Narrow standards of beauty, whether they dictate body size or one’s fashion sense, remain powerful in many settings. But ...

Collinsville author Thelma Ball has published a new book documenting the history of two major World War II defense plants in ...

Show Me St. Louis celebrates 30 years with a special Throwback Thursday featuring a group of pioneering female WWII veterans.

At the age of 10, flipping through issues of Life magazine at the library every week, Dolores Allen Littles knew. “I loved ...

Edda L. Fields-Black is the winner of the 2025 Pulitzer Prize in History, and the author of “Combee: Harriet Tubman, the ...

Three filmmakers dive into the battles that both united and divided the women’s liberation movement of the 1970s, as ...

The Nordic country for the first time has extended a lottery for compulsory military service to women in its latest move to ...

How Claire McCardell changed women’s fashion ...

The latest work of historical non-fiction from Meg Waite Clayton, 'Typewriter Beach,' looks at the hurdles women face in ...

The book, authored by Mary M. Cronin and Bruce Berman, is titled, “Home Front: Alfred T. Palmer’s World War II Photography.” ...

In 1945, 19-year-old Princess Elizabeth joined the Auxiliary Territorial Service, the women's branch of the British Army.

Wimbledon is the oldest tennis tournament in the world, and one of the most prestigious. Played every year on the grass courts at the All England Croquet and Lawn Tennis Club in Wimbledon, in ...