Women and Girls

This article is part of Overlooked, a series of obituaries about remarkable people whose deaths, beginning in 1851, went unreported...

Judith Arcana was 27 and recently separated from her husband when she began driving women surreptitiously for safe — but...

DUBLIN — The murder in broad daylight of a 23-year-old schoolteacher who had been jogging on a well-frequented path along...

In her five decades on Madison Avenue, she cracked the glass ceiling at a time when women were rarely seen...

The Smithsonian Institution has named Cynthia Chavez Lamar as the new director of the National Museum of the American Indian.Chavez...

The painter, writer and the only woman with the spunk and self-determination to leave Picasso has a few things to...

MEXICO CITY — One year ago, Carolina Altamirano left her home in Oaxaca City, Mexico, where she had been skateboarding...

To the Editor:“An Assault on the Truth,” by Rebecca Solnit (Opinion guest essay, Sunday Review, Jan. 9), masks the political...

Soon after the news broke that Rachel Balkovec had been hired to become the first woman to serve as a...

When Sagal Jama, a student and content creator in Toronto, noticed that balaclavas were becoming a popular winter accessory, she...