Forgotten Feminists

Wally Funk, who was barred from becoming a NASA astronaut in the 1960s despite passing every test, finally flew to space at age 82.

In the early 20th century, Audrey Munson was the face of beauty, virtue, and nationhood. Then America discarded her.

Funny, subversive and sympathetic to the plight of the housewife, Peg Bracken helped women put dinner on the table so they could get back to what they really wanted to be doing.

She did not frame her success as a triumph of gender or claim to be breaking barriers. Instead, she spoke of civic duty and circumstance

The civil-rights pioneer and feminist visionary Pauli Murray reshaped American law and identity. Her voice matters as inequality deepens.

Written out of the history of suffrage, Jeannette Rankin was a remarkable feminist and congresswoman. The author Lorissa Rinehart finally tells her story.

These five women should be as famous—and well off—as Silicon Valley's finest.

Her software company would change everything; perhaps most notably how—and where—women could work.

There’s no way of knowing what Margaret Fuller might have achieved if she hadn’t died in the summer of 1850.

Fanny Wilkinson designed more 75 public gardens in London during her 20-year career. Now she's being commemorated by the sculptor Gillian Brett.

Her name may not be a household name, but ‘HeLa cells’ from Henrietta Lacks's cervix changed the world.

The Equal Rights Amendment is a simple 24-word piece of legislation. But it’s also a historic movement, more than a century in the making, that began with women’s suffrage and continues to this day.

The idea of birth control entered the national conversation in 1919, when an artist, activist, and single mother named Mary Ware Dennett brought the (quite shocking!) idea to Congress.

How Shirley Chisholm, who ran for president against all odds, forever altered the landscape for women in U.S. politics.

Lilly Ledbetter, for whom America’s Fair Pay Act of 2009 was named, has died. She was 86.

History is rife with examples of women who effected change, then vanished into obscurity. When it comes to the story of how the 19th Amendment became a reality—irony be damned—it’s no different.