They danced, they drank smuggled booze, and they rewrote the rules of womanhood. The flappers of the Roaring Twenties weren’t ...

For example, a 2022 study of nearly 306,000 people in 57 countries found that women demonstrated more cognitive empathy than ...

The government rolled out a longer, harder exam this month for aspiring Americans. More than 350,000 Washington Post readers ...

At the turn of the century, Australian women artists travelled to Europe and returned with new styles and techniques. Their ...

The Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, the Women’s Suffrage Amendment, prohibited the United States and its states from denying the right to vote to the citizens of our country on the ...

“Of course the women were important, but it was because they were our muses.” With these words, Roland Penrose, second ...

In 1797 the “petticoat band” showed up to vote for the New Jersey state legislature, but only on a technicality. Their impact ...

JANESVILLE – Helen Menzies Sutherland’s election to the Janesville School Board in April 1920 couldn’t have come at a more historic moment for American women. Less than a year earlier, in June 1919, ...

See photos from the 1920s in Louisville. From Kentucky Derby styles to patients at Waverly Hills Sanatorium and the opening ...

In 1995, people pushing homemade coffins took off in the first-ever race of its kind in Manitou Springs in what is known as the Emma Crawford Coffin Races. One of its participants was Barb Reichter, a ...

The bob hairstyle has been through a lot. As the butt of a joke, a symbol of female liberation, and a marker of societal ...