Women worth knowing
Extraordinary women, overlooked stories, and a more complete history. Explore the lives, ideas, and achievements that changed the world.
She turned women’s everyday grievances into a campaign for political rights, using journalism, organizing, and persistent lobbying to challenge restrictions on their independence.
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 journalism to argue for political rights and practical clothing, linking women’s ability to move freely with their right to participate in public life.
She built schools and a newspaper to advance Black freedom and opportunity, using education and publishing to challenge slavery and support communities across national borders.
She used investigative writing to expose lynching and the lies used to justify it, carrying the fight against racial violence to audiences across national borders.
She went undercover to expose abuse and used bold reporting to demand change, challenging the belief that women journalists belonged only on society pages.