Maria Clementina Sobieski – one of just three women buried in St Peter’s Basilica – lived a life of extraordinary defiance and determination.

Fred Zeilberger survived five concentration camps during the Holocaust before finding the love of his life on Long Island.

In porcelain, Jessica Stoller uses the grotesque and monstrous to deconstruct stereotypes surrounding the female body.

Good Girl,” by the German-born writer Aria Aber, asks what it means to want to belong to a society that wishes you harm.

Brueghel's famous 17th-century painting "Woman Carrying the Embers" vanished from a Polish museum in 1974. Fifty years later, ...

The Government of Canada’s theme for International Women’s Day 2025 is Strength in every story. This year’s theme highlights the importance of amplifying the voices of all women, particularly those ...

By partnering with Margot Lee Shetterly and the Human Computer Project, the Smithsonian American Women's History Museum is ...

Composer Julia Wolfe’s “Her Story” received its D.C. premiere with conductor Marin Alsop, the National Symphony Orchestra and ...

The day everything changed “I have always been an overweight person, with my weight fluctuating between 85-100kgs [about 187-220 lbs] most of my adult life,” the Gold Coast woman told news.com.au.

The department also launched a website promoting these definitions and created a video defending a ban on transgender women participating in women’s sports. HHS says the action was prompted by ...

When we sit down to think about the Women of the Year each winter, we ask ourselves the same question: What are the most significant issues facing women and girls around the world right now?

Ancient human remains discovered in an Irish bog in October 2023 don't belong to a teenage boy as originally assumed but rather a young woman, making them an exceptionally rare find. Over the past ...