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Florence Melton wanted others to "spend some, save some, and share some."

Movie vamp Carmel Myers thought "Nice ladies are just like wallpaper."

“If the environment permits it, anyone can learn whatever he chooses to learn." Viola Spolin, the “godmother of improvisation"

Judith Resnik joined the crew of the maiden flight of the orbiter Discovery

Death of Pioneer Fanny Brooks

"Batwoman is an important character, and a socially important one that has meaning that extends well beyond the printed pages of the world she lives in."

Founding of Ma’yan, Home for Young Women’s Resources

MIT’s Shafi Goldwasser won the Alan M. Turing Award for her work in computer cryptography, which revolutionized internet security.

Comic marvel Joan Rivers is born

"No major guest stars, not even any minor ones—just me and a bunch of great songs and some wonderful musicians."

Maggie Gyllenhaal connected to the most ancient Jewish women by PBS’ Finding Your Roots

“As a Jew I’m supposed to do this,” Elizabeth Swados said. “It’s called a mitzvah. I think I’m buying some good Jewish time from this.”

“Science is a way of life.  I think it all comes from the inside.  It really gets to the very core of your existence.  It is much like being an artist or a dancer.

“There have been a handful of women that could have been the ‘Justin Bieber of tech,’ but Sheryl is the real deal … Young women really want to be her and learn from her.”

Early in her career, Barbara Wertheim’s job was clipping and filing newspaper articles for The Nation magazine.  The fact that her father had bought the publication to keep it from go

Declaring a “new sensibility that was “defiantly pluralistic,” Susan Sontag published wide-ranging criticism that was a force in American culture for over 40 years.  She rejected limitations o

In 1973, artist Judy Chicago, graphic designer Sheila Levant de Bretteville, and art historian Arlene Raven set out to find a home in Los Angeles for the Feminist Studio Workshop (FSW), their new independent school for women artists. The space they chose occupied the site of the old Chouinard Art Institute near MacArthur Park.  The Woman’s Building, as they called their new home, was a hotbed of creativity and inspiration for the next 18 years.

When Helen Suzman was buried on this day in Johannesburg, the African National Congress hailed her as a woman who became “a thorn in the flesh of apartheid by openly criticizing segregation of Blac