Women worth knowing
Extraordinary women, overlooked stories, and a more complete history. Explore the lives, ideas, and achievements that changed the world.
Discovery, research, and the women who expanded knowledge.
Explore women scientists in history through their research, discoveries, and working lives. These stories follow women asking questions about the natural world, developing medicines and technologies, and pursuing knowledge despite barriers to education, employment, and recognition.
She helped make computer programming more accessible through readable instructions, transforming how people communicated with machines and opening new possibilities for building software.
She sold her home to build a children’s hospital, then devoted her career to improving care and reaching families poorly served by existing services.
She put her fortune behind women’s ability to choose when to have children, funding research that helped make the birth control pill a reality.