FORT LEAVENWORTH, Kansas (March 18, 2021) -- On June 12, 1948, President Harry Truman signed the Women’s Armed Services Integration Act, which legally permitted women to serve in any of the four ...

Welcome to Women of the Century, a commemoration of the 19th Amendment, a major step toward the universal right to vote in the United States. Here you will find interviews with trailblazing ...

Here are 10 women who have made significant political contributions in the 100 years since women won the right to vote with the 19th Amendment.

A 19th-century reformer’s vision could help advance women’s rights in 2022 The prescription to augment the push for equality March 25, 2022 More than 3 years ago ...

Wednesday, April 5, 2023 at 10 p.m. on KPBS 2 (no longer on demand). Hidden in American history, all women's medical schools began to appear in the mid 19th century long before women had the right ...

Though she’s dressed in an opulent, fur-trimmed gown in a palatial French home sometime in the mid-19th century, her silent fury is recognizable to women the world over who’ve contained their ...

But the major means of divorce in the 19th century was probably just leaving town. GROSS: (Laughter). ULRICH: And men did that more easily than women. But bigamy was pretty common in the 19th century.

Smashing the patriarchy is hard work. The Doctors Blackwell, by historian Janice P. Nimura, profiles two sisters who faced what was a daunting lack of choices for 19th century women. They achieved ...

Women from a 19th-century farming community in the Netherlands probably didn’t breastfeed their babies because they were too busy working. It is the first time that widespread artificial feeding ...

Historians have unearthed new evidence that, because of a strange loophole in New Jersey's state constitution, more than 100 women voted before 1807. But that power didn't last.

In the 19th century, several English women wrote accounts of their world travels. While considered by some as second-rate travellers, they were just as restless as their male contemporaries.

The film follows the challenging and illuminating history of 19th-century women doctors. Filmmaker Valerie Scoon's documentary explores the history of the early women physicians. Filled with grit ...