Andrea Jenkins is the first African-American openly trangender woman elected to public office in the United States. After attending the...

Qiu Jin was both a poet as well as a revolutionary for women's rights and their access to education. Jin left her significantly older...

Wilma Rudolph became a world-record-holding Olympic champion in track in field. Rudolph accomplished this feat dispite having lost strength...

Rosalind Franklin wasn't rightly recognized for her part in the discovery of the DNA's double helical structure. Franklin's final five...

Caroline Herschel is the first profession woman astronomer in history. Born in 1750, Herschel is noted for spotting a comet and was...