Women worth knowing
Extraordinary women, overlooked stories, and a more complete history. Explore the lives, ideas, and achievements that changed the world.
Women advanced climate research, defended forests, and built conservation movements, combining science with grassroots action to change how societies understood and protected nature.
She used celebrity to support wartime resistance and challenge racism, turning the access granted by fame into a means of gathering intelligence and demanding justice.
She recruited and led women pilots during wartime, demonstrating their ability to fly military aircraft and expanding the responsibilities they were allowed to take on.
She nursed fellow prisoners through disease and near-starvation in a wartime camp, then survived to continue caring for patients and teaching others to do the same.