The empress, like many other rulers at the time, legitimized her reign through Buddhism, portraying herself either as a ...

Artemisia Gentileschi once said, “My illustrious lordship, I’ll show you what a woman can do.” This bold statement documented in Bridget Quinn’s “Broad Strokes” encapsulates the fierce determination o ...

The heroic conductor on the Underground Railroad was reared on the site in the wilderness of Maryland’s Eastern Shore.

From the fight for voting rights to the establishment of Women’s History Month, here’s how Sonoma County women looked and fared in the 1890s and 1990s.

In the short term, this was a successful strategy: car manufacturers that advertised to female consumers survived much longer ...

Although men were the primary landowners, women often oversaw the property rights of the land during the Civil War in ...

Speaking on the appeal for Ava, a Garda spokesperson said: "Gardaí are appealing to the public for assistance in tracing the ...

The No. 1 seeded USC Trojans women’s basketball team the No. 9 Indiana Hoosiers in their first ever Big Ten tournament game. It was a close matchup, but the Wom ...

They had come to deliver horrific news: the girl's body had been found. At about 2 p.m. Saturday, police were called to the 1800 block of Sigsbee Road on a report of a body found near railroad ...

Authorities say 12-year-old Lailanna Edmonds and 16-year-old Amarie Silverthorn were walking south on the 1800 block of ...

UPDATE 10:45 a.m. Authorities have confirmed that both missing girls have been found safe in Minneapolis. A search is underway for two girls missing from the St. Anthony area of the Twin Cities.

In honor of International Women's Day, here are some of the best ways to celebrate the holiday and Women's History Month in Philadelphia.