019-10-24)
... that Józefa Joteyko believed that wages should be based upon scientific research and the amount of effort required to do a job, rather than arbitrary factors like gender? (2019-10-23)
... that a US$25,000 bounty is offered for Big Momma? (2019-10-23)
... that housing expert Patricia Bagot argued with Colonel Muammar Gaddafi over the quality of housing in Libya? (2019-10-22)
... that medical researcher Shuping Wang may have saved tens of thousands of lives by defying authorities and exposing an HIV/AIDS scandal in China? (2019-10-20)
... that Gujarati writer Rambha Gandhi wrote and participated in more than 400 radio plays? (2019-10-20)
... that 19th-century Scottish heiress and philanthropist Margaret Macpherson Grant died, aged 42, shortly after her female partner had abandoned her to marry a man? (2019-10-16)
... that Nadja Malacrida said in a Vim advertisement that it was "no use having new ideas of decoration if you have old ideas of dirt"? (2019-10-12)
... that choreographer Margaret Barr created more than 80 works (example pictured), inspired by subjects such as Mahatma Gandhi, Margaret Mead, drought, and the Melbourne Cup? (2019-10-09)
... that the red dresses (example pictured) in Jaime Black's REDress Project represent the missing and murdered Indigenous women of Canada and the United States? (2019-10-08)
... that professor of English Alice D. Snyder helped lead the campaign that earned women in New York the right to vote? (2019-10-08)
... that the Women's Defence Relief Corps trained British women to fight during the First World War? (2019-10-04)
... that temperance activist Sarah Robinson visited brothels in an attempt to improve the health of prostitutes and their clients? (2019-10-04)
... that Elizabeth, Lady Echlin, a correspondent of the author, wrote a revised ending to Samuel Richardson's Clarissa in which the rape that was central to the original version is averted? (2019-10-03)
... that Adele Zay successfully led a campaign in 1894 for Transylvanian authorities to recognize kindergarten and handicraft teachers so that they were entitled to pensions? (2019-10-01)
... that Patricia Swallow led the Wrens, served on the Heron, and was vice president of the Royal Naval Bird Watching Society? (2019-09-30)
... that Andrea Ihle performed the role of Ännchen in Weber's opera Der Freischütz in the opening performance of the rebuilt Semperoper in Dresden? (2019-09-28)
... that Semin Öztürk Şener is Turkey's first female professional civilian aerobatic pilot? (2019-09-27)
... that Jeni Bojilova-Pateva became a women's rights activist when she was barred from teaching because she was married? (2019-09-26)
... that Emirati geneticist Habiba Alsafar was named as one of the "100 Most Powerful Arab Women" of 2015? (2019-09-25)
... that after 78-year-old Maggy Hurchalla was ordered to pay US$4 million for interfering with a mining company, her kayaks were seized? (2019-09-22)
... that African-American suffragist Maud E. Craig Sampson Williams was denied membership in the National American Woman Suffrage Association? (2019-09-20)
... that Polish resistance member Alicja Iwańska became an academic and compared political, religious, and racial persecution in Europe to U.S. segregation restrictions? (2019-09-20)
... that Catherine Lutz was the first female general in the Mississippi National Guard? (2019-09-19)
... that during the First World War, the Women's Reserve Ambulance Corps was criticised in the contemporary press for "encroaching too closely on male territory"? (2019-09-18)
... that Ulrike Sonntag, a soprano at the Staatsoper Stuttgart and an academic voice teacher in Stuttgart, recorded an oratorio by Fanny Hensel and psalm settings by Lili Boulanger? (2019-09-17)
... that writer Brigitte Kronauer (pictured), who won the Georg Büchner Prize, the Jean Paul Prize, and the Thomas Mann Prize, was described as both "a master of spite" and having "great kindness"? (2019-09-17)
... that lieder singer and voice teacher Franziska Martienssen-Lohmann's textbook for singers was recommended for general readers interested in "the human instrument"? (2019-09-16)
... that Dorothy Christian Hare was the first woman general physician to be elected a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians? (2019-09-16)
... that Australian astrophysicist Kirsten Banks was inspired to learn about her Wiradjuri heritage while training at the Sydney Observatory? (2019-09-15)
... that during the English Civil War, Katherine Stuart smuggled messages from Charles I to royalist sympathisers in London? (2019-09-15)
... that Canadian dressage rider Tina Irwin was forced to restart after a power outage at the Adequan Global Dressage Festival, and achieved a 2017 world record small tour score on her next attempt? (2019-09-14)
... that Leila Ernst barged into a dance audition to show theatre producer George Abbott that she could sing and dance? (2019-09-12)
... that Doris Bergen holds Canada's only endowed chair in Holocaust history? (2019-09-12)
... that Winnie Quagliotti protested against the Australian Bicentenary by dressing in a possum-skin cloak and throwing a wattle wreath into the sea at Princes Pier? (2019-09-10)
... that Noelle Campbell-Sharp has led the Cill Rialaig project, hosting over 5,000 artists on residencies in County Kerry, Ireland, since 1991? (2019-09-10)
... that Mathea Olin's gold and bronze medals at the 2017 Pan American Surf Games were Canada's first international medals in surfing? (2019-09-10)
... that Jones Bar-B-Q is old school, but Jones Bar-B-Q is an American classic? (2019-09-10)
... that Danish MEP Pernille Weiss is a sexologist? (2019-09-09)
... that comic books by Magdalene Visaggio have been nominated for two Eisner Awards and three GLAAD Media Awards? (2019-09-09)
... that Venezuelan director Patricia Ortega (pictured) has drawn strength from her film Being Impossible during both personal and political upheavals? (2019-09-08)
... that an anti-suffragist threw rocks at Nora Houston as she was giving a speech advocating for women's voting rights, and Houston kept one of the rocks for the rest of her life? (2019-09-07)
... that Ursula Boese, a long-time member of the Hamburgische Staatsoper, appeared as Stravinsky's Iocaste at La Scala, and at the San Francisco Opera in the presence of the composer? (2019-09-06)
... that snooker player Mandy Fisher played whilst pregnant, but lamented that this was more newsworthy than female players' skill? (2019-09-06)
... that Abigail Mbalo-Mokoena's 4Roomed, a restaurant 30 kilometres (19 mi) outside Cape Town in Khayelitsha township, was one of only three in Africa named to a 2019 list of the best in the world? (2019-09-06)
... that Misty Talley, who directed shark horror films for Syfy, edits about five feature film projects at a time? (2019-08-30)
... that African-American educator Jennie Porter refused to let teachers at her all-black school join the NAACP after its local leaders criticized her views on segregation? (2019-08-30)
... that Barbara Zechmeister, who appeared in world premieres at the Oper Frankfurt, portrayed Clarissa in a recorded production of Weber's Die drei Pintos at the 2004 Wexford Festival? (2019-08-30)
... that Turkish television and film actress Serenay Aktaş was once a women's footballer? (2019-08-28)
... that Jill Martin was the only actor to appear in all three West End runs of the musical My Fair Lady? (2019-08-27)
... that Cynthia Whitchurch's discovery of a novel role for DNA in nature is credited with creating a paradigm shift in the study of biofilms? (2019-08-27)
... that when Jessie Grayson played Mrs. Higbee in Cass Timberlane, it was the first time an African-American had been addressed on screen by the honorific "Mrs."? (2019-08-26)
... that every Saturday for decades, Miriam Butterworth protested against wars such as those in Nicaragua, Iran, and Iraq, as well as in opposition to nuclear arms? (2019-08-24)
... that Charity Lamb was the first woman convicted of murder in the Oregon Territory? (2019-08-24)
... that the executive producer of Women of '69, Unboxed was a member of the 1969 all-woman graduating class of Skidmore College, on which the film focuses? (2019-08-23)
... that when Virginia suffragist Anna Whitehead Bodeker was not allowed to cast a ballot in the 1871 municipal election in Richmond, she put a note in the ballot box claiming her right to vote? (2019-08-23)
... that Yvette Lévy (pictured) has returned to the Auschwitz concentration camp more than 200 times with students, to teach them about her experience at the camp where she survived the Holocaust? (2019-08-22)
... that among the musical roles performed by Anke Sieloff at the Musiktheater im Revier are Maria in West Side Story, and a witch in the first German production of The Witches of Eastwick? (2019-08-22)
... that 18-year-old Gerda Hofstätter was given a key to the city of Althofen after winning Austria's first European Pool Championship? (2019-08-20)
... that Thai chef Bo Songvisava was once asked by a visiting foreign chef about Thai food and realized she knew very little about it? (2019-08-20)
... that Christel Boom passed information about NATO exercises to East Germany for the Stasi? (2019-08-19)
... that Sylvia Stoesser was called the "nasal chemist" because she could often identify the ingredients in an unknown laboratory mixture by smelling it? (2019-08-18)
... that Turkish race walker Meryem Bekmez escaped the traditional social practice of child marriage for girls when her athletic abilities were discovered? (2019-08-18)
... that in 1979, fifteen-year-old Laura Michalek became the youngest athlete ever to win the Chicago Marathon? (2019-08-17)
... that the score of the song "Sweet Little Woman o' Mine", composed by Floy Little Bartlett, was played in the 1925 silent film The Big Parade? (2019-08-17)
... that chef Asma Khan's husband is not a fan of her food? (2019-08-17)
... that Suzy Dietrich was part of the first women's team to finish an international-standard 24-hour motor race? (2019-08-16)
... that Anna Eckstein (pictured) dressed in white and collected six million signatures to promote world peace before the First World War? (2019-08-13)
... that Guðrún Björnsdóttir, a 20th-century Icelandic politician and women's rights activist, was at one time a milk vendor? (2019-08-12)
... that Wibke Bruhns (pictured), the first female German television news presenter, was a correspondent for Stern in Jerusalem and wrote the biography of her father, who was executed by the Nazis? (2019-08-10)
... that Karen Saywitz developed "non-leading" techniques for interviewing child witnesses and victims? (2019-08-10)
... that Ina Kaplan was six months pregnant when she won three of the four 2014 German national pool championships? (2019-08-09)
... that Isoldé Elchlepp began her career as a protest song singer and later appeared as Wagner's Ortrud at the Bayreuth Festival and as Schoeck's Penthesilea at the Staatsoper Hannover? (2019-08-06)
... that philanthropist Mary Robinson Foster (pictured) was known as the first Hawaiian Buddhist? (2019-08-05)
... that after Josephine Groves Holloway's petition to form an official Girl Scout troop for African-Americans was rejected, she formed her own troop and encouraged her friends to do the same? (2019-08-04)
... that Mother Berry, a jockey who rode disguised as a man, earned her nickname after she adopted a runaway child? (2019-08-03)
... that Wilhelmine Lübke (pictured, center), who joined her husband, President of West Germany Heinrich Lübke, on more than 50 state visits, was fluent in English, French, Spanish, Italian, and Russian? (2019-08-01)
... that American historian Pamela Nadell traced the origins of the first agitations for a female rabbi to a short story published in 1889? (2019-08-01)
... that Lord Mayor of Birmingham Yvonne Mosquito opened comedian Joe Lycett's kitchen extension? (2019-07-28)
... that Clemantine Wamariya was reunited with her parents on The Oprah Winfrey Show, twelve years after being separated from them during the Rwandan genocide? (2019-07-27)
... that Lilian Benningsen, a singer at the Bavarian State Opera for decades, appeared as Carolina in the world premiere of Henze's Elegie für junge Liebende (Elegy for Young Lovers)? (2019-07-26)
... that Australian theatre director and former chemistry demonstrator May Hollinworth was described as "a wizard with lighting effects"? (2019-07-25)
... that Mandy Moore choreographed La La Land's opening number using 30 dancers, 100 extras, and 60 cars stuck in traffic on a Los Angeles freeway? (2019-07-23)
... that Paula R. Pietromonaco found that attachment styles affect how people think and behave during conflict? (2019-07-22)
... that Maria Magnani Noya was the first woman mayor of Turin and the second woman mayor in Italy? (2019-07-19)
... that sculptor Alice King Chatham used plaster casts to design custom-fitted oxygen masks and helmets for Project Mercury astronauts? (2019-07-19)
... that Robyn Benincasa ran a marathon four months after having surgery for osteoarthritis and being told she might never run again? (2019-07-18)
... that Eleanor C. Pressly helped develop and launch a series of Aerobee rockets during the 1957–1958 International Geophysical Year? (2019-07-17, 2020-07-17)
... that Gao Xiaoxia abandoned her PhD studies to leave America in 1951, just before the US government banned Chinese students from returning home? (2019-07-16)
... that Catherine Despard helped compose the speech that her husband, the ringleader of the Despard Plot, gave at the gallows? (2019-07-15)
... that Joanne Berger-Sweeney is the first African-American and first woman to serve as president of Trinity College, Connecticut? (2019-07-08)
... that Maria Hueber founded the first school for girls in the Tyrol region? (2019-07-05)
... that the German soprano Melanie Diener began her stage career in Mozart roles in 1996, and appeared as Isolde with the Canadian Opera Company and the Opéra national du Rhin in 2013? (2019-07-03)
... that Turkish women's footballer Aslı Canan Sabırlı was appointed technical director of her team while she was still a member of the squad? (2019-07-02, 2019-09-08)
... that the Hungarian coloratura soprano Sylvia Geszty (pictured) was a member of the Berlin State Opera in East Germany before joining the Stuttgart State Opera in the West? (2019-06-28)
... that motorsport official Silvia Bellot was part of the first all-woman panel of stewards in the history of the World Rally Championship at the 2016 Rally Catalunya? (2019-06-27)
... that Canadian journalist Katherine Hughes became Alberta's first provincial archivist, but later became a political activist, fighting for Irish self-determination? (2019-06-24)
... that Diane Holl was the first female race engineer to win a Championship Auto Racing Teams motor race? (2019-06-24)
... that every week Cincinnati's La Soupe turns 5,000 lb (2,300 kg) of rescued food into 3,000 meals for people in need with the help of sixty local chef volunteers? (2019-06-23)
... that while American social media celebrity Olivia Jade said, "I don't really care about school", she applied and was accepted to the University of Southern California? (2019-06-22)
... that silent film actress Fannie Bourke ran a 500-seat "votes for women" movie theatre in New Rochelle, New York? (2019-06-22)
... that Nujeen Mustafa, a teenage Syrian refugee with cerebral palsy, travelled 5,600 kilometres (3,500 mi) in a wheelchair to seek asylum in Germany? (2019-06-20)
... that Naomi Koshi is the youngest woman ever elected mayor of a Japanese city? (2019-06-19)
... that during World War II, Elisabeth Erdmann-Macke safeguarded the paintings of her first husband, August Macke, who portrayed her more than 200 times (example pictured)? (2019-06-17)
... that in 1991, Harue Kitamura became the first woman to be elected mayor of a Japanese city? (2019-06-15)
... that Max Brod reviewed a performance of Ria Thiele, an actress and dancer who played in theatres of Vienna, Berlin and Prague? (2019-06-13)
... that Nepalese student Sangita Magar became a human rights activist after she survived an acid attack at the age of 16? (2019-06-12)
... that Ruth-Margret Pütz was considered one of the leading coloratura sopranos of the 1960s? (2019-06-11)
... that Dutch physician Aletta Jacobs's legal challenge to be added to the Amsterdam electoral rolls backfired, leading to a constitutional amendment granting voting rights to men only? (2019-06-11)
... that Kitty O'Brien Joyner (pictured) was the first woman engineer at NACA, the predecessor to NASA? (2019-06-10)
... that Lydia Lavelle is the first openly lesbian mayor in the US state of North Carolina? (2019-06-09)
... that Cameroonian singer Lady Ponce advertised that her wedding would take place at 3:30 p.m., then held it at 9:00 a.m. to avoid paparazzi? (2019-06-09)
... that Zhang Dongju, Chen Fahu, and J.-J. Hublin discovered that a fossil jaw from Baishiya Cave belonged to the first known Denisovan outside Siberia and the first known human on the Tibetan Plateau? (2019-06-07)
... that American opera singer Jennifer Holloway portrayed Grete in Der ferne Klang as a young girl whose lover leaves her, as a courtesan, and as an old woman who holds the returned lover while he dies? (2019-06-07)
... that Madame Wellington Koo (pictured), the Chinese-Indonesian First Lady of pre-communist China, was featured as a "woman of style" in a 2015 fashion exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art? (2019-06-05)
... that Moroccan businesswoman Miriem Bensalah-Chaqroun helped kickstart the World Bank's Women Entrepreneurs Finance Initiative at the 2017 G20 Hamburg summit? (2019-06-05)
... that Barbie likes welding? (2019-06-03)
... that a critic at The Musical Times described Ruth Hesse's performance as the Nurse in Die Frau ohne Schatten as "tirelessly ingenious"? (2019-06-02)
... that the soprano Elżbieta Szmytka recorded Chopin's Polish songs and performed in Górecki's Symphony of Sorrowful Songs, celebrating a century of Polish independence? (2019-05-30)
... that Kaylee Davidson-Olley survived an infant heart transplant to win gold in a 4 × 100 metres relay? (2019-05-27)
... that before she became an expert on wild animals, Hope Ryden was an international flight attendant and used her long layovers to observe wildlife in Africa and Asia? (2019-05-27)
... that Marie C. Brehm scolded an audience for spreading disease by waving handkerchiefs at a temperance meeting? (2019-05-24)
... that Celestina Casapietra, an Italian soprano at the Berlin State Opera, and the conductor Herbert Kegel were regarded as the glamour couple of the GDR in the 1960s? (2019-05-24)
... that film pioneers Alice Guy-Blaché, Georges Méliès, and Charlie Chaplin all made films about women's suffrage? (2019-05-22)
... that the girls of the Mädchenkantorei Limburg joined a women's choir to perform sacred choral music by contemporary composers at a 2019 concert in Limburg Cathedral? (2019-05-17)
... that the dancer and cabaret artist Hedi Schoop emigrated to California with her husband, the composer Friedrich Hollaender, where she created and manufactured pottery? (2019-05-14)
... that, inspired at a young age by Polish footballer Roman Kosecki of Galatasaray S.K. in Turkey, Nurcan Çelik became a player and later established her own football club? (2019-05-11)
... that Margaret Hayden Rorke named the color of Mamie Eisenhower's inaugural ball gown (pictured) "First Lady Pink"? (2019-05-10)
... that in 1990, Forbes named Carmen Thomas one of the 100 most influential women in Germany for running Hallo Ü-Wagen, a weekly travelling talk radio show with audience participation? (2019-05-07)
... that Katja Wulff (drawing shown) of Hamburg, who learned expressionist dance from Rudolf von Laban, was still running her dance school in Basel at the age of 90? (2019-05-05)
... that Liselotte Hammes, a soprano with the Cologne Opera, appeared as Sophie in Der Rosenkavalier at the Glyndebourne Festival alongside Teresa Żylis-Gara in the title role and Montserrat Caballé as the Marschallin? (2019-05-03)
... that Christa Wolf's Der geteilte Himmel (cover pictured), published in East Germany in 1963, was called a "socialist bestseller"? (2019-05-01)
... that Rosl Schwaiger appeared as Mozart's Blonde at the Salzburg Festival in 1945 and the Glyndebourne Festival in 1957? (2019-04-30)
... that Emma Ghent Curtis's 1889 novel The Administratrix features a cowboy in favor of women's suffrage? (2019-04-27)
... that Katharine Timpson Cook established training programmes for midwives in Namirembe, Uganda, but distrusted her students and censored their mail? (2019-04-23)
... that Antonia Franceschi starred in the 1980 film Fame, set at the same High School of Performing Arts that she attended in real life? (2019-04-23)
... that Margit Schramm appeared as Hanna Glawari, the "merry widow" in Lehár's operetta, more than 500 times? (2019-04-21)
... that Ivorian special advisor Euphrasie Kouassi Yao has worked as a UNESCO chair for Water, Women and Decision-making, and has been honoured by the Global Platform for Enterprising Women? (2019-04-18)
... that at the Queen Charlotte's Ball, debutantes curtsey to a giant birthday cake? (2019-04-17)
... that, inspired at the age of five by her football-playing brother, Dilan Ağgül became a footballer in Germany and later played for the Turkey women's national team? (2019-04-16)
... that Ruth H. Alexander was the first woman selected to serve on the President's Council on Sports, Fitness, and Nutrition? (2019-04-15)
... that Indian social worker Sharda Mehta organised a protest against indentured servitude in 1917? (2019-04-12)
... that American novelist Pearl Doles Bell (pictured) traveled with the Ringling Brothers Circus for six weeks to research her 1919 novel Her Elephant Man: A Story of the Sawdust Ring? (2019-04-09)
... that medieval historian Maria Teresa Ferrer i Mallol believed that the 14th-century Mudéjar Muslim, Jewish, and Christian communities in Catalonia and Valencia co-existed due to religious segregation? (2019-04-07)
... that Order of Australia recipient Helen Brownlee was the first woman to be elected as one of the vice presidents of the Australian Olympic Committee? (2019-04-06)
... that Cynthia García Coll from Puerto Rico has researched the psychological resilience of children born to teen mothers and of immigrant children? (2019-04-06)
... that Marjorie Paxson was twice demoted and replaced by a male editor when two different newspapers replaced their women’s sections with features sections? (2019-04-05)
... that the soprano Melitta Muszely appeared as the four women Hoffmann loves in Felsenstein's production at the Komische Oper Berlin in 1958, and still sang recitals at age 80? (2019-03-30)
... that jams made by French chocolatier Christine Ferber (pictured) are sold in Tokyo Isetan department stores, each wrapped in red cloth with a white bow? (2019-03-30)
... that Sumiko Hennessy, a co-founder of the Asian Pacific Development Center in Denver, Colorado, has taught courses for corporate executives about Asian cultures and "stress management Asian-style"? (2019-03-28)
... that in 2018 Lydia Steier, born in Hartford, Connecticut, became the first woman to stage Mozart's Die Zauberflöte at the Salzburg Festival? (2019-03-27)
... that the soprano Margit Bokor (pictured) created the role of Zdenka in Arabella by Richard Strauss at the Semperoper in Dresden in 1933, and performed the role in the UK premiere at the Royal Opera House? (2019-03-22)
... that the soprano and voice teacher Ria Ginster sang recitals at Wigmore Hall and Carnegie Hall, and recorded Rossini's Petite messe solennelle conducted by Sir John Barbirolli? (2019-03-20)
... that Venezuelan journalist Luz Mely Reyes was one of the "Guardians" spotlighted for the 2018 Time Person of the Year? (2019-03-17)
... that Amina Gerba's (pictured) beauty-care companies hire and give a portion of profits to the 2,000 women of the Songtaaba Cooperative in Burkina Faso? (2019-03-14)
... that Véronique Aka (pictured) was the first woman to be elected president of an Ivorian regional council? (2019-03-13)
... that the soprano Ursula Wendt-Walther appeared in more than 60 operatic roles at the Staatstheater Nürnberg, including Marei in the world premiere of Zemlinsky's Der Traumgörge? (2019-03-13)
... that Tara Sweeney is the first Alaska Native to oversee the Bureau of Indian Affairs? (2019-03-12)
... that Zuzana Marková's last-minute performance as Lucia di Lammermoor at Opéra de Marseille in 2014 was described as "dazzling" and praised for its depth of understanding? (2019-03-11)
... that Mary Margaret Francis told Graham Lord that her husband, Dick Francis, "would like me to have all the credit" for his novels? (2019-03-11)
... that Alma Webster Powell earned a law degree from New York University while on a break from her operatic career? (2019-03-11)
... that Ruthilde Boesch, who performed as Mozart's Susanna and in 37 other roles at the Vienna State Opera, made five world tours of recitals with her second husband as her accompanist? (2019-03-10)
... that Colorado Springs architect Elizabeth Wright Ingraham incorporated natural light into her designs, outfitting one home with a 100-foot (30 m) high skylight? (2019-03-09)
... that Tessa Ganserer is the first openly transgender person to serve in a German parliament? (2019-03-08)
... that Soham El Wardini is the first female mayor of post-independence Dakar, Senegal? (2019-03-08)
... that Peggy Goodin wrote her Hopwood Award-winning novel Clementine in the basement of the Chi Omega sorority house at the University of Michigan? (2019-03-08)
... that Caroline Katzenstein (pictured) began campaigning for women's suffrage in 1910 and, once the vote was granted, focused on supporting the Equal Rights Amendment – which is still not ratified today? (2019-03-08)
... that the Central Committee on Women's Employment was founded to help British women who were out of work due to the First World War? (2019-03-07)
... that Yvonne Blenkinsop, Mary Denness, Christine Jensen and Lillian Bilocca became known as "headscarf revolutionaries" for their attempts to improve safety in the English fishing industry? (2019-03-06)
... that Egyptologist Wafaa El Saddik has provided historical tours to Margaret Thatcher, Jimmy Carter, Helmut Schmidt, and Anwar Sadat? (2019-03-06)
... that Lulu Grace Graves was co-founder and first president of the American Dietetic Association when it formed in 1917? (2019-03-05)
... that Penny Rafferty Hamilton proposed 101 strategies to increase the participation of women in aviation? (2019-03-04)
... that the soprano Claire Born appeared in Bayreuth as Wagner's Eva and Gutrune, and in Salzburg as Mozart's Countess and Donna Elvira? (2019-03-04)
... that singer Bracha Zefira (pictured) is credited with bringing Yemenite and other Oriental Jewish folk songs into the mix of ethnic music in Palestine to create a new "Israeli style"? (2019-03-03)
... that Elena Ivanovna Barulina's 1930 paper became a standard guide to lentils (seeds pictured)? (2019-03-02)
... that journalist Dorothy Jurney was called "the godmother of women's pages"? (2019-03-02)
... that Agnes Buntine, Australia's first female bullocky, survived a large bush fire only because of her thick clothing and boots, at a time when most women wore "crinolines, bonnets, and shawls"? (2019-03-01)
... that the soprano Julia Kleiter has appeared internationally in Mozart operas, as both Susanna and the Countess in Figaro, and both Papagena and Pamina in The Magic Flute? (2019-02-27)
... that among the Mozart roles sung by soprano Sophie Karthäuser (pictured) are Ilia, Tamiri, and Serpetta? (2019-02-26)
... that Edris Allan, the first telephone operator for the Jamaica All Island Telephone Service, married Sir Harold Allan, the first Afro-Jamaican to be knighted? (2019-02-26)
... that Joyce Sumbi, one of thirteen black librarians in the 242-librarian LA County Library system in 1971, charged her employer with discrimination against minorities? (2019-02-25)
... that professional world barrel-racing champion Hailey Kinsel won $433,333.33 in one day at the American Rodeo in February 2017? (2019-02-25)
... that Madame A. C. Bilbrew directed the choir that appeared as cotton pickers singing spirituals in Hearts in Dixie, one of the first all-black talkies? (2019-02-24)
... that during the Second World War, Rachel Dübendorfer received sensitive German military information, including plans for the German invasion of the USSR? (2019-02-23)
... that Genia Kühmeier appeared as Mozart's Pamina at the Vienna State Opera and the Metropolitan Opera, and recorded the soprano solo in Brahms' Ein deutsches Requiem with Nikolaus Harnoncourt? (2019-02-22)
... that, playing in 1887, Emily Valentine is the first documented female rugby player? (2019-02-22)
... that, influenced by the Harlem Renaissance, Los Angeles teacher Dorothy Vena Johnson wrote poems such as "Epitaph for a Bigot" and "Post War Ballad"? (2019-02-22)
... that "Pramadaavanam", a weekly column by Malathi Chendur (pictured), was published uninterruptedly for 47 years? (2019-02-21)
... that Jennie Jackson, an original member of the Fisk Jubilee Singers, performed with the ensemble before US President Ulysses S. Grant, Mark Twain, and Queen Victoria? (2019-02-20)
... that Louise Creighton and Kathleen Lyttelton founded the Cambridge University Ladies Dining Society in 1890 "not without an idea of retaliating on the husbands who dined in College"? (2019-02-18)
... that Maria Guajardo's doctoral dissertation on educational attainment among Latina teens led to her hiring as Dropout Prevention Coordinator for the Colorado Department of Education? (2019-02-17)
... that in 2017, the Tucson Girls Chorus opened the city's first public choir for girls and boys with special needs? (2019-02-15)
... that the work of physician Elizabeth Ross is still commemorated annually in Serbia despite her having spent only three weeks in the country? (2019-02-14)
... that soprano Ildikó Raimondi, who appeared at the Vienna State Opera in more than 40 roles including Pamina and Mimì, sang the role of Marzelline in the opening season of the Valencia Opera? (2019-02-12)
... that the poem "The Aboriginal Mother" expresses grief about the massacre of at least 28 Aboriginal Australians at a time when a white settler said, "Why, we are poisoning the Blacks; which is much safer; and serve them right too!"? (2019-02-11)
... that mountaineer Mary Jobe Akeley was hailed as "the first white person and probably the first human being" to explore a remote peak in the Canadian Rockies that she called "Big Ice Mountain"? (2019-02-10)
... that the Inter-Allied Women's Conference, which opened in Paris 100 years ago today, marked the first time women were granted formal participation in an international treaty negotiation (conference organizer Marguerite de Witt-Schlumberger pictured)? (2019-02-10)
... that Juan Gabriel's own cover of "Así Fue", which he originally composed for Isabel Pantoja, was the best-performing Latin single of 1998 in the United States? (2019-02-08)
... that Alexina Maude Wildman's biting, sarcastic gossip column in The Bulletin was headed by the cartoon image of an old woman, disguising the fact that she was in her 20s? (2019-02-08)
... that Victoria Loke, who had a role in Crazy Rich Asians, has advocated for the rights of sex workers and domestic workers? (2019-02-06)
... that Nazo Dharejo fought off 200 bandits in a gun battle that earned her a reputation as "Pakistan's toughest woman"? (2019-02-06)
... that top National Hockey League prospects Quinn and Jack Hughes learned how to skate from their mother, Ellen Weinberg-Hughes, a world championship silver medalist? (2019-02-05)
... that in 1956, German civil servant Erica Pappritz co-wrote a book on etiquette which included sections on correct odour and on how Bonn diplomats liked to carry umbrellas? (2019-02-04)
... that Zura Karuhimbi saved the lives of more than 100 refugees during the Rwandan genocide by pretending to be a witch? (2019-02-01)
... that Mamie Shields Pyle was instrumental in winning the right to vote for women in South Dakota? (2019-02-01)
... that Cemile Timur founded, played for, and now coaches a football club recently promoted to the Turkish Women's First League? (2019-02-01)
... that one wrestler was injured and another stripped of her championship after a professional wrestling bout involving Lady Shani went off script? (2019-01-31)
... that Marianne Schech appeared as the Dyer's Wife in the U.S. premiere of Die Frau ohne Schatten by Richard Strauss at the San Francisco Opera? (2019-01-26)
... that in 1901, French feminist writer Marie-Louise Gagneur was awarded the Legion of Honour? (2019-01-24)
... that Beyoncé wore an Inbal Dror wedding gown to the 2016 Grammy Awards? (2019-01-22)
... that on 20 January 1990, Sakina Aliyeva signed the first declaration of independence by a part of the Soviet Union, and announced it on Nakhichevan television? (2019-01-20)
... that Gwen Grant Mellon, who co-founded a hospital for the poor in Haiti, was buried in a cardboard box? (2019-01-20)
... that Israeli scholar Esther Farbstein and a colleague discovered more than 100 personal Holocaust accounts in rabbinical works, a resource previously overlooked by Holocaust researchers? (2019-01-16)
... that in 1960, Sirimavo Bandaranaike became the first woman elected as a non-hereditary head of government in modern history? (2019-01-14)
... that photographer Lola Álvarez Bravo was described by Alfonso Michel as Mexico's most important painter? (2019-01-09)
... that Hazel Smith helped to popularize the term "outlaw country" by using it to describe the music of performers such as Willie Nelson and Waylon Jennings? (2019-01-04)
... that Gujarati writer Geeta Parikh has written more than 900 poems? (2019-01-01)
... that the 1923 World Congress of Jewish Women in Vienna unanimously resolved to support the settlement of Jews in Palestine? (2018-12-31)
... that hall of fame barrel racer Wanda Harper Bush rode her horse 3 miles (4.8 km) to catch the bus for school? (2018-12-29)
... that in 1909 Mamie Garvin Fields became one of the first African-American public school teachers in Charleston County, South Carolina? (2018-12-28)
... that Dorothée Munyaneza, who moved to London as a girl because of the Rwandan genocide, has choreographed two works about her experiences? (2018-12-27)
... that Clare Faulds, the first woman admitted to the Manx bar, later served as the Vicar General of Sodor and Man? (2018-12-26)
... that the Penney-Missouri Awards for women's page journalism were described as the "Pulitzer Prize of feature writing"? (2018-12-25)
... that a bracelet lost by Josephine Heffernan during the First World War was found in 2002, and returned to her family in 2017? (2018-12-25)
... that Clémentine Touré coached the Ivory Coast women's national football team in their first matches outside Africa at the 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup? (2018-12-24)
... that two portraits of 17th-century midwife Jacquemijntje Garniers by her son, the Dutch painter Gabriël Metsu, sold in London and Paris more than 200 years later? (2018-12-22)
... that in 1959, Lois Graham became the first woman in the United States to earn a PhD in mechanical engineering? (2018-12-21)
... that Eliza Hamilton Dunlop was the first Australian poet to try to transliterate Aboriginal songs? (2018-12-21)
... that Karabo Mathang-Tshabuse is South Africa's first female FIFA-accredited soccer agent? (2018-12-20)
... that at age 62, Alice Harrell Strickland was elected the first woman mayor in the U.S. state of Georgia on a platform to rid her town of "demon rum"? (2018-12-20)
... that in 1901, Charlotte Reeve Conover led the Young Women's League in taking over publication for a day of the Dayton Daily News? (2018-12-19)
... that Aurelia Henry Reinhardt was the longest serving president in the history of Mills College? (2018-12-17)
... that Roz Young's column appeared opposite the editorial page in the Dayton Daily News at a time when most women writers were relegated to the women's pages? (2018-12-16)
... that Journal Herald columnist Marj Heyduck was photographed in a different hat for each of her daily columns, totaling more than 2,500 different hats? (2018-12-16)
... that architect Agnes Ballard (pictured) once said she designed "apartments, residences and hot dog stands"? (2018-12-15)
... that Erin Zwiener ran for the Texas House of Representatives after her incumbent representative blocked her on Facebook? (2018-12-14)
... that Debbie Mucarsel-Powell is set to become the first Ecuadorian-born member of the United States Congress? (2018-12-12)
... that in 2018, Sara Cox became the first woman to referee a Premiership Rugby match? (2018-12-11)
... that US Representative-elect Sharice Davids is a former mixed martial arts fighter? (2018-12-10)
... that Tracy LaQuey Parker received more than 5,000 emails over two days in 1997 because of spoofing? (2018-12-07)
... that Dorothy Vredenburgh Bush was the first woman to call roll for the Democratic National Convention, doing so for 12 straight conventions? (2018-12-06)
... that Benal Nevzat İstar Arıman was elected in 1935 into the Grand National Assembly of Turkey as one of its first women members? (2018-12-05)
... that in 2008, a team led by French astrophysicist Anne-Marie Lagrange directly imaged Beta Pictoris b, an exoplanet, confirming predictions of a massive planet existing around the star Beta Pictoris? (2018-12-04)
... that American businesswoman and suffragist Anna Shelton was driven to eschew traditional women's roles because of a bigamy scandal involving her sister's husband, a Fort Worth mayor? (2018-12-04)
... that Molly Morgan became the mistress of a ship captain so that she could escape from the colony where she lived? (2018-12-03)
... that Renate Behle (pictured) made her operatic debut in 1968 and appeared as Sara in the premiere of Giorgio Battistelli's Lot at the Staatsoper Hannover in 2017? (2018-12-01)
... that Mary Ellen Cuper was the first postmistress at New Norcia? (2018-11-28)
... that Lula Mysz-Gmeiner (pictured), a contralto and influential voice teacher from Transylvania, performed lieder written for her by Max Reger and other prominent contemporaries? (2018-11-28)
... that historical novelist Elizabeth Byrd was the editor of a salacious confession magazine in the 1950s? (2018-11-25)
... that trail runner Aurélia Truel gave up on playing handball because she was too short? (2018-11-25)
... that Iris Kadrić played international football for Sweden under-17s, before switching to play for Bosnia and Herzegovina? (2018-11-22)
... that neuroendocrinologist Catherine Woolley found evidence of brain plasticity using a technique described in 1873? (2018-11-17)
... that the first woman voted in as head of state says she would not have got her job if women in Iceland had not walked away from theirs? (2018-11-16)
... that Joan L. Mitchell co-invented JPEG? (2018-11-16)
... that racist graffiti on mathematician Chawne Kimber's college campus, along with George Carlin's seven dirty words, inspired her to politicize her quilting? (2018-11-15)
... that Liamani Segura, who sang the US national anthem before 1,300 high school basketball fans at age six, taught herself by watching music videos on YouTube? (2018-11-14)
... that former First Lady of Slovenia Barbara Miklič Türk met her husband and former Slovenian president Danilo Türk while working as a librarian at the United Nations? (2018-11-13)
... that historian Catherine Kerrison (pictured) thinks beauty is still important for any woman in the public eye? (2018-11-06)
... that women brewsters were the primary producers of beer before commercialization of the industry? (2018-11-03)
... that the Day of the Dead was commemorated by Betsabeé Romero in Mexico City in 2016 with an installation of 103 trajineras (example pictured) decorated as memorial offerings? (2018-11-02)
... that Victoria Lederberg was a SimCity mayor of Providence, Rhode Island, before becoming a state supreme court justice? (2018-10-30)
... that in 2018, storyboard artist Domee Shi became the first woman to direct a Pixar short film? (2018-10-30)
... that Israeli songwriter Rachel Shapira's first hit song was set to music without her knowledge? (2018-10-27)
... that Jean Yancey was known in Denver as "the mother of all businesswomen", having helped more than 1,000 women launch their own startups? (2018-10-25)
... that in 2017, Sofía Gómez broke the CMAS Constant Weight Bi-Fins freediving world record, and then broke her own record two days later? (2018-10-22)
... that during World War II, Huang Qingyun published the only Chinese children's magazine in Hong Kong and China, and corresponded with her readers to help them cope with life in wartime? (2018-10-22)
... that the company set up by horticulturist Theodosia Burr Shepherd is considered the foundation of the California seed industry? (2018-10-21)
... that Abhilasha Kumari, the first female Chief Justice of the Manipur High Court in India, served for only 13 days? (2018-10-19)
... that in 2017, Renee Rabinowitz successfully sued El Al after the airline forced her to move at the request of a Haredi Jewish man who refused to sit beside her? (2018-10-18)
... that in 1981, Elnora M. Gilfoyle became the first occupational therapist to receive an honorary Doctor of Science degree? (2018-10-17)
... that Ana María Campos, who died 190 years ago today, is celebrated (monument pictured) as a heroine of the Venezuelan War of Independence? (2018-10-17)
... that Mary Jane Reoch rode 12 miles (19 km) to the hospital on her racing bike to give birth to her daughter? (2018-10-16)
... that Venezuelan political activist Rafaela Requesens was a flamenco dancer for fifteen years from the age of six? (2018-10-15)
... that American missionary Clarissa Chapman Armstrong led Bible study meetings for Queen Kalama in Hawaii while her husband served as Minister of Public Instruction under King Kamehameha III? (2018-10-12)
... that Türkan Rado was the first female professor of law in Turkey? (2018-10-11)
... that architect Rose Connor found in 1958 that only one percent of registered architects in the U.S. were female, and seven states had no female architects at all? (2018-10-09)
... that in 1833, Ursula Newell Emerson drew some of the earliest surviving manuscript maps of Hawaii for instructional use? (2018-10-07)
... that Almeda Eliza Hitchcock became the first female lawyer in the Kingdom of Hawaii in 1888? (2018-10-04)
... that Wilma Mankiller faced sexism during her campaign for Deputy Chief of the Cherokee Nation, despite Cherokee society being traditionally matrilineal? (2018-10-03)
... that Neeru Chadha is the first Indian woman to be elected as a judge to the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea? (2018-10-01)
... that Afro-Cuban poetry reciter Eusebia Cosme performed only in Spanish, but packed American venues such as Carnegie Hall? (2018-09-30)
... that Adrienne Maree Brown writes for Bitch? (2018-09-30)
... that Olivia Giacobetti (pictured) popularized the use of figs in perfumery? (2018-09-28)
... that sociologist Ashley Mears conducted an ethnography of the fashion industry while working as a model in New York and London? (2018-09-24)
... that singer Elise Barensfeld is a possible dedicatee of Ludwig van Beethoven's Für Elise? (2018-09-23)
... that in 1944, educator Bazoline Estelle Usher (pictured) became the first African American to have an office at Atlanta City Hall? (2018-09-23)
... that a record reward was raised by the local Crime Stoppers in the month-long search for missing University of Iowa student Mollie Tibbetts, who was found dead in a cornfield? (2018-09-16)
... that in 2018, Diede de Groot became the first woman in wheelchair tennis to win both the women's singles and doubles events at Wimbledon? (2018-09-16)
... that Vanessa Delgado's 112-day term in the California State Senate will be the shortest tenure since 1903? (2018-09-12)
... that in 2001, HIV/AIDS campaigner Minoo Mohraz defied a media ban by using the word "condom" on Iranian national television? (2018-09-12)
... that mezzo-soprano Sybille Specht appeared as La Belle in a chamber opera by Philip Glass at the Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz? (2018-09-10)
... that American missionary Mary Sophia Hyde Rice taught Sanford B. Dole, who later became Hawaii's only president? (2018-09-10)
... that the 19th-century writer Athalia Schwartz addressed the conditions and lives of prostitutes in England, the Netherlands, and Belgium? (2018-09-06)
... that Mary Blair Moody became the first woman to earn an MD from Buffalo Medical College? (2018-09-05)
... that Slovene-American Katka Zupančič wrote children's poetry about the austerity of immigrant life? (2018-09-05)
... that as a high school basketball player, Lometa Odom set the Texas single-game scoring record of 78 points in 1951? (2018-08-28)
... that Margot Fonteyn (pictured) was The Royal Ballet's prima ballerina for 45 years, before retiring to become a cattle rancher in Panama? (2018-08-26)
... that Ina Hartwig, formerly on the editorial staff of Frankfurter Rundschau, published a biography of Ingeborg Bachmann in 2017? (2018-08-26)
... that the writer İsmet Kür's father and sister were writers, and her daughter is also a writer? (2018-08-23)
... that a solar-powered device for extracting water from the air, co-designed by Evelyn Wang, has been compared to the moisture vaporators in Star Wars? (2018-08-23, 2019-08-23)
... that opera singer Catherine-Nicole Lemaure was imprisoned overnight for refusing to perform? (2018-08-20)
... that Jenny Sabin's installation Lumen is knitted from solar active yarns that absorb light energy during the day and release it at night? (2018-08-18)
... that air conditioning refrigerant HFO-1234yf, developed by a team led by Barbara Haviland Minor, is believed to be used in 50% of new vehicles produced in 2018, to help counter global warming? (2018-08-16)
... that as CEO of Denver Health, Dr. Patricia A. Gabow streamlined operations, improved patient care, and cut excessive spending using a system based on the Toyota Production System? (2018-08-15)
... that Mary Fenton, the first Anglo-Indian actress of the Parsi, Gujarati, and Urdu theatre, was introduced to acting by her husband, Kavasji Palanji Khatau? (2018-08-14)
... that Marie Lehmann, one of the Rhinemaidens (pictured) at the first Bayreuth Festival in 1876, sang the soprano solo in Beethoven's Ninth Symphony for the groundbreaking of the Bayreuth Festival Theatre? (2018-08-13)
... that Chinese spy Zheng Pingru (pictured), who was executed after an assassination attempt on a Japanese collaborator, is believed to have inspired the novella Lust, Caution, and its film adaptation? (2018-08-12)
... that the research of 2017 Spinoza Prize winner Eveline Crone has led the Netherlands to extend its juvenile detention age limit from 18 to 23? (2018-08-10)
... that Teuira Henry (pictured) reconstructed her English missionary grandfather's lost manuscript describing Tahitian history by using his notes? (2018-08-09)
... that the Argentinian mezzo-soprano Alicia Nafé appeared in her signature role as Bizet's Carmen alongside Plácido Domingo in San Francisco, and at the Metropolitan Opera with Domingo as conductor? (2018-08-09)
... that Erinea Garcia Gallegos, one of the first college-educated Hispanic women in Colorado, was appointed postmistress of the city of San Luis by President Franklin D. Roosevelt? (2018-08-08)
... that the mezzo-soprano Carla Henius performed in the premiere of Luigi Nono's Intolleranza 1960 at La Fenice, and had a composition by Dieter Schnebel written for her voice? (2018-08-07)
... that Kelly M. Quintanilla, the first person in her family to attend a university, became the first female president of Texas A&M University–Corpus Christi? (2018-08-04)
... that Sara Hershkowitz, who usually appears on the opera stage as the Queen of the Night and Zerbinetta, parodied Donald Trump in Ligeti's Mysteries of the Macabre at the Lowlands Festival? (2018-08-02)
... that Catherine Gayer, who was a coloratura soprano for four decades at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, premiered Nono's Intolleranza 1960 in Venice, and Reimann's Melusine at the Schwetzingen Festival? (2018-08-01)
... that Kateryna Kasper appeared at the Los Angeles Opera as Belinda in Purcell's Dido and Aeneas, staged by Barrie Kosky, and in Frankfurt as Antonida in Glinka's Iwan Sussanin, staged by Harry Kupfer? (2018-07-30)
... that the fatal shooting of her son inspired Lucy McBath to advocate for gun control and ultimately run for the United States Congress? (2018-07-29)
... that when Minna Lammert, Lilli Lehmann and her sister Marie rehearsed as the Rhinemaidens for the first performance of Das Rheingold in Bayreuth, Wagner thanked them "with tears of joy"? (2018-07-25)
... that the same day her husband was murdered, 55-year-old Byzantine Empress Zoë Porphyrogenita (pictured) married her young lover and had him crowned emperor the next day? (2018-07-24)
... that Petra Schmidt has performed operatic title roles such as Dvořák's Rusalka and Ponchielli's La Gioconda at the Musiktheater im Revier? (2018-07-24)
... that mezzo-soprano Patricia Payne made her debut at the Metropolitan Opera in Ponchielli's La Gioconda, and took part in the first performance of Britten's Peter Grimes in New Zealand? (2018-07-21)
... that Tuluhan Tekelioğlu made a documentary film on organ transplantation while her father was undergoing and recovering from bypass surgery in a hospital in Antalya? (2018-07-20)
... that Sarah Louvion, playing principal flute with the Frankfurter Opern- und Museumsorchester, recorded 20th-century French music with solo flute by André Jolivet, Jacques Ibert, and others? (2018-07-19)
... that mezzo-soprano Sara Sheffield is the first female feature vocalist in the history of the "the President's Own" United States Marine Band? (2018-07-16)
... that Theodora was dragged from a monastery and forced to become Empress of the Byzantine Empire against her will? (2018-07-13)
... that French mezzo-soprano Isabelle Druet is a fan of reggae? (2018-07-10)
... that Mexican-American human rights activist Alicia Cuarón became a Franciscan nun in her fifties? (2018-07-09)
... that Cornelia Wulkopf made her operatic debut in the centenary production of Wagner's Ring Cycle at the Bayreuth Festival and recorded the alto part in Bach's Mass in B minor with Sergiu Celibidache? (2018-07-08)
... that Claire Ptak baked the lemon and elderflower wedding cake for Prince Harry and Meghan Markle? (2018-07-07)
... that Tammie Jo Shults (pictured), captain of Southwest Airlines Flight 1380, was one of the first female fighter pilots in the US Navy? (2018-07-06)
... that Britta Stallmeister, the Forest Bird in Bayreuth in 2001, appeared as Germa in a new chamber opera at the Schlachthof Wiesbaden in 2018? (2018-07-06)
... that Mary Walker overcame a tragedy and a serious injury to win the 2012 World Barrel Racing Championship? (2018-07-04)
... that international windsurfing champion Lena Erdil is the daughter of a Turkish father and a German mother, who met each other while windsurfing? (2018-07-03)
... that Ofir Ben Shitrit was suspended from her religious girls' high school after singing on The Voice Israel? (2018-07-02)
... that Carmen Casco de Lara Castro, founder of one of the first human rights organizations in Latin America, was arrested, denied a passport, and monitored by the Stroessner regime? (2018-07-02)
... that more than 400 female Red Guards were shot after being captured during the 1918 Finnish Civil War, with some being raped before execution? (2018-07-01)
... that Princess Vera Gedroits (pictured)—good author but indifferent poet, lesbian but married a man—was a Russian military surgeon who pioneered battlefield laparotomy? (2018-06-30)
... that soprano Maria Bengtsson (pictured) was described as the quintessential Strauss interpreter following her recent debut in the title role of Arabella? (2018-06-28)
... that if elected, Democratic candidate Deb Haaland would be the first Native American woman to become a member of the United States House of Representatives? (2018-06-28)
... that the London firm of Mary Hayley arranged the shipment of tea involved in the Boston Tea Party? (2018-06-23)
... that Jill S. Tietjen tries to supply more role models for women in engineering and technology by regularly nominating candidates for awards and halls of fame? (2018-06-20)
... that US Navy Rear Admiral Alma M. Grocki (pictured) played a key role in the creation of breast insignia for the engineering duty officer role? (2018-06-19)
... that Gujarati folk singer Diwaliben Bhil was awarded the Padma Shri, the fourth highest civilian award in India? (2018-06-18)
... that junior Turkish aerobic gymnast Ayşe Begüm Onbaşı is nicknamed "Medal Monster" due to the many medals she has won? (2018-06-18)
... that Virginia Fraser, the Long-Term Care Ombudsman for the state of Colorado, created a bingo game that teaches nursing home residents about their rights? (2018-06-17)
... that mezzo-soprano Hedwig Fassbender, who also appeared in soprano roles such as Wagner's Isolde, has been an influential voice teacher in Frankfurt? (2018-06-14)
... that soprano Christina Gerstberger recorded the role of Lisida in E. T. A. Hoffmann's Liebe und Eifersucht in a performance at the Ludwigsburg Festival? (2018-06-13)
... that Iva Despić-Simonović, court sculptor to King Alexander and Queen Maria of Yugoslavia, had to buy a cow to support her family during the Second World War and hid it in her atelier? (2018-06-12)
... that African-American civil rights activist Pauline Short Robinson broke the color barrier at the Denver Public Library? (2018-06-08)
... that Güzide Alçu and her two teammates were referred to the disciplinary board for displaying V signs that were interpreted by the Turkish Football Federation as insulting? (2018-06-06)
... that having won a world title in 2016 at the age of 68, professional barrel racer Mary Burger became the oldest rodeo world champion? (2018-06-04)
... that Maribel Parra de Mestre is the first female vice admiral of Venezuela? (2018-06-03)
... that Croatian oceanographer Mira Zore-Armanda had difficulty gaining passage on research vessels because she was a woman? (2018-06-02)
... that Madeleine Moreau is the only French athlete to win an Olympic medal in diving? (2018-05-31)
... that an opera was composed for mezzo-soprano Birgit Remmert – Iokaste by Stefan Heucke – in which the mother and wife of Oedipus is the only role? (2018-05-27)
... that the Turkish-Cypriot women's footballer Zehra Borazancı has played international football tennis for her country? (2018-05-25)
... that Katharina Magiera, a member of the Frankfurt Opera, has appeared as Lisa, a former SS officer in Auschwitz, in Weinberg's opera The Passenger? (2018-05-23)
... that in 1953, US Navy pharmacist Katherine Keating was an official witness for a prisoner of war exchange aboard the hospital ship USS Haven? (2018-05-17)
... that while posted to London during the First World War, journalist Beatrice Nasmyth had her brother smuggle her articles back to Canada to avoid censorship? (2018-05-14)
... that Erica Schwartz (pictured) provided health protection guidance for the US military's response to Hurricane Katrina, the 2010 Haiti earthquake, and the West Africa Ebola outbreak? (2018-05-12)
... that Wendy Watson Nelson taught nursing students that "the family's ability to change depends upon their ability to alter their perception of the problem"? (2018-05-11)
... that the pianist Margarita Höhenrieder has premiered works dedicated to her by Harald Genzmer, including a concerto for piano, trumpet, and strings? (2018-05-11)
... that Croatia's first female general joined the army by mistake? (2018-05-11)
... that the ambassador Ayşe Sinirlioğlu was Turkey's sherpa to the G20? (2018-05-10)
... that the Turkish international Dilara Özlem Sucuoğlu started to play football in Germany at the age of five inspired by her father, a football coach? (2018-05-09)
... that Blanche McVeigh's home workshop had a Sturges printing press so heavy that the floor needed to be shored up to support it? (2018-05-09)
... that mezzo-soprano Melinda Paulsen was the first to record songs by Nadia Boulanger and Ethel Smyth? (2018-05-08)
... that Mabel St Clair Stobart became the first woman to be promoted to the rank of major in any national army? (2018-05-08)
... that Henriette Feuerbach (pictured) wrote a book for women and promoted the art of her stepson, the painter Anselm Feuerbach? (2018-05-08)
... that Louise Antonini disguised herself as a man to serve in the French Navy and Napoleon's army for a total of 25 years? (2018-05-07)
... that Gaboimilla, a mythical Chilean queen, is said to have allowed men into her kingdom only for procreation? (2018-05-07)
... that Pulitzer Prize-nominated film critic Ann Hornaday was once an assistant to Gloria Steinem? (2018-05-06)
... that the US Air Force Association's highest award for nursing is named in honor of Juanita Redmond Hipps? (2018-05-05)
... that in 1896, Queen Mamea offered her South Pacific island nation to the United States? (2018-05-04)
... that Oleta Crain, one of only three black women officers in training in the U.S. Army in 1943, was not allowed to sleep in the same barracks or take a shower at the same time as the white women? (2018-05-03)
... that Nicole Girard-Mangin, the first woman doctor to serve in the French army, was initially paid at the same rate as a nurse? (2018-05-01)
... that the duties of Mollie Lentaigne, a nurse during the Second World War, included drawing the experimental surgery (example pictured) being performed on members of the Guinea Pig Club? (2018-05-01)
... that Fatima Zohra Ardjoune became the first female general in the Arab world in 2009? (2018-04-30)
... that Astrid Medina farms coffee at over 1,800 metres (5,900 ft)? (2018-04-30)
... that Mariya Tsukanova was the only woman in the Soviet–Japanese War to be awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union? (2018-04-29)
... that Franz Schubert dedicated compositions to Cathinka Buchwieser (pictured), a soprano who appeared in Vienna as Mozart's Sesto and Elvira, and as Ferdinando Paer's Achille and Leonora? (2018-04-29)
... that in 1851, the German soprano Anna Bochkoltz-Falconi appeared at La Scala in Milan in Pergolesi's Lo frate 'nnamorato? (2018-04-28)
... that when Ukrainian pianist Milana Chernyavska recorded Nikolai Rakov's violin sonatas with David Frühwirth, a review called her "a full partner in the proceedings, delicate and brutal as required"? (2018-04-27)
... that Elisabeth Speiser was the first to record Sandrina in Haydn's opera L'infedeltà delusa, and recorded Debussy's Ariettes oubliées? (2018-04-25)
... that Amanda Swimmer was one of the first individuals to propose different uses and names for traditional Cherokee pottery? (2018-04-25)
... that Sarah Frey (pictured) is the United States' most prolific pumpkin grower? (2018-04-24)
... that soprano Margarete Luise Schick, who performed roles such as Gluck's Iphigenie and Mozart's Zerlina with noted diction and acting, sang for the coronation of Leopold II? (2018-04-23)
... that singer Rihanna's Fenty Beauty cosmetics line was named one of Time magazine's best inventions of 2017? (2018-04-20)
... that Carolyn McAskie was the first Canadian to lead a United Nations peacekeeping mission, post-Cold War? (2018-04-16)
... that Laura Barney Harding once declared she was Katharine Hepburn's husband? (2018-04-05)
... that Shalimar Sharbatly's hand-painted Porsche 911 was featured at the Louvre? (2018-03-31)
... that Canadian soprano Kirsten MacKinnon, a winner of the Met Auditions, appeared as Fiordiligi at the Glyndebourne Festival, and as Meyerbeer's Inès at the Frankfurt Opera, staged as a space mission? (2018-03-31)
... that Susan O'Malley was the first female president of an NBA franchise? (2018-03-30)
... that Welsh sisters Jessie Ace and Margaret Wright (pictured) used their shawls as a rope to rescue lifeboat crew who had fallen overboard during the rescue of a German barque in 1883? (2018-03-28)
... that the Woozle effect delayed Naomi Parker Fraley's identification as the most likely model for We Can Do It! (pictured)? (2018-03-25)
... that Elsa Cavelti, who appeared in dramatic roles at the Opernhaus Zürich and taught voice at the Musikhochschule Frankfurt, was Wagner's Brangäne at La Scala? (2018-03-25)
... that in October 2017, Alhambra Nievas became the first woman to referee a men's international rugby union match in Europe? (2018-03-22)
... that Allanah Harper was responsible for introducing W. H. Auden, T. S. Eliot, and Virginia Woolf to the French people? (2018-03-21)
... that in 1998, Dottie Lamm, former First Lady of Colorado, ran for a US Senate seat against the same man who had defeated her husband in the Democratic primary for the same seat six years earlier? (2018-03-19)
... that oceanographer and former Florida State University dean Nancy Marcus was also a magician and ventriloquist? (2018-03-18)
... that Arthur and Morley Cowles Ballantine, co-publishers of The Durango Herald, sometimes wrote opposing editorials, as when he endorsed Nixon and she Humphrey for president in 1968? (2018-03-17)
... that Zofia Posmysz (pictured), Auschwitz inmate No. 7566, wrote an audio play on her memories, which became the basis for her 1962 novel Passenger, a 1963 film, and a 1968 opera? (2018-03-16)
... that Elizabeth Kane wrote a book sympathetic to Mormon polygamists while simultaneously objecting to how polygamy subjugated women? (2018-03-15)
... that Camilla Nylund (pictured) appeared as the Countess in Capriccio by Richard Strauss at the Frankfurt Opera, staged by Brigitte Fassbaender, who set the opera in Occupied France? (2018-03-14)
... that Virginia Woolf was conceived despite her mother Julia Stephen and father doing "what they could to prevent me", since "contraception was a very imperfect art" in the 19th century? (2018-03-13)
... that pianist Katharina Sellheim and two other women played piano trios by Beethoven, Waterhouse, and Mendelssohn at the Beethovenfest? (2018-03-10)
... that Mary Ann Kerwin, co-founder of La Leche League, said that when breastfeeding in the US in the 1950s, "we would practically smother our babies with blankets to avoid showing any breast"? (2018-03-08)
... that Krishna Kolhi is the first Hindu Dalit woman to be elected to the Senate of Pakistan? (2018-03-08)
... that Emma Jane Gay, known for her photographs of the Nez Perce people in the late 19th century, is identified as the first American lesbian photographer? (2018-03-08)
... that Catherine Rückwardt, who was Generalmusikdirektorin at the Staatstheater Mainz for a decade and one of only four women in such a position in Germany, conducted a recording of the First Symphony by Hans Rott? (2018-03-08)
... that Annalisa Crannell brings chopsticks to art galleries as a tool for finding vanishing points? (2018-03-08)
... that Alysia Rissling was the pilot for the first ever all-woman team in an official four-man bobsleigh race after the event became gender neutral? (2018-03-05)
... that the lyric soprano Anny Felbermayer, who performed 54 roles at the Vienna State Opera, created the role of Xanthe in Die Liebe der Danae by Richard Strauss at the 1952 Salzburg Festival? (2018-03-01)
... that after the shooting of Trayvon Martin, Seattle author Ijeoma Oluo started writing about her social concerns on a blog that she had previously devoted to food? (2018-02-24)
... that bobsleigh duo Mica McNeill and Mica Moore crowdfunded £30,000 to compete at 2017–18 Bobsleigh World Cup events? (2018-02-20)
... that Australian mathematician Katherine Heinrich was the first female president of the Canadian Mathematical Society? (2018-02-18)
... that a housewife, Bhogeswari Phukanani, played a part in the Quit India Movement and lost her life in doing so? (2018-02-16)
... that Illinois-born basketball player Erin Lawless played for Slovakia, despite not being able to speak the language? (2018-02-11)
... that Ilona Durigo, one of the leading concert contraltos of her time, performed in the first recording of Bach's St Matthew Passion, conducted by Willem Mengelberg? (2018-01-31)
... that Marie Grice Young, piano instructor for President Theodore Roosevelt's children, is speculated to have been one of the LGBT passengers on the RMS Titanic? (2018-01-27)
... that Marie Grice Young, piano instructor for Theodore Roosevelt's children, is speculated to have been one of the LGBT passengers on the RMS Titanic? (2018-01-24)
... that before Margaret L. Curry introduced vocational training and education for women prisoners in Colorado, their only activity was washing and ironing the clothes of the male prisoners? (2018-01-22)
... that Hazel Carter was reported to have received the United States' first military funeral for a woman? (2018-01-20)
... that Caroline Lenferna de Laresle travelled from Mauritius to Rome to claim the pontifical right for her order of nuns and died there shortly afterwards? (2018-01-20)
... that Angeline Murimirwa received money for her secondary education from Camfed, and is now its regional executive director for Southern & Eastern Africa? (2018-01-15)
... that Ramize Erer said that when she published a cartoon of a masturbating girl, "all hell broke loose"? (2018-01-14)
... that Jennie Carignan helped reintroduce ballroom dancing to the Royal Military College Saint-Jean, having taken classes with her future husband when she was a cadet? (2018-01-13)
... that soprano Cristina Pasaroiu played Manon in boots, even in bed with her lover? (2018-01-13)
... that Genius Grant winner Regina Barzilay helped decipher the ancient language Ugaritic? (2018-01-12)
... that Kenyan Brigadier Fatumah Ahmed joined the armed forces "by accident" when she saw a recruitment campaign whilst applying for an identity card? (2018-01-12)
... that Ramona Go was the first female military pilot, line officer, battalion commander, adjutant general, and regular service general in the Philippine Armed Forces? (2018-01-11)
... that Janai Haupapa joined the Canadian national rugby league team while still playing for a rugby union club? (2018-01-11)
... that Arsenal Ladies player Clare Wheatley took over as the club's development officer and general manager from Vic Akers, who once told her, "Arsenal Ladies is not a social club"? (2018-01-11)
... that Kate Fotso, the richest woman in Cameroon, is known as the "iron lady of the cocoa industry"? (2018-01-10)
... that when He Luli was 14, an assassin's bombs killed her younger sister? (2018-01-10)
... that Canadian Army Lieutenant-General Chris Whitecross has fostered 33 children? (2018-01-10)
... that Margaret W. Burcham was the first female brigadier general in the United States Army Corps of Engineers? (2018-01-09)
... that Mahani Teave is considered Easter Island's only classical musician? (2018-01-09)
... that US-educated sociologist Lei Jieqiong (pictured) served as vice-mayor of Beijing and taught at Peking University until the age of 100? (2018-01-09)
... that modelling agent Cherry Marshall discovered Ruth Ellis, the last woman to be hanged in Britain? (2018-01-09)
... that in 1992, Camille Robinson-Regis became the youngest senator to be appointed to the cabinet of Trinidad and Tobago? (2018-01-08)
... that Silvia Correale, the first female Postulator in the Vatican, focuses on guiding potential Argentine saints through the beatification process? (2018-01-07)
... that Congolese artist Rhode Makoumbou sculpts figures up to 3 metres (10 ft) tall out of sawdust and woodglue? (2018-01-07)
... that Vice Admiral Mary M. Jackson was promoted directly from one-star to three-star rank? (2018-01-06)
... that Carys Bannister drove rally cars and exhibited corgis when not performing brain surgery? (2018-01-06)
... that at age 16, Remy Siemsen was the top goalscorer for Sydney FC in the 2016–17 W-League season? (2018-01-05)
... that Azazet Habtezghi Kidane interviewed more than 1,500 African refugees to document torture in the Sinai Peninsula? (2018-01-05)
... that Rear Admiral Cindy Jaynes was persuaded to join the United States Navy by a high school friend, having originally considered careers as an actuary or a veterinarian? (2018-01-04)
... that Shu Xiuwen (pictured) became an escort dancing girl after her father tried to sell her to repay debts, but later supported him when she became a movie star? (2018-01-03)
... that Eugénie Henderson taught Far Eastern languages to the British Armed Forces during World War II? (2018-01-03)
... that the dramatic soprano Catherine Foster, a former midwife, appeared as Brünnhilde at the Bayreuth Festival celebrating Wagner's bicentenary? (2018-01-03)
... that to ensure the loyalty of Queen Fatuma, a client ruler of Zanzibar, Omani forces kept a cannon trained on her palace? (2018-01-02)
... that the wounds of leprosy sufferer Josephine Cafrine were said to have miraculously healed after her death? (2018-01-01)
... that Doo Aphane successfully challenged a law that prevented married women from owning property in their own names in Swaziland? (2018-01-01)
... that Itunu Hotonu, the first female admiral in Africa, joined the Nigerian Navy only because she was rejected by the army? (2017-12-31)
... that Antoinette Montaigne left her position as city councillor in France to become a minister in the government of the Central African Republic? (2017-12-30)
... that Chief Suah Koko fought several battles against the Liberian government before granting them her land? (2017-12-28)
... that Ana Lucía Armijos, president of the Ecuadorian Monetary Board, went into hiding for a year after the Supreme Court of Ecuador called for her arrest in the case of a $200 million bank bailout? (2017-12-28)
... that Mollie McGeown set up the first dialysis unit in Northern Ireland? (2017-12-27)
... that Mozambican politician Ivone Soares escaped death in September 2016 when her would-be assassin's weapon jammed? (2017-12-27)
... that Zambian writer Samba Yonga chose a career in journalism after she won a short story prize as a child? (2017-12-26)
... that former international Ruth O'Reilly wrote an article criticising the IRFU for a lack of support during the 2017 Women's Rugby World Cup held in Ireland? (2017-12-26)
... that Rosemary Biggs and her colleagues discovered the Christmas factor? (2017-12-25)
... that Nicki McNelly, who spent most of her working life as an army wife, later became provost of an Episcopal cathedral? (2017-12-24)
... that women's rights campaigner Mozn Hassan is subject to a travel ban and has had her assets frozen by the Egyptian government? (2017-12-24)
... that E. Ann Hoefly was responsible for 180 United States Air Force medical facilities? (2017-12-23)
... that the asteroid 11441 Anadiego was named after Ana Teresa Diego, an Argentine student activist who was forcibly disappeared? (2017-12-23)
... that Victoria Yar Arol was one of 20–30 children of a Dinka tribal chief? (2017-12-22)
... that Dandara Touré served only 34 days in the Council of Ministers of Mali due to the 2012 coup? (2017-12-21)
... that Gambian politician Sirra Wally Ndow-Njie met with North Korean president of the Supreme People's Assembly Kim Yong-nam in 2010? (2017-12-20)
... that Ellie Miles captained Tunbridge Wells RFC's under-18 girls team after her father had captained and coached the men's team? (2017-12-20)
... that Rachel Skinner "fell into engineering completely by chance" before being named as one of the Top 50 Influential Women in Engineering? (2017-12-19)
... that in the 1960s, child psychiatrist Mildred Creak proposed that autism was caused by genetics rather than poor parenting? (2017-12-19)
... that North Korean footballer Sung Hyang-sim was the top scorer at the 2017 AFC U-19 Women's Championship and named Most Valuable Player? (2017-12-18)
... that Eunice Silva organised a nationwide vote to determine the seven wonders of Cape Verde? (2017-12-18)
... that the Northern Ireland women's national football team captain Marissa Callaghan went to university in the United States on a football scholarship? (2017-12-17)
... that Clotilde Niragira is secretary-general of the truth and reconciliation commission investigating the Burundian genocides? (2017-12-17)
... that Chanju Samantha Mwale was the first female lawyer to join the Malawian Defence Force? (2017-12-16)
... that before becoming director of the United States Census Bureau, Martha Farnsworth Riche earned a doctorate in French literature? (2017-12-15)
... that Marijke Nel represented South Africa in rugby union and Canada in tennis? (2017-12-15)
... that more than 2,100 years after Lady Gouyi (pictured) was ordered by the emperor to die, her mausoleum was robbed and more than 1,100 artifacts were stolen? (2017-12-15)
... that 'Neile Alina 'Mantoa Fanana was the first female ombudsman of Lesotho? (2017-12-14)
... that Magdalena Wolińska-Riedi was married by Pope Benedict XVI when he was a cardinal and had her childen baptized by him when he became Pope? (2017-12-14)
... that Arlinda Locklear was the first Native American woman to argue a case before the U.S. Supreme Court? (2017-12-14)
... that Indian independence activist Duvvuri Subbamma was married at the age of ten? (2017-12-13)
... that Célia Posser issued the first private radio broadcast licenses in São Tomé and Príncipe? (2017-12-12)
... that Abadi Bano Begum, a prominent voice in the Indian independence movement, pawned her personal jewelry to educate her sons? (2017-12-12)
... that it took Salma Ismail, the first Malaysian Malay woman to qualify as a doctor, 11 years to complete her medical studies? (2017-12-11)
... that Nicole Grobert, professor of nanomaterials at the University of Oxford, was awarded a Royal Society Industry Fellowship in 2016, her third fellowship from the Royal Society? (2017-12-11)
... that Femi Claudius Cole offers free health checks as she campaigns to become President of Sierra Leone? (2017-12-11)
... that Ireland national rugby union team player Dr. Claire McLaughlin gained the nickname "McSwaplin" owing to her swapping medical shifts in order to play rugby? (2017-12-10)
... that South African lawyer Sibongile Ndashe was arrested in Tanzania for advocating against an anti-gay law that limited treatment for HIV/AIDS? (2017-12-09)
... that Sheila Hibben supplied author Rex Stout with menus for his fictional character Nero Wolfe? (2017-12-09)
... that A. J. Foyt praised Arlene Hiss for "what a fine job [she'd] done" after racing against her? (2017-12-09)
... that Regina Mañe Ela was the only female member of Severo Moto Nsá's Equatorial Guinean government-in-exile? (2017-12-08)
... that Irish hockey umpire Carole Metchette was forced to retire from umpiring for being too old, despite having the highest fitness test results of any international umpire? (2017-12-08)
... that Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah writes a blog on African women's sexuality entitled Adventures from the Bedrooms of African Women? (2017-12-07)
... that early Canadian broadcaster Claire Wallace was known for her reporting stunts, including climbing a Mexican volcano and joining a deep-sea diving expedition? (2017-12-06)
... that Alice Ouédraogo runs the International Labour Organization's HIV/AIDS programme? (2017-12-06)
... that Elizabeth Marshall was one of the first women to become a pharmacist in the United States? (2017-12-05)
... that Nelly Mbangu co-founded an organisation for survivors of sexual and domestic violence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo? (2017-12-04)
... that Mary Munson Runge was the first female and first African-American president of the American Pharmacists Association? (2017-12-04)
... that marine biologist Marie Darby, the first New Zealand woman to visit the Antarctic mainland, sailed to the Ross Sea on a tourist boat that ran aground on its first trip? (2017-12-04)
... that Diana Beck performed brain surgery on Winnie-the-Pooh author A. A. Milne? (2017-12-04)
... that Suzanne Jambo helped draft the Constitution of South Sudan? (2017-12-03)
... that Jenny Morton discovered that sheep can recognise human faces? (2017-12-03)
... that Kenyan activist Josephine Kulea is said to have saved more than 1,000 girls from abuse and forced marriage? (2017-12-02)
... that from 1888 to 1895, Elizabeth Chambers Morgan was the leading woman in the Chicago labor movement? (2017-12-02)
... that in 1995, Nigerian activist Sokari Ekine set up the Black Sisters Network electronic mailing list? (2017-12-01)
... that Colorado businesswoman and philanthropist Merle Chambers is one of the top ten political contributors in her state? (2017-12-01)
... that Harimia Ahmed was the first female lawyer in the Comoros? (2017-12-01)
... that the British paediatrician Tina Cooper assisted the Sierra Leone government in establishing a national immunisation programme? (2017-11-30)
... that General Robert B. Abrams took "less than a second" to choose Laura J. Richardson as his deputy at United States Army Forces Command, despite never having worked with her? (2017-11-30)
... that South African-born Irish international rugby player Ilse van Staden is a butcher? (2017-11-30)
... that Mishkat al-Mumin's advocacy for women's rights angered jihadist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi? (2017-11-29)
... that Gillian Hanson was a world expert on treating the condition that ultimately killed her? (2017-11-29)
... that website designer Akaliza Keza Gara had to borrow a laptop from her client for her first commission? (2017-11-29)
... that Fatou Kiné Camara (pictured) campaigns for wider access to abortions in Senegal, which has some of the most restrictive abortion laws in Africa? (2017-11-28)
... that mezzo-soprano Mechthild Georg, a voice teacher at the Musikhochschule Köln, performed music by C. P. E. Bach at the first Rheingau Musik Festival? (2017-11-27)
... that Irene Ovonji-Odida advocated for the East African Community to broaden its scope beyond that of a trade bloc? (2017-11-27)
... that Ourida Chouaki co-ordinated the 20 ans, barakat! ("20 years is enough!") campaign to reform the Algerian Family Code? (2017-11-26)
... that Elizabeth M. Bryan's wedding was attended by 25 sets of twins? (2017-11-26)
... that Sheetal Pandey won her first election at the age of 63? (2017-11-25)
... that Jeanne LaDuke worked alongside Natalie Wood as a child actor before becoming a professional mathematician? (2017-11-25)
... that Estelle Cascarino represented France at the under-19 and under-20 levels in international tournaments in the same year? (2017-11-25)
... that Jane Wynne taught her fellow paediatricians to identify signs of child abuse? (2017-11-24)
... that Moroccan women's rights activist Fedwa Misk (pictured) named her online magazine Qandisha after a mythical jinn famous for her seductive powers? (2017-11-24)
... that Japanese artist and poet Chō Kōran became a specialist in ink paintings in the "Four Gentlemen" genre? (2017-11-24)
... that Lillian Bilocca threatened to picket British Prime Minister Harold Wilson's house if he did not impose stronger safety regulations on the fishing industry? (2017-11-23)
... that Ireland national rugby hooker Cliodhna Moloney is also a banker? (2017-11-23)
... that Tyler Toland became the Republic of Ireland's youngest women's senior international footballer in September 2017? (2017-11-22)
... that Olive Scott was Britain's first dedicated paediatric cardiologist? (2017-11-22)
... that Rama Pilot and Vijaya Kumari Ganti, both became members of the 13th Lok Sabha after winning by-elections prompted by the death of their respective husbands? (2017-11-21)
... that Nomfunelo Mabedla successfully campaigned for the former flag of South Africa (pictured) to be removed from the Castle of Good Hope because it upset her? (2017-11-21)
... that Ethiopian women's rights activist Nahu Senay Girma's given name means "something good is happening now" and is traditionally a masculine name? (2017-11-21)
... that the hospital in Southern Rhodesia where Theresa Robinson Buck worked was renamed in her honour after her death? (2017-11-19)
... that Irish rugby referee Joy Neville was the first woman to be an assistant referee in a men's European Challenge Cup match? (2017-11-19)
... that during her compulsory military service, Aya Koren played in an Israeli Air Force band with Yehuda Levi, her future co-star in Yossi & Jagger (2002)? (2017-11-19)
... that Miroslava Breach, a Mexican investigative journalist known for exposing human rights violations and political corruption, was murdered in March 2017? (2017-11-18)
... that Canadian abstract impressionist K.M. Graham began painting at the age of 50? (2017-11-18)
... that the English neurologist Honor Smith was sent to Morocco by the WHO to investigate an outbreak of paralysis caused by contaminated cooking oil? (2017-11-18)
... that Sushila Rani Patel taught actress Madhubala to speak, read, and write English? (2017-11-17)
... that Judith Kingston pioneered the use of chemotherapy to treat retinoblastoma, an eye cancer found in children? (2017-11-16)
... that Helene Bechstein helped to teach Hitler table manners? (2017-11-16)
... that Ahlem Belhadj led a march of thousands of women against President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali during the 2011 Tunisian Revolution? (2017-11-16)
... that Michèle Dix, managing director of the proposed £27 billion Crossrail 2 project, said she would like to run a tea room when she retires? (2017-11-15)
... that in her first senate speech, socialist politician Fatma Hikmet İşmen accused the Directorate of Religious Affairs of fueling discrimination against Alawites by Sunni Muslims? (2017-11-15)
... that Jamaican sprinter Dominique Blake was accidentally awarded a bronze medal at the 2012 Summer Olympics in the women's 4 × 400 m relay? (2017-11-14)
... that Barbara A. Bailar resigned from the United States Census Bureau in 1988 to protest a decision not to adjust the 1990 results for systematic undercounting of minorities? (2017-11-14)
... that Queen May Hnin Theindya of Pegu tried to save her husband Tarabya's life by tying her tresses with his? (2017-11-13)
... that the British physician Stephanie Amiel has specialised in type I diabetes since her time at Yale University in the 1980s? (2017-11-12)
... that Minori Suzuki beat 8,000 others who auditioned for the role of Freyja Wion in the anime series Macross Delta? (2017-11-09)
... that Lindsay Peat has represented Ireland internationally at association football, basketball, and rugby union? (2017-11-08)
... that the Malaysian High Court sentenced 22-year-old Frenchwoman Béatrice Saubin to death by hanging for smuggling 534 grams (1.177 lb) of pure grade heroin? (2017-11-06)
... that Patricia Moberly was once arrested for attacking Prime Minister Ted Heath's car with a placard? (2017-11-05)
... that rally driver Louise Cook sold her trophies on eBay to help her continue competing in the 2012 World Rally Championship after her funding dried up? (2017-11-01)
... that Kia Steave-Dickerson, the design artist for four films by M. Night Shyamalan, originally considered a career in dry cleaning? (2017-11-01)
... that Catie Munnings, winner of the 2016 FIA European Rally Championship Ladies' Trophy, was the first British driver to win a European rally title in 49 years? (2017-10-30)
... that Jean Ginsburg established one of the first clinics in Britain for menopausal women? (2017-10-29)
... that Eleri Rees became a judge without ever practising as a barrister? (2017-10-27)
... that the musicologist Beatrix Borchard researched female musicians such as Clara Schumann, Amalie Joachim, and Pauline Viardot, and worked for the Goethe-Institut in Portugal, Romania, and China? (2017-10-27)
... that Melahat Okuyan, a Turkish female microbiologist and AIDS activist, once proposed the establishment of male brothels for homosexuals and cross-dressers in order to improve public health? (2017-10-21)
... that Averil Mansfield, a former president of the British Medical Association, was Britain's first female professor of surgery? (2017-10-20)
... that Sheila Callender helped to establish the medical discipline of haematology? (2017-10-19)
... that Australian surgeon Helen Sexton came out of retirement to open a field hospital in France during World War I? (2017-10-19)
... that Selna Kaplan led the first clinical trials of artificial growth hormone in the United States? (2017-10-18)
... that mezzo-soprano Patricia Johnson appeared as Eboli at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, and created the roles of a Nabokov Princess and a Henze Baroness? (2017-10-18)
... that after nearly six decades of collecting Inuit sculptures and other art, Jacqui Shumiatcher gifted 1,310 pieces valued at CAD$3 million to the University of Regina? (2017-10-15)
... that Fannie Eleanor Williams created blood storage techniques used in the first Australian blood bank? (2017-10-12)
... that Leaena Tambyah founded Singapore's first school for children with multiple disabilities in 1979? (2017-10-09)
... that a 1912 party hosted by Vine Colby made the news for its originality? (2017-10-06)
... that twin sisters Bertha and Bernice C. Downing became owners and publishers of the Santa Clara Journal when they were 17 years old? (2017-10-05)
... that Judge Orfa Jean Shontz created an all female juvenile court with a homelike setting? (2017-10-04)
... that when operatic soprano Cynthia Clarey's voice lowered with age, she took up cabaret singing instead? (2017-10-04)
... that Christine Murrell was the first woman elected to the British General Medical Council, but died before she could take her seat? (2017-10-04)
... that the lack of breakfast pushed Mab Copland Lineman to fight against a labor union? (2017-10-03)
... that Jane Frances Winn was one of the first female journalists to cover women's golf events? (2017-10-02)
... that Caroline B. Winslow opened the Homeopathic Free Dispensary, the first facility in Washington, D.C. where women doctors could practice side-by-side with their male colleagues? (2017-10-01)
... that coloratura soprano Joan Carroll appeared as Alban Berg's Lulu more than 100 times, including the U.S. premiere at the Santa Fe Opera? (2017-09-30)
... that American soprano Pamela Coburn appeared as Mozart's Countess in Vienna and New York, and as Ellen, the friend of Peter Grimes, in Munich and at the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino? (2017-09-28)
... that illustrator Ida Waugh met her life partner Amy Ella Blanchard when the latter was hired as a tutor for her younger brother, future painter Frederick Judd Waugh? (2017-09-28)
... that Ada Bell Maescher produced Night Life in Hollywood as a propaganda film to depict Hollywood as a model city populated by home-loving people? (2017-09-27)
... that the 1896 novel The Courage of Her Convictions by Caroline Augusta Huling is the story of a woman who is artificially inseminated? (2017-09-25)
... that, in 1895, Orelia Key Bell dedicated a collection of poems to her "Heavenly Muse" Ida Jane Ash, next to whom she is now buried in Atlanta? (2017-09-24)
... that Nannie C. Dunsmoor, a Los Angeles pioneer woman physician practicing into her 80s, was the oldest United States active member of the Soroptimist Club? (2017-09-24)
... that Nancy Coonsman sculpted Victory, the war memorial erected in Cheppy, France, to honor the men from Missouri in the 35th Infantry Division killed during World War I? (2017-09-21)
... that the house of Judith Ellen Foster, the "Iowa lawyer" of the temperance movement, was burnt down, presumably by her opponents? (2017-09-21)
... that Paolo and Francesca, the second work "for Reader with Piano accompaniment" by pianist and composer Berenice Wyer, was performed in New York and Chicago? (2017-09-21)
... that as a high school student, Evin Demirhan supported her family of 13 by wrestling, and later became a bronze medalist in the 2017 World Wrestling Championships? (2017-09-20)
... that the Swiss mezzo-soprano Elisabeth Glauser performed in the Jahrhundertring in Bayreuth, and created the role of Babette in Henze's The English Cat? (2017-09-20)
... that Una R. Winter reported in 1935 that there was very little interest in women's suffrage in Mexico? (2017-09-19)
... that Theresa Meikle became the presiding judge of San Francisco County Superior Court in 1955, the first woman elected to such a position in any major American city? (2017-09-19)
... that Elizabeth Wade White was accepted into the B.Litt. program at Oxford, despite not having an undergraduate degree? (2017-09-18)
... that 19th-century concert singer Sarah Mundell Crane was the mother of silent movie actor Harry Ogden Crane? (2017-09-17)
... that Kim Cobb used coral to profile El Niño over seven thousand years? (2017-09-17)
... that librarian Jacqueline Noel gave Almond Roca candy its name? (2017-09-17)
... that Eleonore von Grothaus, a writer and poetess, raised thirteen children, including seven from her husband's first marriage, and educated a future queen? (2017-09-17)
... that Edith Kawelohea McKinzie was named a Living Treasure of Hawai'i after indexing early 19th-century Hawaiian-language newspapers and documenting the genealogy of the chiefs of Kahoolawe? (2017-09-17)
... that Reah Whitehead, the first female justice of the peace in Washington state, started her legal career as a stenographer? (2017-09-16)
... that Ida Hall Roby was the first woman to graduate from the Illinois College of Pharmacy at Northwestern University? (2017-09-15)
... that Caroline Stein appeared as Mozart's Queen of the Night at the Berlin State Opera, and sang his Mass in C minor and Alban Berg's Altenberg Lieder at The Proms? (2017-09-15)
... that someone told Kate Brew Vaughn that her eggless, sugarless, and butterless World War I Victory Cake was "joyless", but then ate three pieces? (2017-09-14)
... that Ida Hinman, author of a popular Washington, D.C. guidebook, died in poverty and her body was identified through a membership pin of the Daughters of the American Revolution? (2017-09-14)
... that Una B. Herrick was called a "trailblazer" as she "made a place for women" at Montana State College? (2017-09-12)
... that sculptor Thea Tewi, known for her work in stone, was also one of the United States' top lingerie designers? (2017-09-10)
... that American novelist Cynthia Propper Seton, who wrote about affluent, middle-aged wives and mothers dissatisfied with their lives, was often compared to Jane Austen? (2017-09-10)
... that Gerhild Romberger, an award-winning contralto and professor of voice, was a soloist in Mahler's Second Symphony at the Rheingau Musik Festival? (2017-09-09)
... that Adele Schulenburg Gleeson, an American sculptor active in Missouri and Connecticut, studied sculpture under George Julian Zolnay and Charles Grafly? (2017-09-08)
... that when her husband was shot by police during a Quit India protest march, Tara Rani Srivastava bandaged his wounds with her sari and continued leading the march? (2017-09-07)
... that according to reviewers, soprano Simone Schneider of the Staatsoper Stuttgart "expresses Alcestis' agitation, nobility and joy with a moving simplicity" and "was a headstrong, vibrant Empress"? (2017-09-06)
... that Danish historian Elisabeth Munksgaard was given a "fine finale" to her career with a costumed eleventh-century king? (2017-09-05)
... that Adeline Palmier Wagoner wrote Madame Beaulieu: A Colonial Dame, a biography of her ancestor, a social leader in Cahokia? (2017-09-05)
... that Geneve L. A. Shaffer, known as the "Skyscraper Girl", was the United States' first woman glider pilot? (2017-09-04)
... that American socialite Isabel Pell joined the Maquis and rescued a contingent of American soldiers in France during World War II? (2017-09-02)
... that Carol Smith appeared as Verdi's Eboli, Amneris and Azucena at the Opernhaus Zürich, and recorded his Mrs. Quickly in German? (2017-09-02)
... that Lillie Rose Ernst, the first woman assistant superintendent of instruction in the St. Louis public school system, was the mentor of The Potters? (2017-09-01)
... that when Helen Huntington Hull inherited Among the Sierra Nevada, California (pictured) by Albert Bierstadt, she had it glued directly to a wall of her mansion? (2017-09-01)
... that Elisabeth Kulman, Gora in the premiere of Reimann's Medea at the Vienna State Opera, changed from soprano to mezzo, and from opera singer to concert singer? (2017-09-01)
... that E. Joy Johnson wrote The Foreman of the J.A.6. based on her experience owning a ranch in frontierland Wyoming? (2017-08-31)
... that in the 1920s, Dolly Rudeman was one of the most prolific designers of movie posters and programs for the Dutch cinema, and the only woman working in the field at the time? (2017-08-30)
... that in 1975, Barbara May Cameron, a member of the Hunkpapa Lakota, co-founded the first gay Indian organization in San Francisco? (2017-08-30)
... that Amabel Anderson Arnold, a St. Louis lawyer and law professor, received degrees from both Benton College of Law and City College of Law and Finance within a five-day period? (2017-08-29)
... that Maria Riccarda Wesseling appeared as Gluck's Orfeo in Paris and at the Ancient Theatre of Epidaurus, and as Henze's Phaedra in Berlin? (2017-08-28)
... that C. Louise Boehringer, the first female Superintendent of Schools in Yuma County, has often been called "the mother of the Arizona educational system"? (2017-08-28)
... that Caroline Risque (pictured) made the bronze busts of the four founders of Stix Baer & Fuller? (2017-08-25)
... that Priya Jhingan is the first woman to join the Indian Army as an officer? (2017-08-23)
... that Alma Lutz was the biographer of women's rights activists including Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Emma Willard? (2017-08-22)
... that award-winning soprano Christiane Karg appeared as Sophie at the Frankfurt Opera, the Semperoper and La Scala, and in Mahler's Second Symphony at the Rheingau Musik Festival? (2017-08-20)
... that when the Minneapolis School Board decided to include North Germanic languages in the curriculum, Maren Michelet became the first teacher of Norwegian in a public high school in the US? (2017-08-19)
... that L. Fidelia Woolley Gillette was one of the first women to be ordained as a Universalist minister in the United States, and the first woman ordained of any denomination in Canada? (2017-08-18)
... that in 1977, symphony conductor Helen Quach was one of two women who led major orchestras anywhere in the world? (2017-08-15)
... that Rano M. Shaiza helped further the Naga peace accord by brokering a meeting between her uncle, the founder of the Naga separatist movement, and the Prime Minister of India? (2017-08-14)
... that Katharine Peabody Loring taught history with Alice James at the first correspondence school in the United States? (2017-08-13)
... that the Slovenian soprano Sabina Cvilak (pictured) was Puccini's Mimi in Washington, Wagner's Sieglinde in Wiesbaden, and performed Britten's War Requiem in London on the composer's centenary? (2017-08-10)
... that Céleste Mogador may have been the inspiration for the title character in Georges Bizet's opera Carmen? (2017-08-08)
... that Melusine, the second opera by Aribert Reimann, premiered at the Schlosstheater Schwetzingen in 1971 and was revived in 2016 by students in Berlin for the composer's 80th birthday? (2017-08-07)
... that Clementina Anstruther-Thomson and Vernon Lee openly lived together as a lesbian couple during the Victorian era? (2017-08-06)
... that in a pioneering study, American pedagogue Florence E. Bamberger quantified the effects of book design on stimulating a child's interest in reading? (2017-08-03)
... that an ultra-Orthodox mother of eleven runs the office of the President of Israel? (2017-08-01)
... that Mitali Madhumita is the first female officer in the Indian Army to receive a gallantry award? (2017-08-01)
... that Gertrude Förstel was Sophie when Der Rosenkavalier was first performed in Vienna, and sang in the premieres of Tiefland and Mahler's Eighth Symphony? (2017-07-30)
... that Mithuben Petit, a woman freedom fighter during the British Raj, played a major part in the Salt March with Mahatma Gandhi? (2017-07-28)
... that contralto Ruth Siewert appeared as Erda not only in Bayreuth, but also at La Scala, La Fenice, and La Monnaie? (2017-07-27)
... that Grace Hutchins promoted a radical Christian pacifist movement in the United States? (2017-07-27)
... that Hendrika B. Cantwell, one of the first physicians in the US to work for a child protection agency, came in contact with an estimated 30,000 cases of suspected child abuse and neglect? (2017-07-25)
... that Shanno Devi was the first woman speaker of a State Assembly in India? (2017-07-23)
... that Paula Murrihy, who appeared in operatic title roles such as Dido, Carmen, Hänsel and the Rosenkavalier, sang Lieder with viola and piano for the Hessischer Rundfunk? (2017-07-23)
... that Nicole Chevalier was awarded Der Faust for her performance of the four female characters in Offenbach's Les Contes d'Hoffman at the Komische Oper Berlin? (2017-07-22)
... that the story of Hannah Norsa (pictured) has been described as "an archetypal tale of how stage stardom might lead to social transformation"? (2017-07-22)
... that Sue Alexander tapped into her grief over her younger brother's death to write a children's book about a Bedouin girl dealing with the same issue? (2017-07-21)
... that Doris Frankel won an Emmy for her work on All My Children? (2017-07-18)
... that Melanie Lewy had to sell some of her clothes to pay for her husband's funeral? (2017-07-17)
... that Canadian theoretical physicist Helen Freedhoff was doctoral advisor to Schrödinger's grandson? (2017-07-16)
... that Ivan and Nina Efimov, known as the Adam and Eve of Russian puppetry, lived for six years largely on earnings from their traveling puppet show (pictured)? (2017-07-14)
... that after lobbying to regulate the licensing of nurses in Colorado, Louie Croft Boyd applied for and became the first licensed nurse in the state? (2017-07-14)
... that Lioba Braun, who became known appearing as Brangäne in Bayreuth in 1994, was the first soloist to record Reger's Die Weihe der Nacht? (2017-07-14)
... that Kate Devlin is a computer scientist working in the field of sex robots and human-computer interaction? (2017-07-14)
... that Dutch politician Annelien Kappeyne van de Coppello was the first person to introduce protection of lesbian rights and anti-discrimination measures at an official UN conference? (2017-07-13)
... that Juana Bordas says her parents were uncomfortable with the idea of her leaving home to go to college due to the "crab syndrome"? (2017-07-12)
... that Joan Birkland won both the Colorado state tennis and golf championships in the same summer ... twice? (2017-07-11)
... that Maria Friesenhausen sang soprano solo with the NDR Chor in the 1950s and trained students of the University of Dortmund for an opera performance in 2001? (2017-07-10)
... that Dara Hobbs appeared as Wagner's Isolde at many venues, including Theater Bonn, Stadttheater Minden, and Schloss Neuschwanstein? (2017-07-10)
... that Claudia Barainsky performed operatic title roles including Daphne, Lulu, Medea, and Melusine? (2017-07-07)
... that in 1972, Colorado engineering technician Janet Bonnema legally challenged the superstition that a woman who went underground into a tunnel or mine brought bad luck? (2017-07-06)
... that table tennis player and model Soo Yeon Lee (pictured) has coached numerous celebrities and is a brand ambassador for a chain of table tennis bars? (2017-06-30)
... that a Lebanese postage stamp featuring Anissa Rawda Najjar was issued in 2014, soon after her 100th birthday? (2017-06-30)
... that Margit Neubauer appeared as Sesto in Handel's Giulio Cesare, conducted by Nikolaus Harnoncourt, at the start of her 39-year career at the Frankfurt Opera? (2017-06-26)
... that a recording of Bartók's Bluebeard's Castle with Cornelia Kallisch as Judith was nominated for a Grammy Award? (2017-06-22)
... that Frieda Fraser and Edith Williams corresponded for 24 years before they were able to acquire a home to live together in 1941? (2017-06-20)
... that May Bonfils Stanton built an exact replica of Marie Antoinette's Petit Trianon château (pictured) on her estate in Lakewood, Colorado? (2017-06-19)
... that Jennie Anderson Froiseth, an anti-polygamy crusader during the 1800s, published a book about the experiences of women in polygamous marriages? (2017-06-18)
... that Taufa Vakatale was the first indigenous Fijian woman to serve as a secondary school principal, to be elected as a cabinet minister, and to be president of her political party? (2017-06-03)
... that Ivy Josiah led opposition to domestic violence against women and children in Malaysia? (2017-06-01)
... that mezzo-soprano Eva Randová was nominated for the Laurence Olivier Award for her performance as the Kostelnička Buryjovka in Janáček's Jenůfa at the Royal Opera House? (2017-05-31)
... that the Native Hawaiian suffragist Wilhelmina Widemann Dowsett organized the first women's suffrage club in the Territory of Hawaii and believed women were superior to men? (2017-05-29)
... that the soprano Margot Guilleaume recorded the part of Marzelline in Beethoven's Fidelio in a complete live recording without dialogue in 1948? (2017-05-27)
... that Albertine Lapensée, described as Canada's first female ice hockey "superstar", was dogged by accusations of being a man? (2017-05-27)
... that Mary Ann Harris Gay's memoir Life in Dixie During the War directly inspired several of the scenes in the novel Gone with the Wind? (2017-05-26)
... that Jeanette Antolin won three NCAA titles with the UCLA Bruins women's gymnastics team? (2017-05-23)
... that Kong Tai Heong, the first Chinese woman to practice medicine in Hawaii, was credited by Ripley's Believe It or Not! as having delivered over 6,000 babies? (2017-05-19)
... that several buildings by Ellamae Ellis League are listed in the National Register of Historic Places, including the home she built for herself? (2017-05-14)
... that the contralto Anna Erler-Schnaudt performed in the premiere of Mahler's Eighth Symphony in 1910? (2017-05-07)
... that the linguistic research of Elena Georgieva showed that Bulgarian word order may change based on the emphasis a speaker wants to convey? (2017-04-28)
... that microbiologist Jane Gibson established through her 1954 discovery that selenium, a trace element, is essential for coliform bacterial growth? (2017-04-20)
... that Ursula Zollenkopf, a contralto of the NWDR Chor, performed solo and choral parts in a posthumous Schoenberg opera premiere and in an Easter cantata by Bach? (2017-04-16)
... that Helen King is the first police officer to head an Oxbridge college? (2017-04-15)
... that Ellen Thayer Fisher's paintings of flowers (example pictured) were widely distributed as chromolithographs by Boston publisher Louis Prang? (2017-04-15)
... that the Danish illustrator Lilian Brøgger has illustrated over a hundred books in a variety of unconventional styles? (2017-04-13)
... that award-winning graphic novelist Miriam Katin only started creating comics at the age of 63? (2017-04-12)
... that Punch honoured Agnata Ramsay's exam success with a cartoon (pictured)? (2017-04-09)
... that Rose Cannabich was "a very beautiful and well-behaved girl", according to her piano teacher Mozart, who composed a piano sonata for her? (2017-04-08)
... that Barbara Bradby was the first woman to ride a bicycle at Oxford University, where her academic prowess inspired a limerick? (2017-04-07)
... that two women captured in Boston under the Fugitive Slave Act of 1793 were rescued during the Abolition Riot of 1836? (2017-04-05)
... that mezzo-soprano Claudia Mahnke appeared as Dido in Les Troyens by Berlioz, and according to a reviewer, in the final 25 minutes convincingly ranged from hurt vulnerability to furious despair? (2017-04-04)
... that Belgian mezzo-soprano Jeanne Deroubaix was a soloist in the premiere of Stravinsky's Threni, and performed with Boulez in his Le marteau sans maître at The Proms? (2017-03-31)
... that Danish artist Lucie Ingemann (pictured), known for her large altarpieces depicting biblical figures, also created flower paintings with religious and mystical themes? (2017-03-30)
... that the soprano Leonore Kirschstein appeared as Alice Ford, with Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau as Falstaff? (2017-03-29)
... that the American contralto Margarethe Bence appeared as Marcellina at the Salzburg Festival, as Erda in Bayreuth, and in a premiere at the Schwetzingen Festival? (2017-03-24)
... that mezzo-soprano Tanja Ariane Baumgartner has portrayed such characters as Schoeck's Penthesilea, and Cassandre in Les Troyens? (2017-03-22)
... that suffragist Jane Maria Strachey was born on a ship off the Cape of Good Hope in 1840? (2017-03-20)
... that Liza Ferschtman used seven different violins for her "tour de force" performance of the Rosary Sonatas? (2017-03-18)
... that in 1994, the fantasy novel The Kingdom of Kevin Malone by Suzy McKee Charnas won the Mythopoeic Society Award in the Children's Literature category? (2017-03-17)
... that the American Leonie Turpeau, the Nicaraguan Maymie de Mena, and the Jamaican Madame Aiken were the same person? (2017-03-16)
... that Denver, Colorado, philanthropist Helen Bonfils inherited US$14 million from her father and US$10 million from her mother? (2017-03-16)
... that the mezzo-soprano Iris Vermillion, who became known for Mozart roles with Harnoncourt in 1988, received a prize for her portrayal of Schoeck's Penthesilea at the Semperoper 20 years later? (2017-03-15)
... that 50 years after a mural by Fay E. Davis depicting Native Americans in battle was installed in the post office in Oglesby, Illinois, a janitor claimed it was pornographic? (2017-03-15)
... that Therese Benedek submitted to a five-month training analysis under an associate of Freud before embarking on her own career in psychoanalysis? (2017-03-13)
... that after the disappearance of Dora Bloch, Britain cut all diplomatic ties with Uganda? (2017-03-13)
... that Mary Boggs and her first husband won the competition to create the United States post office mural in Newton, Mississippi? (2017-03-09)
... that men and women from the Sidama people sing radically different songs about Queen Furra? (2017-03-09)
... that Rosemary Vrablic has been called "Trump's personal banker"? (2017-03-08)
... that Mary Hogarth (pictured) is believed to be the inspiration for Charles Dickens' characters Rose in Oliver Twist and Little Nell in The Old Curiosity Shop? (2017-03-08)
... that the diary of Mary Hardy (pictured) provides a detailed record of an 18th-century English farming and brewing business? (2017-03-08)
... that Marjorie G. Horning demonstrated that drugs and their metabolites can be transferred from a pregnant woman to her developing child? (2017-03-08)
... that besides reporting on Aimee Semple McPherson's visit to Denver in 1921, Helen Marie Black arranged publicity stunts to show off the evangelist's preaching and faith healing skills? (2017-03-08)
... that the soprano Erna Ellmenreich appeared in the premieres of Ariadne auf Naxos by Richard Strauss and of Hindemith's Mörder, Hoffnung der Frauen, the latter causing a scandal? (2017-03-08)
... that Maria Luise Thurmair published the "love talks" she exchanged with her husband when he was a soldier in World War II, and wrote the lyrics for many hymns in the Gotteslob? (2017-02-28)
... that Maria Eugenia Bozzoli was one of the founders of anthropology in Costa Rica? (2017-02-27)
... that the anthropologist Ingeborg Weber-Kellermann, who made field trips to villages in Slavonia, Transylvania, and Turkey, met Jews after they were liberated from Theresienstadt? (2017-02-27)
... that from 1973 until 2012, Myra Nimmo held the Scottish women's national long jump record? (2017-02-18)
... that over a 22-year period, Colorado cattle ranch owner Sue Anschutz-Rodgers increased her stock from 33 cows and a single bull to 1,700 head of cattle? (2017-02-15)
... that the British anthropologist Karin Barber started her academic career at the University of Ife, where she was required to teach in Yoruba? (2017-02-15)
... that gospel street singer Flora Molton performed in downtown Washington, D.C., into her eighties? (2017-02-14)
... that the British anthropologist Wendy James started her academic career at the University of Khartoum in Sudan? (2017-02-13)
... that 17th-century Polish poet Anna Stanisławska wrote about her life and three marriages as a series of 77 laments? (2017-02-11)
... that King Razadarit once sent Queen Thuddhamaya in a golden litter to one of his top commanders, despite her objections? (2017-02-09)
... that Czech-Israeli food technology researcher Zdenka Samish said that every fruit and vegetable can be made into jam? (2017-02-03)
... that the East German actress Sonja Kehler, who was known for singing Brecht, taught acting in Denmark? (2017-02-02)
... that Jean Davies, then a junior officer in the Women's Royal Naval Service, attended Winston Churchill's 69th birthday party along with President Franklin Roosevelt and Soviet Marshal Josef Stalin? (2017-01-31)
... that economics professor Carolyn Shaw Bell established a model that sent a disproportionate number of students at Wellesley College into careers in economics and business? (2017-01-31)
... that as CEO of Intel Israel, Maxine Fassberg encouraged women, Arabs, Druze, and Haredi Jews to enter the high-tech sector? (2017-01-29)
... that when Sarah Bavly arrived in Jerusalem to open a nutrition department in a new health center, she was forced to hide in the building for a week due to the outbreak of the 1929 Palestine riots? (2017-01-28)
... that Carolyn B. Shelton became the first female governor in the United States when she spent a weekend as acting governor of Oregon in 1909? (2017-01-27)
... that Grace Bochenek (pictured), an engineer and director of the U.S. National Energy Technology Laboratory, is the acting Secretary of Energy until the expected confirmation of Rick Perry? (2017-01-26)
... that after six decades subscribing to left-wing ideology, German-Israeli novelist Naomi Frankel (pictured) adopted right-wing ideology and moved to the West Bank? (2017-01-25)
... that for Givat Brenner's 25th anniversary, kibbutz theatre director Shulamit Bat-Dori staged an open-air play with a cast and crew of 1,000, before an audience of 10,000? (2017-01-22)
... that in 2015, Alison Hughes was part of the first ever all-female officiating team in a Fed Cup final? (2017-01-21)
... that the classical pianist Yara Bernette was praised for her interpretation of Variations on a Theme from the Northeast of Brazil by the composer, Camargo Guarnieri? (2017-01-19)
... that Mildred Albert, nicknamed the "Mighty Atom", produced thousands of fashion shows during her career? (2017-01-16)
... that epidemiologist Yasmin Altwaijri encourages other Saudi Arabian women to become scientists, arguing that this need not "cross the boundaries of our societal norms and customs"? (2017-01-15)
... that Salinee Tavaranan and her Border Green Energy Team installed solar panels and micro-hydro turbines at the Mae La refugee camp? (2017-01-15)
... that Elisheva Barak-Ussoskin's rulings on labor law and labor relations were said to have furthered the rights of workers more than those of any other Israeli judge? (2017-01-13)
... that Polish Jewish writer Rokhl Auerbakh worked overtly as the director of a soup kitchen and covertly as a member of a secret group that chronicled daily life in the Warsaw Ghetto? (2017-01-12)
... that cancer biologist Lubna Tahtamouni earned her PhD abroad and encouraged students from underprivileged regions of her native Jordan to do the same? (2017-01-11)
... that Bronx High School of Science graduate Naomi Amir is credited as "the founder of modern child neurology in Israel"? (2017-01-10)
... that the 1967 book Filipson by Frida Alexandr is the only first-hand description of life in that early 20th-century Brazilian Jewish farming colony written by a woman who lived there? (2017-01-10)
... that Lucy Finch founded the first hospice in Malawi, a country where about a million people are living with HIV/AIDS? (2017-01-09)
... that although Susan Reeve Lyon could not own property while a married woman, she was able to run her own apothecary shop as a widow? (2017-01-02)
... that Jessamyn Rodriguez founded a social enterprise teaching bread-making and job skills to low-income minority women and immigrants? (2017-01-02)
... that Nancy Sottos helped create the first polymeric self-healing material, announced in Nature in 2001? (2017-01-01)
... that Gaye LeBaron wrote more than 8,000 columns for The Press Democrat of Santa Rosa, California, and hers were considered "the most popular feature in the paper"? (2016-12-26)
... that pastry chef Carine Goren was the most googled person in Israel in 2015? (2016-12-16)
... that the labour studies scholar Kendra Coulter calls for interspecies solidarity between human and animal workers? (2016-12-14)
... that at age 22, Judith Hemmendinger helped rehabilitate nearly 100 child survivors of the Buchenwald concentration camp, among them Elie Wiesel? (2016-12-14)
... that eleven publishers vied for the rights to Jessie Burton's debut novel The Miniaturist? (2016-12-01)
... that Auschwitz survivor Bat-Sheva Dagan writes Holocaust stories for children that have happy endings "in order not to rob them of their faith in mankind"? (2016-11-29)
... that nurse Inès de Bourgoing (pictured) was named Honorary Corporal of the Foreign Legion after she established a convalescent hospital in Morocco and a retirement center in France for French soldiers? (2016-11-09)
... that Mary Chubb was an "accidental archaeologist" who only took a job with the Egypt Exploration Society so she could pay for art school? (2016-11-07)
... that the bioarchaeologist Charlotte Roberts once worked as a nurse on a burns unit? (2016-11-02)
... that Mary Kitson Clark's 1935 book A Gazetteer of Roman Remains in East Yorkshire is still a basic guide to the study of the Roman presence in northern England? (2016-10-30)
... that 18th-century chemist Claudine Picardet translated scientific articles from Swedish, English, German, and Italian into French? (2016-10-27)
... that the archaeologist Lily Chitty was a Land Girl during the First World War? (2016-10-21)
... that in 1974, Barbara Thoman Curtis led the establishment of the American Nurses Association's first political action committee? (2016-10-14)
... that Gadis Arivia established Indonesia’s first journal of feminist theory? (2016-10-09)
... that Irish suffragette Cissie Cahalan argued against gender-segregated trade unions? (2016-09-28)
... that guest lecturers at the Bryn Mawr Summer School for Women Workers in Industry (students pictured) included W. E. B. Du Bois, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Margaret Sanger? (2016-09-27)
... that after winning the Military Medal for bravery in the First World War, the nurse Violetta Thurstan (pictured) studied weaving and ran camps where displaced Bedouin women made carpets? (2016-09-23)
... that Pearl McIver was the first person employed by the United States Public Health Service as a consultant on nursing administration? (2016-09-22)
... that in 1919, Rose Finkelstein Norwood helped lead 8,000 switchboard operators in a six-day strike that paralyzed telephone service throughout New England? (2016-09-21)
... that Joy Ufema's fellow nurses felt she had been given too much autonomy when she started granting last wishes to dying patients? (2016-09-21)
... that the entomologist Alice Gray became known as the "Bug Lady" for her work with the public at the American Museum of Natural History? (2016-09-17)
... that in 2010 Joanne M. Maguire became the first woman to receive the International von Kármán Wings Award? (2016-08-23)
... that in 1974 the anthropologist Reina Torres de Araúz was the first woman distinguished as a full member of the Panamanian Academy of History? (2016-08-18)
... that botanist Dame Margaret Blackwood studied pine trees and maize, and had a species of fungus named after her? (2016-08-07)
... that Manika Batra started playing table tennis at the age of four, and turned down modelling offers as a teenager? (2016-08-06)
... that in 2011, Argentinian lawyer Elsa Kelly was appointed the first woman judge on the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea? (2016-08-03)
... that even though they are siblings and deputies, Hernán Orantes López and María Elena Orantes López do not represent the same political party? (2016-07-31)
... that Priscilla Nzimiro was the first woman from Igboland, Nigeria, to qualify as a medical doctor? (2016-07-23)
... that Jeanne Burbank designed batteries for the first nuclear submarine, the USS Nautilus (SSN-571)? (2016-07-21)
... that Daisy Earles (pictured) of the Doll Family was known as a "miniature Mae West"? (2016-07-21)
... that Helen Copenhaver Hanes helped raise over $850,000 to guarantee the University of North Carolina School of the Arts would be based in Winston-Salem? (2016-07-20)
... that the botanist Ethel Thomas designed the University of London's botany garden in Regent's Park? (2016-07-20)
... that as executive director of the Maine Women's Lobby from 1993 to 2003, Laura Fortman successfully lobbied for laws benefiting reproductive rights, victims' rights, and equal pay for equal work? (2016-07-18)
... that Roxana Cannon Arsht was the first woman appointed judge in Delaware? (2016-07-17)
... that Karen Heck, a women's rights activist and former mayor of Waterville, Maine, co-owns a winery that is the sole distiller of absinthe in New England? (2016-07-16)
... that Annie Rowan Forney Daugette, the designer of the Seal of Alabama, was described as the "Betsy Ross of Alabama"? (2016-07-16)
... that in 1984 Maine lawyer Linda Smith Dyer rebutted opponents' claims that passage of the Equal Rights Amendment would legalize same-sex marriage in the state? (2016-07-14)
... that Rima Melati (pictured) took part of her stage name from Audrey Hepburn's character in Green Mansions? (2016-07-12)
... that South Korean animator Mari Kim produced the music video for 2NE1's "Hate You", which depicts the group as "eyedoll" action heroines? (2016-07-12)
... that Teresa Feoderovna Ries' first exhibition at the Vienna Künstlerhaus included a sculpture of a nude witch snipping her toenails, making Ries an overnight sensation? (2016-07-11)
... that Roya Sadat and her sister Alka Sadat, directors of feature films and documentaries in the post Taliban regime in Afghanistan, established the Roya Film House? (2016-07-10)
... that Esna was one of the songwriters of "Some", which topped the Billboard Korea K-Pop Hot 100 for six weeks? (2016-07-10)
... that Indriati Iskak went from film star to psychologist to marketer? (2016-07-09)
... that Gerd Neggo trained with Rudolf von Laban in Hamburg, Germany, established her dance studio at Tallinn, Estonia, and promoted modern dance and mime based on classical ballet? (2016-07-09)
... that Farida Arriany won a Best Leading Actress at the 1960 Indonesian Film Week? (2016-07-08)
... that singer-songwriter Whang Bo-ryung's third album was written in a calming acoustic style as a response to chaotic world events such as the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster? (2016-07-07)
... that in 1941 Michelle Tisseyre (pictured) was the first woman to present a 15-minute newsletter broadcast in the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's French services? (2016-07-07)
... that the Medical Women's Federation was formed in the UK in 1917 and has acted to address workplace and educational grievances of female doctors? (2016-07-07)
... that Lois Jones led the first all-woman science team to Antarctica in 1969? (2016-07-06)
... that The Imitation Game producer Nora Grossman persuaded Andrew Hodges to let her turn his book into a film even though she had no producing experience? (2016-07-04)
... that Ruthie Tompson was offered a job by Walt Disney while working at the riding club where he played polo? (2016-07-01)
... that Mary Farrar, a victims' advocate for over 20 years, had an older brother who was shot and killed during a robbery at their family's scrap metal business? (2016-06-30)
... that In-Young Ahn (pictured) was the first Korean woman to visit Antarctica? (2016-06-28)
... that Felicity Okpete Ovai was the first female commissioner of the Rivers State Ministry of Works? (2016-06-28)
... that a 1980s slide show of Asian lesbians in history and literature created by June Chan and Katherine Hall has been called "grassroots scholarship"? (2016-06-27)
... that while Inger Hanmann created enamels for the Copenhagen Airport, her daughter Charlotte made processed photographs of the urban environment? (2016-06-27)
... that the ancient Jewish tomb (pictured) of Rachel, wife of Rabbi Akiva, was "rediscovered" in 1993 in a disused Muslim cemetery in Tiberias? (2016-06-26)
... that motsoalle is the term for socially acceptable, long-term relationships between Basotho women in Lesotho? (2016-06-26)
... that after retiring as dean of the College of Home Economics at the University of Rhode Island, Elizabeth W. Crandall became an environmental and women's rights activist in Maine? (2016-06-22)
... that Ukrainian-American endocrinologist Ricka Sapiro Finkler began using the name Rita after Saint Vincent's Hospital offered her a job which they later retracted when they discovered she was a woman? (2016-06-19)
... that Margarete Zuelzer, only the 37th woman to earn a doctorate at the University of Heidelberg, had to get special permission from her professors to attend their classes? (2016-06-18)
... that Hannah Chaplin, the mother of the silent screen star Charlie Chaplin, was a British music hall performer who used the stage name Lily Harley? (2016-06-17)
... that Utako Okamoto, discoverer of tranexamic acid, worked with her infant daughter on her back in the laboratory, as she could not find child care? (2016-06-16)
... that Gaëlle Ghesquière, French photographer, journalist and author, achieved fame photographing pop-rock artists on stage, such as Madonna, and Mick Jagger? (2016-06-16)
... that Jung Mina's song "Jumeokbab" is about her selling rice balls near Gwanghwamun Station? (2016-06-15)
... that Ora Mendelsohn Rosen and her colleagues achieved a scientific breakthrough by cloning the human insulin receptor gene? (2016-06-14)
... that Louise Stevens Bryant, a secretary for the Girl Scouts, also worked with the English sexologist Havelock Ellis? (2016-06-13)
... that a Torah scroll commissioned by the Women's Torah Project was written by female scribes and clothed in a mantle stitched with items of clothing donated by women? (2016-06-12)
... that Yiddish poet Rivka Basman Ben-Hayim began writing poetry to cheer up fellow inmates at the Kaiserwald concentration camp during World War II? (2016-06-11)
... that Mel Eslyn began working on film sets when she was 14 years old? (2016-06-11)
... that game developers changed the victory pose for the Overwatch character Tracer, after a fan noted that her original pose was over sexualized? (2016-06-06)
... that Birgit Jürgenssen, an Austrian photographer, painter, graphic artist, curator and teacher, was acclaimed as one of the "outstanding international representatives of the feminist avant-garde"? (2016-06-05)
... that Maria Antonia Merkelbach (pictured) and her husband took many portrait pictures of Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands, one of which was chosen as the state photograph? (2016-06-03)
... that Mary Cabot Wheelwright (pictured as a child) recorded details about Navajo ceremonies in the early 20th century from medicine man Hosteen Klah? (2016-06-02)
... that Debra Marquart left Napoleon, North Dakota, to tour with rock bands and returned to teach writers' workshops in Bakken oil field communities most affected by hydraulic fracking? (2016-06-02)
... that ballet photographer Nina Alovert's subjects have included Mikhail Baryshnikov, Vladimir Malakhov, and Yulia Makhalina? (2016-06-01)
... that Lili Almog exhibited a photographic series titled "Perfect Intimacy" in 2006, specifically made by her in three Carmel monasteries in Haifa, Bethlehem, and Port Tobacco? (2016-05-29)
... that in May 1926 investigator Rose Mackenberg testified before Congress about fraudulent mediums with her mentor, Harry Houdini? (2016-05-26)
... that Rathika Ramasamy's wildlife photographs (example pictured) were exhibited at the Clean Ganga Campaign held at the India International Centre in September 2005? (2016-05-26)
... that Barbara Tsakirgis worked at archaeological excavation sites in Sicily for her doctoral thesis on the subject of Hellenistic houses at Morgantina? (2016-05-25)
... that Mattie Edwards Hewitt was described as "one of the best known and most lyrical garden photographers of her day"? (2016-05-23)
... that in 1930, at Effendi's request, Euphemia Eleanor Baker toured incognito, mostly dressed in a black chador, to photograph locations associated with the origins of the Babí and Bahá'í Faith? (2016-05-22)
... that Josephine Nesbit, an American army nurse and second-in-command of the Angels of Bataan, was credited with their survival through internment at Santo Tomas? (2016-05-18)
... that graffiti by artist Heba Amin which appeared in an episode of the television series Homeland included phrases in Arabic such as "Homeland is racist"? (2016-05-18)
... that after serving as a temporary secretary to George Bernard Shaw, Mabel McConnell Fitzgerald tried to convert him to Irish separatism? (2016-05-13)
... that, speaking at the 2014 Conference on the Culture of Peace, Vijaya Melnick said that violence against women "continues to be our greatest shame and tragedy"? (2016-05-12)
... that Chan Yuen-ting was the first female manager to lead a men's association football team to a league championship in a nation's top league? (2016-05-09)
... that Wajida Tabassum's story Hand Me Downs, published in 1994, was made into a movie under the title Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love? (2016-05-08)
... that Ina Plug's research work on fossils from a site of an Early Iron Age settlement in the farm "Diamant" near Ellisr in South Africa was of domestic dogs dated to 570 AD? (2016-05-08)
... that before Hu Lanqi (pictured) became China's first female major general, she was a magazine cover girl, a prisoner of Nazi Germany, and was invited to Moscow by Maxim Gorky? (2016-05-07)
... that Canadian classical scholar Elizabeth Caskey supervised and summarised annual archaeological trench excavations in Greece? (2016-05-06)
... that Helen Matusevich Oujesky pursued environmental research on pollution of soil and water, particularly of toxic wastes? (2016-05-04)
... that American journalist Elizabeth Peer was Newsweek's first female foreign correspondent, foreign bureau chief, and war correspondent? (2016-05-04)
... that the poets Sajida and Zahida Zaidi, professors at the Aligarh Muslim University, were known as the "Zaidi Sisters" in the literary community? (2016-05-03)
... that Zahida Khatun Sherwani wrote poetry in Urdu under the pseudonyms "Zay Khay Sheen" and "Nuzhat", as the then-Muslim society did not permit women to write poetry or further women's causes? (2016-05-03)
... that Elisabeth von Heyking's debut novel sold out within three weeks of its release? (2016-05-02)
... that rabbi Carole B. Balin rediscovered the existence of 67 Jewish women writers from the late 19th- and early 20th-century Russian Empire? (2016-05-01)
... that forensic chemist Mary Louisa Willard was referred to as "Lady Sherlock" for assisting law enforcement officials? (2016-04-30)
... that Bogna Burska's initial painting compositions were narratives of congealed blood forms made with red paints applied by fingers on walls, canvas, and glass? (2016-04-27)
... that Zohreh Tabatabai coordinated with more than 100 heads of state to plan the United Nations' Fiftieth Anniversary Celebration? (2016-04-26)
... that the British poet Anne Penny was criticised for having poor grammar? (2016-04-25)
... that painter Guan Zilan (pictured), once an art world favourite, became largely forgotten in Communist China and rediscovered photos of her were mistaken for images of the movie star Ruan Lingyu? (2016-04-24)
... that Humira Saqib started educating women of Afghanistan through her magazine Negah-e-Zan on their rights and to "tell women that we have great ideas, and the ability to make those ideas a reality"? (2016-04-23)
... that NSA cryptanalyst Dorothy Blum was using the Fortran programming language three years before its public release in 1957? (2016-04-22)
... that Swedish writer Eva Alexanderson translated works by Umberto Eco, Simone de Beauvoir, Albert Camus, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and Fyodor Dostoyevsky? (2016-04-21)
... that the library at Queen Mary University of London was named after an expert in Welsh history, Caroline Skeel? (2016-04-21)
... that biologist Katherine Sanford was the first person to successfully clone a mammal cell in vitro? (2016-04-20)
... that environmental and children's rights activist Rosemary Edna Sinclair was named Miss Australia 1960? (2016-04-19)
... that Planned Parenthood was conceived 100 years ago in Brooklyn when Margaret Sanger (pictured), her sister Ethel Byrne, and Fania Mindell distributed birth control plus advice, and were soon arrested? (2016-04-18)
... that Minna Salami, a woman journalist of Nigeria, is actively participating on African women's issues through her award-winning blog called MsAfropolitan? (2016-04-18)
... that Klara Johanson was the first person from her Swedish hometown to sit the upper secondary school final examinations? (2016-04-18)
... that the student body at Kennebec Valley Community College grew from 100 to 3,300 during Dr. Barbara W. Woodlee's nearly three decades as president? (2016-04-18)
... that Li Ye, a Taoist nun and courtesan renowned for her beauty and talent in poetry, was executed for treason? (2016-04-17)
... that Bu Xiaolin, her father Buhe, and her grandfather Ulanhu have all served as Chairman of Inner Mongolia? (2016-04-16)
... that Bertha Badt-Strauss was one of the first women in Prussia to receive a doctoral degree? (2016-04-16)
... that according to a former editor of The Observer, Nora Beloff "had one of the most distinguished careers any woman has had in British journalism"? (2016-04-15)
... that Nisha Ayub has said she could be stripped naked and killed, but her transgender identity could not be taken from her? (2016-04-15)
... that Subhashni Raj of Fiji participated in the protests at the 2009 United Nations Climate Talks in Copenhagen? (2016-04-14)
... that Rhian Edwards' debut book of poetry was named the Wales Book of the Year? (2016-04-14)
... that in 1975 Najma Sadeque and seven others perturbed by human rights violations in Pakistan established a NGO called Shirkat Gah? (2016-04-12)
... that Basang, a former slave, was the only woman leader in the Tibet Autonomous Region for more than two decades? (2016-04-12)
... that Marti Stevens used improvisational theatre to teach high school students about substance abuse, sexual abuse, and domestic violence? (2016-04-11)
... that Chen Peiqiu is the best-selling Chinese woman painter? (2016-04-11)
... that Bai Yang (pictured), one of China's most popular film actresses, was imprisoned for five years during the Cultural Revolution? (2016-04-11)
... that Catharine van Tussenbroek settled the question of the existence of ovarian pregnancy clinically and histologically in 1899? (2016-04-10)
... that novelist Louie Myfanwy Thomas had to re-write one of her manuscripts after it was thrown into a fire? (2016-04-09)
... that Lin Zongsu's article reporting her discussion of women's suffrage with Sun Yat-sen brought the right to vote into the public arena in China? (2016-04-09)
... that Shamsi Hekmat was a founder of the Jewish Ladies' Organization of Iran and the Iranian Jewish Women's Organization of Southern California? (2016-04-07)
... that in 1958 Anil de Silva planned an all-woman expedition to China to study the cave paintings in Dunhuang and Maijishan in the Gansu province? (2016-04-07)
... that educator, author, and speaker Esther E. Wood became known as the "town historian" of Blue Hill, Maine, though she disliked the moniker? (2016-04-06)
... that Wu Qing won the Ramon Magsaysay Award for Public Service in 2001, the first Chinese woman to receive the honour? (2016-04-05)
... that Engy Ghozlan is known as the "voice and face" of efforts to eradicate sexual harassment of women in Egypt? (2016-04-04)
... that Ida Sedgwick Proper was a founding member of the feminist group Heterodoxy? (2016-04-03)
... that Annie Furuhjelm of Finland was the first elected woman legislator to speak before the British Parliament? (2016-04-03)
... that the conservatoire piano instructor and playwright Avra Theodoropoulou co-founded a Greek suffrage organization and then served as its president for decades? (2016-04-02)
... that Melitta Marxer and Sleeping Beauty won women the right to vote in Liechtenstein? (2016-04-01)
... that Althea McNish is not American, but she is descended from a Merikin? (2016-04-01)
... that artist and textbook author Elina González Acha de Correa Morales was the driving force for creating the Geographical Society of Argentina? (2016-03-31)
... that Daisy Rossi gave up her painting career after her studio was destroyed by fire? (2016-03-30)
... that Lois Galgay Reckitt, a Maine human rights activist who has advocated against domestic violence and for LGBT rights, is listed in Feminists Who Changed America? (2016-03-28)
... that Cicely Corbett Fisher co-founded a society for women's suffrage when she was fifteen years old? (2016-03-28)
... that the Liverpool Women's Suffrage Society encouraged membership by holding meetings at cafes with poetry, singing, and dance performances? (2016-03-26)
... that the British trade union organiser Jeannie Mole, an early follower of dress reform, liked to wear an outfit reminiscent of Greek robes? (2016-03-26)
... that Meira Paibi ("Women Torchbearers") is a women's social movement in Manipur known as the "guardians of civil society"? (2016-03-25)
... that Marta Vergara believed that the family, rather than the individual, was the fundamental unit of political identity? (2016-03-25)
... that Meghalaya has one of the largest surviving matrilineal societies (Khasi women pictured)? (2016-03-24)
... that Ethel Wilson Gammon, founder and executive director of the Washburn-Norlands Living History Center, also enjoyed role-playing historical characters for her visitors? (2016-03-24)
... that Dona Nelson, known for her two-sided paintings, was called "one of the best artists working today" by New York Times art critic Roberta Smith? (2016-03-24)
... that while still in school, Chinese social and Christian activist Deng Yuzhi decided to be an independent woman, remain unmarried, and live the life of a "new woman"? (2016-03-24)
... that students at the Royal College of Surgeons protested at being asked questions on midwifery by a woman – even though Emily Winifred Dickson was a Fellow of the College? (2016-03-23)
... that when Elida Campodónico attempted to get an identity card to vote, she was told, "In Panama there are no women citizens, only male citizens"? (2016-03-23)
... that Olga Rapay-Markish is known for designing and decorating building interiors and façades in Kiev with massive ceramic works? (2016-03-22)
... that Phebe Hemphill's sculptures, including the one of Gettysburg, appear on several United States Mint state quarters? (2016-03-21)
... that when Changsha was invaded in 1930, Maud Russell refused to leave the city and, after mistakenly being thought to have perished, a memorial service was held for her? (2016-03-21)
... that Františka Plamínková's activism started when she spoke out about an Austro-Hungarian law that forbade teachers from marrying and required them to be celibate? (2016-03-21)
... that in addition to collecting and curating thousands of volumes for the Maine Women Writers Collection, Dorothy M. Healy raised thousands of turkeys on her farm? (2016-03-21)
... that French suffrage activist Marguerite de Witt-Schlumberger proposed that women's issues become part of the treaty process at the Paris Peace Conference of 1919? (2016-03-20)
... that SPARK, a group co-founded by Lyn Mikel Brown, started a 2012 petition against Lego Friends for introducing a line of skinny, buxom female characters? (2016-03-20)
... that as chair of the Inter-American Commission of Women, Doris Stevens (pictured) presented data on laws affecting women, resulting in the passage of the first international agreement on women's rights? (2016-03-20)
... that Erica Deichmann created over 5,000 glazes for Deichmann pottery? (2016-03-19)
... that Filipina feminist Concepción Felix founded A Drop of Milk to train maternity nurses and provide sterile milk to malnourished infants? (2016-03-19)
... that Amanda Sidwall (self-portait pictured) was one of the first women to study at the Royal Swedish Academy of Arts? (2016-03-19)
... that the Danish painter and ceramicist Suzette Holten was part of the avant-garde Kunstnernes Frie Studieskoler movement? (2016-03-18)
... that when Japanese law changed and barred women from political assembly, Shimizu Shikin quit public speaking and became one of the country's first professional women journalists? (2016-03-18)
... that Maud McLure Kelly, the first woman to practice law in Alabama, was also the first Southern woman admitted to the bar of the United States Supreme Court? (2016-03-18)
... that South African suffragist Julia Solly was the sister of British suffragist Nessie Stewart-Brown? (2016-03-18)
... that Eugenia de Reuss Ianculescu included men on the board of the Romanian women's suffrage association that she founded because she believed their skills would help the cause? (2016-03-17)
... that free love activist Helga Goetze advertised her cause with the slogan "Fucking is peace"? (2016-03-16)
... that Wan Shaofen, China's first female provincial party chief, did not complete her term because of the downfall of Hu Yaobang? (2016-03-15)
... that Bilikiss Adebiyi (pictured) planned to collect rubbish in the streets of Nigeria while taking her MBA at MIT? (2016-03-15)
... that Mabel Sine Wadsworth sent teams of outreach workers door to door in rural Maine in the 1950s and 1960s to teach women about birth control? (2016-03-14)
... that pianist Marquesa del Ter founded one of the first feminist organizations in Spain and received the Medal of French Gratitude for her aid to hospitals during World War I? (2016-03-12)
... that when Sarah Platt-Decker died, she was described as "Colorado's foremost woman citizen"? (2016-03-11)
... that Annot and her husband were ordered by the Nazis to close their art school after refusing to dismiss Jewish pupils? (2016-03-11)
... that Delores Ziegler, who teaches voice at the University of Maryland, appeared as Dorabella in Mozart's Così fan tutte for her debut at La Scala, and in the film by Ponnelle and Harnoncourt? (2016-03-10)
... that women's rights advocate Patricia E. Ryan thought she would head the Maine Human Rights Commission for five years, but ended up serving for over three decades? (2016-03-09)
... that Sonia M. Johnny, the first woman ambassador to the United States from Saint Lucia, has also represented CARICOM nations' interests in a trade dispute over bananas? (2016-03-08)
... that Afro-Dominican lesbian feminist scholar Ochy Curiel was a featured musician at the 2004 Teddy Awards in Berlin? (2016-03-08)
... that women's rights activist Meaza Ashenafi noted that Amharic proverbs that place women only in domestic roles are to blame for the degrading of women in Ethiopia? (2016-03-08)
... that a Colombian Civil Order of Merit María Currea Manrique is given annually on International Women's Day in honor of the first female president of the Bogotá City Council? (2016-03-08)
... that Afro-Curaçaoan writer and educator Joceline Clemencia advocated for Papiamento to become an official language of Curaçao? (2016-03-08)
... that He Xiangning (pictured), a feminist and revolutionary who refused to have her feet bound, organized China's first International Women's Day rally 92 years ago today? (2016-03-08)
... that Hana Blažíková is a soprano with the Bach Collegium Japan, conducted by Masaaki Suzuki, for the project to record the complete Bach cantatas? (2016-03-08)
... that Edith Houghton Hooker claimed that women's suffrage would improve water quality and reduce disease? (2016-03-08)
... that Doris Sands Johnson, who wrote a how-to book for voting, lost her initial attempt to run for office but later became the premier woman President of the Bahamian Senate? (2016-03-08)
... that Deolinda Rodríguez de Almeida became known as Angola's "Mother of the Revolution"? (2016-03-08)
... that the Fantasia on Welsh Nursery Tunes by Grace Williams was the first work by a Welsh female composer to be recorded? (2016-03-07)
... that Min Huifen, called the "Queen of Erhu", performed in support of the student protesters of Tiananmen Square? (2016-03-06)
... that the contralto Elisabeth Schärtel, known for performing many Wagner parts at the Bayreuth Festival, sang Verdi's Meg Page alongside Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau as Falstaff? (2016-03-05)
... that Debopriya and Suchismita Chatterjee, the "flute sisters", are Indian instrumentalists trained by Hariprasad Chaurasia? (2016-03-05)
... that when Jessie Jack Hooper ran for the United States Senate in 1922 against Robert M. La Follette Sr., her husband was one of only two men who donated to her campaign? (2016-03-04)
... that the gospel music duo Mary Mary's two sister songstresses' Erica Campbell and Tina Campbell have released solo albums that have charted on The Billboard 200? (2016-03-03)
... that Antonia Fahberg, a lyric soprano of the Bavarian State Opera for 25 years, recorded Bach with Karl Richter, including an aria described as "a beguiling and beautifully restrained performance"? (2016-03-02)
... that the 1835 opera La casa disabitata, composed by Princess Amalie of Saxony, received its first modern performance in 2012 after its previously lost score was discovered in a library in Moscow? (2016-03-01)
... that Hao Jianxiu, an illiterate teenage textile worker, became a model worker and a high-ranking politician after inventing a work method named after her? (2016-03-01)
... that in 2013, Forbes listed Vera Songwe as one of the "20 Young Power Women in Africa"? (2016-02-29)
... that Mary Myers was the first American woman to fly and pilot a dirigible balloon, which she did on Independence Day in 1880? (2016-02-29)
... that Hetty Reckless was born in 1776, escaped from Salem, and boasted of seeing George Washington? (2016-02-29)
... that Ana Irma Rivera Lassén, who would later become president of the Bar Association of Puerto Rico, sued a judge in the 1980s so she could appear in court dressed in pants? (2016-02-29)
... that Gloria Wekker has been called "Holland's Angela Davis" for igniting debate on cultural racism? (2016-02-26)
... that Zaila McCalla, first female Chief Justice of Jamaica, is also the Chancellor of the Diocese of Jamaica and the Cayman Islands? (2016-02-25)
... that Carrie A. Tuggle established the Tuggle Institute, in Birmingham, Alabama, a boarding school to give free education for black children who were destitute orphans or juvenile defendants? (2016-02-25)
... that Norma Cox Astwood, a clinical psychologist, became Vice President of the Senate of Bermuda? (2016-02-24)
... that Detty Kurnia is an Indonesian vocalist who sang Dari Sunda which was among the five best albums listed by Q Magazine? (2016-02-24)
... that Crucian Ruby M. Rouss served in the Women's Army Corps before becoming the "first black woman to head a Legislature in the United States"? (2016-02-23)
... that Paulette Poujol-Oriol's literary works focus principally on the social and economic problems of Haiti, evoking moral options and suggesting solutions? (2016-02-23)
... that Rose Piper's 1946 painting Back Water was inspired by Bessie Smith's "Backwater Blues"? (2016-02-22)
... that Astrid Schirmer appeared in roles by Richard Wagner, both Venus and Elisabeth in his Tannhäuser, and in the Bayreuth Jahrhundertring as both Ortlinde and Sieglinde? (2016-02-22)
... that Maria Carbone appeared in 1931 as Desdemona in a complete recording of Verdi's Otello, one of her only two recordings? (2016-02-21)
... that the black Liberian scholar and educator, Princess Fatima Massaquoi, wrote of her challenging experiences in Nazi Germany and the U.S. South in a recently rediscovered autobiography? (2016-02-21)
... that Anna Korondi appeared at the Bavarian State Opera as Zdenka in Arabella by Richard Strauss and in a leading role in the premiere of Aribert Reimann's Bernarda Albas Haus? (2016-02-21)
... that shortly after becoming the first woman and first African American television news anchor in Colorado, Reynelda Muse began wearing an Afro on the air to assert her identity? (2016-02-20)
... that when Ilse Hollweg recorded the part of Blonde in Mozart's Die Entführung aus dem Serail with Sir Thomas Beecham, she was one of two soloists who also spoke the dialogue? (2016-02-20)
... that 2001 Zambian presidential candidate Gwendoline Konie (pictured) published a poem against male arrogance? (2016-02-20)
... that the 1753 opera Ciro in Armenia was created by Maria Teresa Agnesi Pinottini, one of the earliest female Italian opera composers? (2016-02-20)
... that the 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion was the only all-black, all-female battalion to serve overseas during World War II? (2016-02-20)
... that the "Mother of the Probation" system, Sybil Joyce Hylton, is a National Hero of the Cayman Islands? (2016-02-19)
... that Florida Ruffin Ridley co-founded the Society for the Collection of Negro Folklore? (2016-02-19)
... that Simone Ballard performed the title role in the premiere of Arthur Honegger's Antigone at La Monnaie? (2016-02-18)
... that Sarah Tenant-Flowers has worked as an administrator for the Choir of the Year and as General Manager of "The Sixteen"? (2016-02-18)
... that in an era when women of African descent had little access to education or public role models, the Black Cross Nurses (pictured) trained them in healthcare, allowing them to be seen in leadership roles? (2016-02-18)
... that the soprano Friederike Sailer appeared in the premiere of Werner Egk's Der Revisor at the Schwetzingen Festival, conducted by the composer? (2016-02-17)
... that Madonna's musical endeavors include reciting and recording poems? (2016-02-16)
... that Eleanor Sophia Smith was one of the founders of Chicago's Hull House Music School? (2016-02-16)
... that Carmen Souza sings Cape Verdean and jazz fusion compositions in Creole for its adaptability, and also mimics the sounds of musical instruments? (2016-02-16)
... that Tina Allen's sculpture of Frederick Douglass is featured in the movie Akeelah and the Bee? (2016-02-15)
... that Romona Robinson won a television news anchor job in Cleveland, Ohio, with a demo tape that showed her remaining poised and self-confident while "being wiped out by a hurricane-whipped wave"? (2016-02-15)
... that Xin Fengxia (pictured) refused to divorce her persecuted husband Wu Zuguang, and he took care of her after she was persecuted and became paralyzed? (2016-02-14)
... that Silvina Fabars, who won the National Dance Prize of Cuba in 2014, was once a rebel fighter under Fidel Castro in the Cuban Revolution? (2016-02-14)
... that Ruth Guimarães, the first Afro-Brazilian author to gain a nationwide audience, translated classic literature but also wrote original works about fables, legends, and everyday life? (2016-02-14)
... that Rosita Baltazar, co-founder of the Belize National Dance Company, taught language and dance on St. Vincent in a Garifuna cultural reclamation project? (2016-02-14)
... that no more than twelve people at a time can ascertain what is found and lost at a London hotel? (2016-02-14)
... that the husband-and-wife piano duo of Bartlett and Robertson were said to play like "four hands at a double keyboard controlled by a single mind"? (2016-02-14)
... that the composer and improviser Sylvia Hallett bows both the violin and a spinning bicycle wheel? (2016-02-13)
... that Subhra Guha, a vocal musician in the Indian Hindustani classical tradition, trained in Agra gharana, and has a singing repertoire in khayals, thumri and dadra? (2016-02-13)
... that Kaushiki Chakraborty (pictured) sings khayals and thumris, which in Hindustani music are considered semi-classical or light classical? (2016-02-12)
... that Velma Scantlebury, the first African American woman transplant surgeon in the United States, estimates she has completed over 2,000 organ transplants? (2016-02-11)
... that the public apology of 16-year-old K-pop star Chou Tzu-yu for waving a Taiwanese flag is believed to have helped Tsai Ing-wen win the Taiwanese presidential election? (2016-02-11)
... that in 1939, a trans-Atlantic radio broadcast featured coloratura soprano Ewa Bandrowska-Turska (pictured) singing four songs by Karol Szymanowski from the Royal Castle in Kraków for the US audience? (2016-02-10)
... that Kandia Crazy Horse taught the course "Roll Over Beethoven: Black Rock and Cultural Revolt" at Princeton University? (2016-02-09)
... that Ilse Gramatzki appeared as a Rhinemaiden in the Jahrhundertring at the Bayreuth Festival, and in Zimmermann's Die Soldaten in Frankfurt and Brussels? (2016-02-09)
... that nurse and midwife Rosita Beatrice Missick-Butterfield was the first woman Speaker of the Legislative Council of the Turks and Caicos Islands? (2016-02-08)
... that Billie Maxwell was the first woman recorded in country music, and the first recorded musician from Arizona? (2016-02-08)
... that before she became a Senator of Mauritania, Malouma (pictured) was censored for her songs, which promoted women's rights and challenged apartheid? (2016-02-07)
... that Yvonne Ciannella, who performed the title roles of Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor and Puccini's Suor Angelica, recorded Telemann's cantata Ino with "dramatic colouring"? (2016-02-06)
... that the modern format for the Katcheri, conceived by Ariyakudi Ramanuja Iyengar in the 1930s, incorporated traditional Carnatic music rendered by the Trinity of Carnatic music? (2016-02-06)
... that in 1994 Gloria Tanner became the first African American woman state senator in Colorado history? (2016-02-05)
... that Yolanda Marculescu, prima donna of the Romanian National Opera of Bucharest, defected to the U.S. in 1968 and founded the International Festival of the Art Song in Milwaukee, Wisconsin? (2016-02-04)
... that Romanian soprano and music educator Georgeta Stoleriu established a scholarship to recognize outstanding students from the National University of Music Bucharest, but never her own students? (2016-02-02)
... that Minuetta Kessler, a classical composer and concert pianist who wrote and performed her first piece at age five, created a game to teach musical composition to young children? (2016-02-01)
... that Marie Kraja and Lola Gjoka performed more than 300 songs together that recorded Albanian culture? (2016-02-01)
... that Gertrude Pitzinger, who toured Europe and the United States singing Lieder, recorded the alto part of Mozart's Requiem, conducted by Ferenc Fricsay? (2016-01-29)
... that pianist Mina Miller founded Music of Remembrance to perform music by and about victims of the Holocaust? (2016-01-27)
... that Bianca de' Medici played an organ concert for a current pope and a future pope in 1460? (2016-01-27)
... that VPRO founder Nicolette Bruining (pictured) was honored as Righteous Among the Nations for assisting Jews during World War II? (2016-01-22)
... that literary scholar Hana Wirth-Nesher grew up with her father reading to her in Yiddish, her mother and grandmother speaking to her in German, and her friends conversing with her in English? (2016-01-19)
... that at least seven denominations trace their history to a Pentecostal church founded by Mary Magdalena Lewis Tate, the first American woman to serve as bishop in a nationally-recognized denomination? (2016-01-17)
... that Brigitte Boehme (pictured), the president of the Protestant Church of Bremen who moved the German Evangelical Church Assembly 2009 to the town, was baptized in her forties? (2016-01-16)
... that Liza Levy, a board member and past president of the Jewish Federation of Greater Washington, originally joined the group as a way to make friends and retain her Jewish identity? (2016-01-13)
... that percussionist Annette A. Aguilar was sent to South Africa by the U.S. State Department as a Latin Jazz Ambassador? (2016-01-12)
... that Miriam Goldberg succeeded her husband as publisher of the Intermountain Jewish News, which he had bought for one dollar? (2016-01-11)
... that choreographer and TV artist Davina Delor (pictured) became a Buddhist nun after meeting the Dalai Lama, and converted her country home in Haims to a monastery? (2016-01-11)
... that the second time that Christina Carpenter was placed in a cell, it had no door? (2016-01-10)
... that Khandro Rinpoche (pictured) of the Mindrolling lineage is the present reincarnation of Urgyen Tsomo? (2016-01-07)
... that while Caroline Stephen's book was considered a "Quaker classic" even 100 years after publication, her brother had dismissed it as "another little work of hers"? (2016-01-07)
... that Victoria Bricker has studied the languages, astronomy, and ethnobotany of the Maya? (2016-01-06)
... that Marianne Katoppo, who wrote the book Compassionate and Free. An Asian Woman's Theology, found the term feminist theology "too loaded"? (2016-01-05)
... that Mãe Menininha do Gantois was instrumental in gaining legal recognition of Candomblé and its rituals? (2016-01-04)
... that former slave Lucy Goode Brooks (pictured) helped found the Friends' Asylum for Colored Orphans, which still serves families in Richmond, Virginia, as the Friends' Association for Children? (2016-01-04)
... that Aviel Barclay, the first woman to be traditionally trained and certified as a Jewish scribe, completed her first Torah scroll in 2010? (2016-01-04)
... that a ban on women Shinto priests ended after World War II? (2016-01-03)
... that Rebbetzin Tziporah Heller, a senior faculty member at Neve Yerushalayim College for Women, has thousands of students around the globe? (2016-01-03)
... that after Rachel Henderlite's 1965 ordination as a minister, a retired pastor sent her a postcard every year quoting the biblical injunction, "Let the women keep silent in the churches"? (2016-01-03)
... that Maria Corsini, Italian writer and Roman Catholic lay person, was beatified by Pope John Paul II on 31 October 2001 along with her husband, Luigi Beltrame Quattrocchi? (2016-01-03)
... that the legend of Lopamudra in Mahabharata is said to be "the glorification of domestic life and family and demonstrates the incompleteness of a life based solely on asceticism"? (2016-01-02)
... that Elisabeth Abegg, a teacher who provided shelter to Jews during the Holocaust, also tutored Jewish children at her home? (2016-01-02)
... that Meherzia Labidi Maïza (pictured) was proud of including women's rights in the post-Arab Spring Tunisian constitution? (2016-01-01)
... that the abolitionist Eliza Ann Gardner made her living as a dressmaker? (2016-01-01)
... that at the pulpit of the synod of the Protestant Church in the Netherlands, Arenda Haasnoot said, "This is my calling. Here I am in my place"? (2016-01-01)
... that 138 years after establishment of the Anglican Diocese of Nassau, Angela Palacious became its first woman deacon in 1999? (2016-01-01)
... that Agnes Okoh, an illiterate Nigerian, founded Christ Holy Church International? (2015-12-31)
... that 13 years after Lydia Emelie Gruchy graduated her theological studies with honors, she was finally ordained in 1936 as the first female minister of the United Church of Canada? (2015-12-30)
... that Temerl Bergson, a wealthy businesswoman and patroness of Hasidic Jews in 19th-century Poland, "distributed money like ashes"? (2015-12-29)
... that Sarla Bedi established the Hindu reform movement Arya Samaj in Toronto, Canada, and promoted social causes? (2015-12-28)
... that the nun Jeanne des Anges was the main protagonist of the witch trials which led to the death by burning of a French priest? (2015-12-28)
... that cell biologist Margaret Reed Lewis may have been the first person to successfully grow mammalian tissue in vitro? (2015-12-27)
... that Ann Allebach (pictured), the first woman ordained a Mennonite minister in North America, was ordained 62 years before the next woman? (2015-12-27)
... that Mary Frances Clarke helped move the religious order Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, which she had founded, from Philadelphia to Dubuque, Iowa, with their piano? (2015-12-26)
... that in 1895 Sister Krucifiksa founded a school dedicated to the Sacred Heart, which accepted children regardless of their religious affiliation or ethnic background? (2015-12-26)
... that physiotherapist Avrilia Papayannis lived as a hermit in the Himalayas before becoming a Greek Orthodox nun later known as Mother Gavrielia? (2015-12-24)
... that Australian priest Elizabeth Alfred led Holy Communion on her 100th birthday? (2015-12-24)
... that the British orthopaedic surgeon Samantha Tross made long jumps during her education? (2015-12-23)
... that Wu Chengzhen was the first woman to be ordained as a fangzhang in the 1,800-year history of the Tao faith? (2015-12-22)
... that of the more than 3,000 midwives working in the state of Florida in the early 1920s, Victoria Joyce Ely was the only one who was trained and licensed? (2015-12-21)
... that gastroenterologist Sara Murray Jordan co-wrote a cookbook titled Good Food for Bad Stomachs? (2015-12-21)
... that physiotherapist Janet Carr specialised in rehabilitation after stroke? (2015-12-21)
... that Bambi delivered more than 35,000 babies? (2021-07-03)
... that Bambi delivered over 35,000 babies? (2015-12-20)
... that while working on her graduate degree in chemistry, Emīlija Gudriniece won the Latvian Women's Motorcycle Championship in 1949, and then won it again in 1953? (2015-12-20)
... that Ruth Schmidt, an employee of the United States Geological Survey, was questioned in two McCarthyist hearings because of her association with a bookstore? (2015-12-19)
... that molecular cell biologist Mónica Bettencourt-Dias also studied scientific communication, the way scientists communicate with the public? (2015-12-19)
... that conservationist Rose Gaffney, known as "The Belle of Bodega Bay," helped halt the construction of a nuclear power plant in Bodega Bay, California? (2015-12-18)
... that Elisa Oricchio identified that the ephrin receptor EphA7 plays a role in tumor development of follicular lymphoma? (2015-12-18)
... that Doris Calloway studied farts, space food, and broccoli? (2015-12-18)
... that collaboration between botanists Elinor Francis Vallentin and A.D. Cotton resulted in the first comprehensive study of cryptogams from the Falkland Islands? (2015-12-17)
... that Anne Beloff-Chain founded the Department of Biochemistry at the University of Buckingham? (2015-12-16)
... that astrophysicist Naomi McClure-Griffiths discovered a new spiral arm in the Milky Way? (2015-12-14)
... that May Owen discovered that the talcum powder used on surgical gloves caused infection and peritoneal scarring? (2015-12-14)
... that Lidija Liepiņa worked with a team of other scientists in a mobile laboratory in a train boxcar, testing filters to create Russia's first functional gas mask? (2015-12-13)
... that Catherine Feuillet led a team to successfully map the largest wheat chromosome, 3B? (2015-12-13)
... that Japanese physicist Toshiko Yuasa studied in Paris under Frédéric Joliot-Curie and developed her own beta-ray spectrometer in Berlin? (2015-12-11)
... that the British entrepreneur Nancy Cruickshank's second start-up, Handbag.com, became the number-one fashion and beauty website in the UK, with 1.5 million visits monthly? (2015-12-11)
... that Vera Faddeeva's 1950 book Computational methods of linear algebra was one of the first publications in that field of mathematics? (2015-12-10)
... that Una Ryan and Una Ryan both emigrated from their countries, study infectious disease, and were honored with the Order of the British Empire and Prime Minister's Prizes for Science, respectively? (2015-12-10)
... that Marguerite Lehr conducted a televised lecture course on mathematics in the 1950s? (2015-12-10)
... that Louise Hay was the only woman to direct a math department at a major research university in her era? (2015-12-10)
... that Kathryn Parsons (pictured) co-founded a startup that teaches people how to "code in a day"? (2015-12-10)
... that biochemist Kathryn Ferguson Fink developed radiolabeling techniques that were used to study the success of chemotherapy? (2015-12-10)
... that Katherine Belov discovered that the contagious cancer decimating the Tasmanian devil spreads due to lack of genetic diversity? (2015-12-10)
... that Singaporean fungi expert Gloria Lim was once summoned by her country's Ministry of Defence when their storage area developed mold? (2015-12-10)
... that Diana Marcela Bolaños Rodriguez studies marine flatworms to learn about their regenerative abilities? (2015-12-10)
... that Charlotte Sahl-Madsen introduced multiple intelligences into the Universe? (2015-12-10)
... that after Cecilia Bouzat was given a L'Oréal-UNESCO Award for Women in Science she was received by the President of Argentina? (2015-12-10)
... that Catherine A. Lozupone created the UniFrac algorithm, which has allowed researchers to plot the relationships between microbial communities in the human gut? (2015-12-10)
... that Andrea Ablasser discovered a molecule that warns nearby cells when it encounters a pathogen? (2015-12-10)
... that American mechanical engineer Alice Agogino won the NSF's Presidential Young Investigator Award in 1985? (2015-12-10)
... that Vera Fedorovna Gaze, who discovered around 150 emission nebulae, had a minor planet and a crater on Venus named for her? (2015-12-08)
... that Stephanie Burns, an organosilicon chemist, served as President and CEO of Dow Corning? (2015-12-08)
... that Sarah Kalley and her husband started the first Protestant church in Brazil? (2015-12-07)
... that Yueh-Lin Loo invented nanotransfer printing, a technique that allows electrical circuits to be printed onto plastic surfaces? (2015-12-06)
... that German astrophysicist Hanna von Hoerner designed the cosmic dust analyser onboard Rosetta? (2015-12-05)
... that Dorothea Leighton is one of the founders of the field of medical anthropology? (2015-12-05)
... that Patricia Numann founded the Association of Women Surgeons, chaired the American Board of Surgery, and was president of the American College of Surgeons? (2015-12-04)
... that the Armitt Library is named for the polyglot Mary Louisa Armitt? (2015-12-03)
... that Idelisa Bonnelly pushed for the first humpback whale sanctuary to be established and was inducted into the Global 500 Roll of Honour of UNEP for her defense of the environment? (2015-12-03)
... that Tebello Nyokong is helping to pioneer a safer method of cancer detection and therapy that does not have the harmful side effects of chemotherapy? (2015-12-02)
... that Omowunmi Sadik has developed highly sensitive microelectrode biosensors that can detect explosives? (2015-12-02)
... that Frances Gertrude McGill, a Canadian forensic pathologist, was referred to as the "Sherlock Holmes of Saskatchewan"? (2015-12-02)
... that after Olga Fedchenko's husband died on Mont Blanc in 1873, she was asked to continue their work by Moscow's Society of Natural Scientists? (2015-12-01)
... that bacteriologist Maria von Linden received a patent for her discovery that copper salts could be used as a disinfectant? (2015-12-01)
... that Ida Shepard Oldroyd curated the world's second largest collection of mollusk shells? (2015-12-01)
... that Tsuruko Haraguchi, the first Japanese woman to receive a PhD, helped establish an experimental psychology laboratory at Japan Women's University? (2015-11-30)
... that towards the end of her life, biologist Mary Cynthia Dickerson had hallucinations of the Arctic explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson? (2015-11-30)
... that Soviet physician Vera Lebedeva instituted a successful program to reduce infant mortality in her country? (2015-11-29)
... that Guadalupe Marín and Diego Rivera's daughter Ruth Rivera Marín was the first woman to study architecture at the National Polytechnic Institute? (2015-11-28)
... that Marie Lebour studied the life cycles of marine animals until she was 88? (2015-11-28)
... that biologist Kono Yasui was only allowed to study outside of Japan if she listed "home economics research" alongside "scientific research" on her application and agreed not to marry? (2015-11-26)
... that Urmila Eulie Chowdhury was chief architect of the state of Punjab from 1976 to 1981? (2015-11-26)
... that Ragnhild Sundby's doctoral thesis concluded that fluctuations of miner moth populations were mainly caused by parasitic wasps? (2015-11-25)
... that architect Winka Dubbeldam prefers dressing in black, and lives in a house with black walls? (2015-11-24)
... that architect Susan Maxman's firm received 65 awards including 14 AIA design awards and 14 awards for their designs' environmental importance? (2015-11-24)
... that the architects Elizabeth and H. T. Cadbury-Brown worked together on designs for the Royal Academy of Arts and the Royal College of Art? (2015-11-24)
... that Kristin Feireiss became a Pritzker Architecture Prize juror in 2015? (2015-11-23)
... that German biochemist Ulrike Beisiegel is the first woman to serve as president of the University of Göttingen? (2015-11-22)
... that botanist and ecologist Edith Clements illustrated most of her own books? (2015-11-22)
... that Anupama Kundoo, an Indian architect working at Auroville from 1990, created innovations in her project designs by adopting "sustainable building technologies and infrastructural systems"? (2015-11-22)
... that Michiyo Tsujimura's discovery of vitamin C in green tea contributed to an increase in tea exports to America? (2015-11-21)
... that theoretical physicist Mariangela Lisanti was named on MIT Technology Review's TR35 list of innovators when she was 18 years old? (2015-11-21)
... that neuroscientist Kay Tye has used light to identify connections in the brain that are linked to anxiety? (2015-11-21)
... that Zoka Zola's design of a zero-energy house blends every available space with solar, wind, and geothermal methods in a "modern-organic-fusion style"? (2015-11-20)
... that Grace Medes discovered the human metabolic disorder of tyrosinemia in 1932? (2015-11-20)
... that Canadian oncologist Kathleen I. Pritchard was one of the most cited researchers in the world in 2014 and 2015? (2015-11-19)
... that Grace Oladunni Taylor was the first African to win the L'Oréal-UNESCO Award for Women in Science and the second woman inducted into the Nigerian Academy of Science? (2015-11-18)
... that Pennsylvania Supreme Court justice-elect Christine Donohue is the daughter of a United Mine Worker and a union seamstress? (2015-11-17)
... that the memorial service for Beverly L. Greene, "believed to be the first African American woman licensed as an architect in the United States", took place in a funeral home she had designed? (2015-11-17)
... that Eva-Maria Neher, a German scientist in biochemistry and microbiology and founder of Göttingen Xlab, is married to Erwin Neher, a Nobel laureate? (2015-11-16)
... that Myeong-Hee Yu won a L'Oréal-UNESCO Award for Women in Science in 1998 for her work on the protein alpha-1 antitrypsin? (2015-11-15)
... that the seaweed expert Mary Philadelphia Merrifield learnt Swedish so she could correspond with the naturalist Jacob Georg Agardh? (2015-11-15)
... that biologist Marvalee Wake, an expert on caecilians, is married to an expert on salamanders? (2015-11-14)
... that the glaciologist Moira Dunbar is the only female recipient of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society's Massey Medal? (2015-11-13)
... that medal-winning ice dancer Kakani Katija Young is a bioengineer studying the contribution of sea creatures to tidal movement? (2015-11-13)
... that the Japanese chemist Chika Kuroda helped to create an antihypertensive drug from an onion skin? (2015-11-13)
... that Agathe L. van Beverwijk left her research role at the Amsterdam Cancer Institute because she refused to experiment on animals? (2015-11-12)
... that Kathrin Barboza Marquez rediscovered a bat in Bolivia which had been thought to be extinct in the country? (2015-11-11)
... that the architect Chitra Vishwanath built her own large mud house in Bengaluru to promote her theme of mud architecture as an environmentally sound proposition? (2015-11-11)
... that on 25 February 1990, Violeta Chamorro of Nicaragua became the first elected woman president in the Americas? (2015-11-10)
... that architect Judith Ledeboer studied at Cambridge but designed buildings for Oxford? (2015-11-10)
... that Alice Alldredge, an expert on marine snow, has been in the top 0.1% of the Web of Science's highly cited researchers list since 2003? (2015-11-10)
... that Sydney architect Eleanor Cullis-Hill practiced from her home since she felt that women were unwelcome in large architectural offices? (2015-11-09)
... that although Monica Pidgeon's father persuaded her not to study architecture, she went on to edit Architectural Design for almost three decades? (2015-11-08)
... that Teresa Borsuk's interest in architecture was sparked partly by Lego? (2015-11-05)
... that Lyubow Demeetriyevna Oosava and her fellow students of the Moscow Architectural Institute were required to study architecture and manufacture munitions during World War II? (2015-11-05)
... that the BBC was accused of ignoring women architects when Patty Hopkins was removed from a photograph of The Brits Who Built the Modern World? (2015-11-04)
... that the London-based architect Rosemary Stjernstedt was the first woman to reach senior grade I status in a British council county division? (2015-11-02)
... that architect Eva Vecsei has designed projects in Hungary, Canada and Pakistan? (2015-11-02)
... that Dutch architect Tonny Zwollo was featured in Life magazine for building 35 schools in Oaxaca, Mexico, and convincing the community members to help build them for free? (2015-10-29)
... that Kate Macintosh designed a social housing complex in London that was described as "one of the most remarkable housing developments in the country"? (2015-10-29)
... that the cathedral architect Corinne Bennett's interest in stone came from her father, a geology professor? (2015-10-29)
... that Richard Nixon lived in two houses designed by Eleanore Pettersen? (2015-10-28)
... that British/Kenyan architect Dorothy Hughes's most renowned designs include the Cathedral of the Holy Family and a nightclub in the red-light district of Nairobi? (2015-10-28)
... that Deborah Saunt was cited as one of "London's top architects" in 2012? (2015-10-27)
... that conservation architect Beatriz del Cueto restored Puerto Rico's oldest lighthouse, Cape San Juan Light (pictured)? (2015-10-27)
... that María Luisa Dehesa Gómez Farías was the first Latin American woman to graduate with a degree in architecture? (2015-10-26)
... that the "Dragon Lady" complained that American Architects ran a "gentleman's club"? (2015-10-26)
... that Debra Crew surprised business observers when she became president of the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company only two months after being named president of PepsiCo North America Nutrition? (2015-10-26)
... that Gertrude Leverkus was the only woman among 500 men to sit her final exams in architecture at University College London in 1919? (2015-10-25)
... that Georgie Wolton designed the first house in the UK to use CorTen steel as the primary structure? (2015-10-25)
... that Chilean-born Rocio Romero redesigned the kit home to feature modern, minimalist aesthetics, using natural airflow and lighting? (2015-10-24)
... that Carole J. Olshavsky was the first woman to be appointed state architect for Ohio? (2015-10-24)
... that the first female architect from the West Indies was the Jamaican Verma Panton? (2015-10-22)
... that architect Sigrid Lorenzen Rupp said she campaigned for women's issues "simply because I did not want there to be any"? (2015-10-21)
... that Split, the debut novel by Swati Avasthi, an Indian American writer and teacher, was published in 2010 and received a plethora of awards? (2015-10-18)
... that the vision of architects Pravina Mehta, Charles Correa, and Shirish Patel for the New Bombay project has been compared to that of a popular Bollywood film? (2015-10-13)
... that chemist and science diplomat Nancy B. Jackson was the first implementer of the U.S. State Department's Chemical Security Engagement Program? (2015-10-13)
... that Harriet Moody used salvaged architectural features in her California Storybook Cottages due to war rationing on building goods? (2015-10-13)
... that E. E. Holman's gender was deliberately disguised to secure architectural contracts, like those for the National Park Seminary's Aloha Dormitory (pictured)? (2015-10-13)
... that in the war against Tiglath-Pileser III in 732 BCE, Samsi was defeated and was said to have fled the battlefield like a "wild she-ass of the desert"? (2015-10-12)
... that 30 years after joining the Royal Bank of Canada as a teller, Zabeen Hirji became chief human resources officer with responsibility for nearly 79,000 employees in 50 countries? (2015-10-10)
... that the artist Siri Derkert carved words of peace on the walls of a metro station doubling as a nuclear war shelter? (2015-10-06)
... that the National Diversity Council named Shefali Razdan Duggal to the list of the Most Powerful and Influential Women of 2012 in California? (2015-10-04)
... that Catherine T. Hunt, the 2007 president of the American Chemical Society, won the society's first election to use Internet voting? (2015-10-03)
... that Algerian filmmaker Nadia Labidi is also a politician who served as Minister of Culture from May 2014 to May 2015? (2015-10-01)
... that Canadian tech entrepreneur Suhayya Abu-Hakima, who has founded two startups and holds 30 international patents, received a Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal in 2012? (2015-09-28)
... that Lourdes Aflague Leon Guerrero, who served as a senator in the Legislature of Guam, is the Chairwoman of the Board, Chief Executive Officer and President of the Bank of Guam? (2015-09-28)
... that Katie Page, CEO of Harvey Norman and an active supporter of women in sports, announced a $500,000 purse for horses owned or leased by women at the 2013 Magic Millions racing event? (2015-09-28)
... that astrobiologist and freediver Nathalie Cabrol selected the landing site for the Mars rover Spirit? (2015-09-27)
... that Stephanie Langhoff, who has produced numerous films made by brothers Jay and Mark Duplass, has been referred to as "the honorary Duplass sister"? (2015-09-26)
... that Iranian-born Azita Shariati, an executive with the French catering and support services multinational Sodexo, has been named the most powerful businesswoman in Sweden? (2015-09-25)
... that Mary Ann Turcke, the recently-appointed President of Bell Media, Canada, began her career designing and building bridges and highways for the Ministry of Transportation of Ontario? (2015-09-24)
... that Bridget van Kralingen, senior vice president of IBM Global Business Services, oversees 100,000 consultants and service providers in 170 countries? (2015-09-23)
... that Sophia Lin was selected by TheWrap in 2012 as one of "10 Producers Who Will Change Hollywood"? (2015-09-22)
... that Louise O'Sullivan, founder and CEO of Anam Technologies, Dublin, is a vocal advocate for gender parity in the IT industry? (2015-09-22)
... that in 2014 the Sunday Independent named Irish venture capitalist Elaine Coughlan one of "The 50 Most Influential and Powerful Women in Business"? (2015-09-22)
... that Ann-Marie Campbell, southern division president for The Home Depot with responsibility for 690 stores and 100,000 employees, started with the company as a part-time cashier? (2015-09-21)
... that Nina Yang Bongiovi is the production partner of actor Forest Whitaker? (2015-09-20)
... that within two years of the hiring of Sandi Peterson as Group Worldwide Chairman of Johnson & Johnson, the company doubled its number of women in executive leadership positions? (2015-09-19)
... that Sakaye Shigekawa estimated that she delivered between 20,000 and 30,000 babies in her career as an obstetrician? (2015-09-16)
... that the nomination of Azita Raji, an Iranian American, for the post of Ambassador to Sweden in October 2014, was widely reported in the Indian press because of her Indian-sounding name? (2015-09-15)
... that Carden Wallace was in the team that discovered mass spawning on the Great Barrier Reef? (2015-09-09)
... that Ángela Acuña Braun, first female Costa Rican attorney, served on both the Inter-American Commission of Women and the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights? (2015-08-14)
... that German politician Adele Schreiber-Krieger advocated extensively for the rights of mothers and children, but never had children herself? (2015-06-06)
... that German poet and pacifist Clementine Krämer attempted to flee Nazi Germany to the U.S., Denmark, China, and Cuba before being sent to the concentration camp where she died? (2015-05-28)
... that Elena Arizmendi Mejia organized the Neutral White Cross when the Red Cross refused to assist the wounded insurgents during the Mexican Revolution? (2015-04-05)
... that feminist writer Anne O'Hagan is thought to have written anonymously about the difficulties of living with an old-fashioned mother? (2015-03-26)
... that Constance Ellis was the first woman to receive a medical degree from the University of Melbourne? (2015-03-11)
... that Swiss feminist Meta von Salis was horrified when someone suggested she marry her friend Friedrich Nietzsche? (2014-11-01)
... that Emily Sartain was the first woman in Europe and the United States to practice the art of mezzotint engraving? (2014-10-25)
... that the National Council of Women of Australia made Margaret Windeyer an honorary life president in 1918, though she had never been a member of the council's executive board? (2014-10-11)
... that the Swiss politician Josi Meier once declared, "Women belong in the house ... in the House of Representatives!"? (2014-09-25)
... that the trans woman activist Miss Major (pictured) was meeting with her girlfriend at the Stonewall Inn during the police raid that precipitated the Stonewall riot? (2014-09-23)
... that the artist Rhoda Holmes Nicholls (self-portrait pictured) and her husband Burr divorced after her work was accepted at the Paris Salon but his painting was rejected? (2014-09-16)
... that Margaret Fritsch was the first woman to be licensed as an architect in Oregon? (2014-09-12)
... that Julia Archibald Holmes, a suffragist and friend of Susan B. Anthony, was also the first woman to climb Pikes Peak? (2014-05-26)
... that during World War I, Violet Manners, Duchess of Rutland, converted her London house into a hospital? (2014-05-17)
... that E. Gail de Planque was the first woman and first health physicist to become a Commissioner at the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission? (2014-04-26)
... that Fay Fuller (pictured) was the first woman to climb Mount Rainier? (2014-04-21)
... that Yuhui Choe replaced the injured Natalia Osipova at short notice in the lead role in Sleeping Beauty for The Royal Ballet and "appeared radiantly unfazed by the challenge"? (2014-04-11)
... that Bernice Coppieters of the Ballets de Monte Carlo is Jean-Christophe Maillot's muse? (2014-04-05)
... that Hamburg Ballet's principal Hélène Bouchet wore a gypsy dress when she danced in Mougins, with her sister on violin? (2014-03-26)
... that Eleonora de Cisneros (pictured), an American opera singer, promoted the sale of Liberty bonds more than any other person during World War I? (2014-03-09)
... that Josephine Silone Yates (pictured) was the first black woman to head a college science department in the United States? (2014-02-27)
... that Juliana R. Force brought about the first public showing of American folk art in the United States? (2014-01-23)
... that Miriam Roth grew up in a Hungarian-speaking town, studied at a German-speaking university, and wrote best-sellers in Hebrew? (2013-11-14)
... that Singaporean politician Penny Low, a Member of Parliament for the Pasir Ris-Punggol Group Representation Constituency, used to work at the Singapore Broadcasting Corporation? (2013-11-10)
... that Nelle Richmond Eberhart wrote the first opera commissioned for American radio? (2013-07-30)
... that Sarla Behn's and Mirabehn's work in Kumaon and Garhwal, respectively, played a key role in bringing focus on issues of environmental degradation and conservation in independent India? (2013-06-06)
... that Maria van Oosterwijck included a specific species of butterfly in most of her major paintings? (2013-05-04)
... that Elvira Rawson de Dellepiane is remembered as the "mother of women's rights in Argentina"? (2013-05-02)
... that Katharine Hepburn recruited Hilda Crosby Standish to be medical director of the first birth control clinic in Connecticut? (2013-03-25)
... that Sara Bard Field (pictured) traveled by automobile from San Francisco to Washington, D.C. in 1915 to deliver a petition with 500,000 signatures for women's suffrage to Woodrow Wilson? (2013-03-14)
... that a large sculpture (smaller version pictured) by Caroline Shawk Brooks was listed by customs officials not as a work of art, but as "110 lbs. of butter"? (2013-03-09)
... that the Countess of Rutland, mother of 11, had to inform the English queen Anne of Cleves that receiving a goodnight kiss was not enough to conceive a child? (2013-02-13)
... that in the early 1900s, Gabrielle Matthaei determined the role of temperature in photosynthesis, though the reaction does not bear her name today? (2013-01-16)
... that philosopher Bertrand Russell feared the ridicule of his grandmother, Lady Stanley of Alderley (pictured), best known for defending the "right of women to the highest culture hitherto reserved to men"? (2012-12-22)
... that Queen Victoria said that Viscountess Amberley "ought to get a good whipping" for speaking publicly in favour of women's suffrage? (2012-12-09)
... that congresswoman-elect Michelle Lujan Grisham served as director of New Mexico's Agency on Aging under three different governors? (2012-11-11)
... that Val Demings became the first female Chief of Police for the Orlando Police Department? (2012-11-08)
... that Hertha Ayrton's 1902 candidature to be the first woman elected Fellow of the Royal Society was turned down on the basis that as a married woman she had no standing in law? (2012-11-08)
... that biochemist Rosalind Pitt-Rivers co-discovered the thyroid hormone triiodothyronine in 1952? (2012-11-04)
... that on Women's Equality Day, the Iowa Women's Hall of Fame will add four names to a list that already includes Mamie Eisenhower (pictured) and Hualing Nieh Engle? (2012-07-05)
... that school teacher and conspirator Jadwiga Apostoł (pictured) survived three German camps, including Auschwitz, and was jailed in Stalinist Poland on trumped-up charges soon after her return? (2012-05-09)
... that the New York apartment of advertising consultant Cindy Gallop was the set for the music video for "Nasty Girl" by The Notorious B.I.G.? (2012-05-06)
... that American artist Ellen Gallagher created artworks which included images carved into the surface of thick sheets of paper? (2012-03-08)
... that Bernice Lake, the chief architect of Anguilla's constitution, was the first Eastern Caribbean woman to be appointed Queen's Counsel? (2011-10-10)
... that, in 1972, lesbian feminist Dolores Alexander opened "Mother Courage", the first feminist restaurant in the United States? (2011-09-01)
... that Dutch child psychologist Bloeme Evers-Emden was deported to Auschwitz on the same train as Anne Frank? (2011-03-20)
... that First Nations contemporary artist Dana Claxton is a descendant of Sitting Bull's followers? (2011-03-08)
... that Ellen Hayes was not only a rare 19th-century female mathematics professor but was also the first woman to run for statewide office in Massachusetts? (2011-02-15)
... that Elizabeth W. Champney, author of the "Three Vassar Girls" series, married her former drawing instructor when he happened to pass through her hometown? (2011-02-11)
... that for the 80th birthday of King Tāufaʻāhau Tupou IV of Tonga, Adrienne Kaeppler, curator of Oceanic Ethnology at the Smithsonian Institution, set up a special exhibition at the Tongan National Museum? (2011-01-02)
... that in 1925, Hortense Sparks Ward led a special all-female Texas Supreme Court after no male judges or lawyers could be found to hear a case? (2010-12-21)
... that mezzo-soprano opera singer Martha Lipton performed 401 times at the Metropolitan Opera? (2010-11-07)
... that President Obama called the Paycheck Fairness Act "a common-sense bill" that would help end persistent male–female income disparity in which American women earn 77 cents for every dollar men earn? (2010-10-02)
... that American feminist author and journalist Inez Haynes Irwin estimated that between 500,000 and 750,000 women were killed in World War I? (2010-09-10)
... that Aline Hofheimer painted a 126-foot fresco representing aviation history in Roosevelt Field, Long Island? (2010-06-05)
... that English suffragette Olive Wharry was imprisoned in 1913 for an arson attack at Kew Gardens? (2010-05-30)
... that lesbian union organizer Mary Kay Henry was elected the first woman president of the Service Employees International Union on May 8, 2010? (2010-05-29)
... that Louisette Bertholle was one of three authors of the seminal 1961 cookbook Mastering the Art of French Cooking, with Julia Child and Simone Beck? (2010-05-25)
... that social reformer Isabella Ford was the first woman to speak at a conference of the Labour Representation Committee (which went on to form the British Labour Party)? (2010-04-29)
... that Grace Voss Frederick (November 3, 1905 – January 16, 2009) was the creator of the Grace Museum of America and the Grace Museum for the Preservation of Americana? (2010-03-20)
... that according to legend, New York Assemblywoman Ida Sammis' first act in the legislature was to polish the brass spittoon assigned to her, and to place it on her desk as a flower vase? (2010-03-18)
... that Mary Elliott Flanery was the first female state legislator south of the Mason-Dixon Line when she took her seat in the Kentucky General Assembly in January 1922? (2010-03-16)
... that Evelina Haverfield, a British suffragette who was arrested after hitting a police officer in the mouth, threatened to "bring a revolver" next time? (2010-03-08)
... that Spanish politician and feminist Clara Campoamor was one of three women elected to Spain's 1931 Constituent Assembly even though women were not allowed to vote in the election? (2010-03-08)
... that early female Republican party politician and suffragist Rhoda Fox Graves was the first woman to serve in the New York State Senate? (2010-03-05)
... that actress Naya Rivera from the musical comedy series Glee had a talent agent before she was even one year old? (2010-01-18)
... that Helen Bright Clark was one of the first British women to sign the Open Christmas Letter which sought to extend the hand of peace "To the Women of Germany and Austria" during World War I? (2009-12-25)
... that U.S. birth control advocate Dr. Bessie Moses gave up her practice as an obstetrician because she became emotionally attached to the outcome of every birth she attended? (2009-12-02)
... that when asked if she wanted to focus on drawing, painting, or sculpting in art school, Ruth Duckworth said she wanted to study all of them just as Michaelangelo had? (2009-10-30)
... that U.S. Civil Rights Movement leader Marie Foster walked fifty miles in a march, despite receiving injuries two weeks earlier on Bloody Sunday? (2009-10-26)
... that English author Selina Davenport, in an attempt to support herself and her two daughters after separating from her husband, ran both a coffee house and a dance school? (2009-10-07)
... that even though Karen Platou in 1921 was the first woman elected to the Norwegian Parliament, the first woman to sit in that assembly was Anna Rogstad, ten years earlier? (2009-09-07)
... that Evelyn Scotney, an Australian coloratura soprano, sang opposite Enrico Caruso in his final appearance on the opera stage? (2009-06-08)
... that Hannah Tracy Cutler wrote an advice column for farm girls before she became president of the American Woman Suffrage Association in 1870? (2009-06-01)
... that the American sisters Rose and Ottilie Sutro were the world's first duo-piano team? (2009-04-16)
... that Sonia Chang-Díaz won a seat in the Massachusetts Senate after her opponent was accused of stuffing her bra? (2009-04-01)
... that Justice M. Fathima Beevi was the first woman judge of the Supreme Court of India and also first of any highest judiciary of a nation in Asia? (2009-01-24)
... that operatic soprano Maria Zamboni was the first person to record the title role of Puccini's Manon Lescaut in its entirety? (2009-01-10)
... that Mildred Constantine organized the 1968 exhibition Word and Image of 300 posters at the Museum of Modern Art called "so handsome that for a minute you wonder why billboards are disfigurements"? (2008-12-23)
... that the force-feeding of suffragette, arsonist and hunger-striker Lilian Lenton caused food to enter her lungs and led to public outrage? (2008-11-12)
... that painter Henrietta Rae burned Valentine Prinsep's hat in revenge for his smearing one of her works with cobalt blue paint? (2008-10-30)
... that artist Henrietta Ward claimed she gave her husband's friend Wilkie Collins the idea for his novel The Woman In White? (2008-10-29)
... that Mary Ann Müller has been described as "New Zealand's pioneer suffragist"? (2008-10-21)
... that Cornelia Adair, during World War I, invited Belgian refugees to stay at her Glenveagh Castle in County Donegal, Ireland? (2008-05-29)
... that Adrianne Calvo is the youngest chef to have cooked for the United Nations? (2008-04-11)
... that Kitty Kielland had to take private landscape painting lessons from Hans Gude because she was a woman? (2008-03-30)
... that Randi Weingarten, the openly gay president of the United Federation of Teachers, has been called one of the 25 most powerful women in New York City business? (2008-03-01)
... that Adelaide Johnson, sculptor of a memorial to women's suffrage in the US Capitol, was married in 1896 by a female minister, with two of her busts as bridesmaids? (2008-01-16)
... that the first co-ed school in Azerbaijan was founded by Hamida Javanshir in 1908? (2007-12-07)
... that then-President of the United States Franklin Pierce and all of his cabinet attended the second wedding of playwright Anna Cora Mowatt? (2007-08-10)
... that Anne Hyde Choate was the second president of the Girl Scouts of the USA and also an international Scouting leader in WAGGGS for fifty years? (2007-04-26)
... that feminist author Yuriko Miyamoto wrote over 900 letters to her imprisoned husband, defying Japan's draconian Peace Preservation Laws? (2007-01-31)
... that Minnie Evans received inspiration for her colored pencil drawings from her dreams? (2006-11-21)
... that Lady Sybil Grant (pictured), the eldest daughter of the British Prime Minister Lord Dalmeny, in her later years, became an eccentric, spending most of her time in a caravan or up a tree, communicating to her butler through a megaphone? (2006-10-26)
... that Florence Mary Taylor was the first female architect in Australia? (2006-09-25)
... that having served as both Assistant to the President and Deputy Chief of Staff to President Bill Clinton, Maria Echaveste is one of the highest-ranking Latinas to have served in a Presidential Administration? (2006-08-30)
... that Russian composer Ella Adayevskaya took her pseudonym from the notes played by the kettledrum in Mikhail Glinka's opera Ruslan and Ludmila? (2006-06-22)
... that Marie Selipha Sesenne Descartes, better known simply as Sesenne, was a Saint Lucian singer and cultural icon who was awarded the British Empire Medal in 1972? (2006-05-11)
... that the 1972 case of Yvonne Wanrow, a Colville Indian, charged with the murder of a child molester, brought about changes in U.S. criminal law as it affects women and Native Americans? (2005-11-23)
... that Margaret Roper, daughter of Thomas More, purchased his head after his execution and preserved it in spices until her own death? (2005-08-10)