From the Smithsonian : In the spring of 1913, women in six states had the right to vote in all elections: Wyoming, Colorado, Utah, Idaho, Wa...

End Invasion Searches Of Female Prisoners

From Detriot Free Press : The American Civil Liberties Union said it plans today to urge the Michigan Department of Corrections to ban an in...

The Woman Who Fell from the Sky

From the National : When Jennifer Steil took on the challenge of editing the Yemen Observer for a year, she was prepared for an adventure. B...

Female Flatfoots of Old Chicago

From Chicago Mag : Strayer's story reminded me of one of her contemporaries, one of the most fascinating and inspiring figures in early ...

Saint Katharine Drexel

From Philly Burbs : She was an assertive Philadelphia debutante who dreamed of changing the world and had the family fortune to make it happ...

Book: 50 Years - 50 Women

From the Daily Advance : There is pride in Bill Sterritt’s voice. He’s the proud father a book. It’s a book that has been a labor of love f...

Maids In America - The Help

From the Sydney Morning Herald : The Help is already a big success. Having blitzed the US box office, it looks like making more money than ...

Anniversary of 19th Amendment

From Campbell Patch : Today is the 91st anniversary of the 19th amendment to the US Constitution taking effect, giving women the right to vo...

Three Female Conservationalists

From High Country News : In the beginning, there was only water as far as the eye could see, according to the Chemehuevi Indians, who once t...

Women Survivors of The Alamo

From My San Antonio : In a July 10 column, reader Richard Villanueva asked if there were other female survivors of the siege and battle of t...

Book: Women & Slavery In America

From News Wise : Women and Slavery in America: A Documentary History , edited by Catherine M. Lewis and J. Richard Lewis has been published ...

Wicked Women of Northeast Ohio

From Ohio.com : There are wicked women everywhere. Though Northeast Ohio hasn't hosted the likes of Bonnie Parker or Lizzie Borden, we h...

Execution of Mary Dyer

From The Examiner : On this day, June 1, in 1660, American colonist Mary Dyer was hanged in Boston for violating Massachusetts Bay Colony la...

Willa Cather's Unfinished Novel

From Google : A passage from Willa Cather's unfinished and purportedly destroyed novel "Hard Punishments" was among a new coll...

Historic Women of Waukesha

From Waukesha Patch : History books about our area are replete with the men who made Waukesha famous, from spring prospectors like Col. Dunb...

The Woman in the Sunbonnet

From RGJ.com : If it weren't for the courageous, long suffering pioneer women who left their families to come West in the mid1800s, Neva...

Robin Oliveira - My Name Is Mary Sutter

From Buffalo Rising : This book is a good suggestion for reading on the occasion starting this year of the 150th anniversary of the Civil Wa...

Film - The Conspirator

From Gateway : " The Conspirator " is the story of Mary Surratt (Robin Wright), the only woman charged as a co-conspirator in the ...