Daily Stories on Hidden Women Inventors, Pioneers, Heroes, and Leaders the Patriarchy doesn't want you to know about
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At 24, Alice Augusta Ball, a chemistry student at the University of Hawaiʻi, developed the first effective, injectable treatment for Hansen's disease AKA leprosy.
Alicia Thornton rode sideways, in a skirt, with no whip—and still beat the top jockey in England in front of a huge crowd. And we don’t even know the name of the first woman ever to race against men.
Alice H. Parker invented the heating furnace and gave birth to every heating system in the world produced so far.
Bina Das was a young freedom fighter who took up arms against the British, attempting to assassinate the British Governor of Bengal, Stanley Jackson, when she was just 21.
At the height of the Cold War, Angeline Nanni took on America’s most secretive counterespionage effort ever set out to crack unbreakable ciphers
The Miniaturist Who Changed Royal Portraits Forever
The Woman Who Invented Rock and Roll
The Sculptor Who Refused to Break
The Woman Who Invented Science Fiction
The Woman Who Forced Britain to Confront their Transphobia
The Genius Inventor Who Made Driving Safe
The Mathematical Genius Who Saw Beyond Numbers
The Invisible Woman Behind Dr. Martin Luther King
