Helen Gurley Brown (c.1922-2012) helped shape a new vision of working girls. As editor and chief of Cosmopolitan magazine and...

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Trendsetters: Donna Summer
Donna Summer (1948 – 2012) was a musician who provided the soundtrack for America’s disco era. Her breathy voice and...
Trendsetters: Hanae Mori
Hanae Mori (c. 1926-2022), known in the fashion world as “Madame Butterfly,” broke barriers between East and West. She was the...
Trendsetters: Colleen Moore
Colleen Moore (1899 – 1988) was Hollywood’s original flapper. Throughout the Roaring Twenties, she popularized the...
Lost Women of Science Part 1: Why Did Lise Meitner Never Receive the Nobel Prize for Splitting the Atom?
New translations of hundreds of letters explain, in a two-part episode of Lost Women of Science, why physicist Lise Meitner was...
Trendsetters: Ruth Westheimer
Dr. Ruth Westheimer (1928 – present) has helped her listeners, viewers, and readers have more fulfilling sex for over four...
Trendsetters: Caresse Crosby
Caresse Crosby (1892-1970) was the inventor of the bra and a godmother to some of the biggest artists and literary names from...
Trendsetters: Oei Hui-lan
Oei Hui-lan (1899-1992) was a dazzling socialite who used her style and fashion to walk between cultures and worlds of fashion...
Trendsetters: Mary Quant
Mary Quant (1930-2023) was one of the most iconic fashion designers of the 1960s. Her designs forever changed the way women...
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