The Guardian recently highlighted the life and work of Mary Warnock, an educator, philosopher, and ethicist: The practical philosopher• Related: Women in Philosophy | Women in Life Sciences

Jessamyn Neuhaus has produced an interesting study of cookbooks -- and how they subtly but consistently reinforce the culture's stereotypes about women's proper roles. During World War II, cookbooks emphasized ... Read More

In addition to the categories by time period of women writers already on this site, I've added categories for British Women Writers and African American Women Writers. Explore resources ... Read More

Can it really be 25 years since the birth of Louise Brown, the first test-tube baby? Find some commemorative stories about this anniversary: • 1978: First-ever 'test tube baby' born - ... Read More

Suzy Whaley explains how she made the decision to make history as the first woman to play a PGA Tour event. • Woman on the Verge Related: • Annika Sorenstam • More on the history of ... Read More

Known best as the author of Little Women, Louisa May Alcott was a popular writer of the 19th century, a Civil War Nurse and a part of the Transcendentalist circle ... Read More

Eleanor Roosevelt wrote daily newspaper columns, mixing news of her activities as First Lady with informal commentary on the events of the day. The columns read a whole ... Read More

Dorothy Height was the head of the National Council of Negro Women for 41 years, and has worked for racial justice for more than 60 years. Gwen Ifill interviewed ... Read More

Marilyn French once defined feminism as "the belief that women matter as much as men do." Women clearly matter to her: Marilyn French's three-volume work on women's history became ... Read More

Canadian author Carol Shields died this week. For some background on this feminist writer, see Carol Shields, 68, hailed as a gifted writer, strong feminist (Canadian news). More (with updates): • ... Read More

Two developments yesterday and today in the case of Aung San Suu Kyi, opposition leader in Burma (Myanmar) who was arrested May 30: • UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan called on Burma's rulers ... Read More

Cate Blanchett plays the title role in this new film about an Irish woman journalist, murdered in 1996. The film was released in Ireland over the weekend -- not ... Read More

A Reuters story from July 9 notes that more women are entering the field of astronomy than men today: Majority of youngest astronomers (Chicago Tribune) An analysis from the Christian Science ... Read More

It's already #2 at Amazon.com just two days after publication: A. Scott Berg's memoir of Katharine Hepburn, kept under wraps and in deep secrecy until after her death at her ... Read More

Jane Austen's been in the news lately -- quite a bit! The sale of a first edition of Pride and Prejudice; opening a museum with Austen material and a ... Read More

Josephine Jacobsen, an American, in 1971 became a consultant to the Library of Congress on poetry -- a position now called poet laureate of the United States. Kathleen Raines, ... Read More

I have been fascinated since I was a little girl with the stories of Henry VIII's six wives. I even remember a slightly-embarrassing play some of us put on ... Read More

In a series currently being aired by NPR about the origins of American music, a lot of attention's being paid to the role of women, especially in the first two ... Read More

When I began working on the About Women's History site, I received many questions about good collections of images and clip art related to the topic. Over the years, ... Read More

Recently, Sandra Day O'Connor played a pivotal role as the U.S. Supreme Court made decisions which conservatives decred on affirmative action and gay rights. And she was widely reported ... Read More

Theories about Stonehenge are many, and a new one is that it's an anatomical symbol designed by people who worshiped the Earth Mother or Great Goddess. The Observer (UK) ... Read More

The BBC reports the reason women in the 1890s adopted white as tennis clothing: so it didn't show perspiration: BBC NEWS | 10 things we didn't know this time last ... Read More