Inji Efflatoun (1924-1989) was an Egyptian feminist activist and pioneering artist. She used her surrealist paintings to...

Gertrude Benham (1867-1938) was a world traveler and master mountaineer who scaled over 300 mountains in her lifetime You’re...

Forugh Farrokhzad (1935-1967) rejected patriarchal assumptions of womanhood through her poetry. In her revolutionary and...

Florence Kelley (1859-1932) refused to accept the terrible working conditions of her time. Her reforms completely changed the...

Scientist Leona Zacharias was a rare woman. She graduated from Barnard College in 1927 with a degree in biology, followed by a...

Eva Kotchever (1891-1943) wrote one of the earliest books of American lesbian literature. She was an openly gay Jewish immigrant...

Elizabeth Packard (1816-1897) fought for her own freedom after her husband forced her into a mental institution for expressing...

Elizabeth Freeman (c. 1744-1829) was the first enslaved woman to file and win a freedom suit in the state of Massachusetts. Her...