Discover the stories of pioneering female archaeologists from across Europe
Suits designed by women, for women
Questioning the status quo through fashion
Gender gaps & inequality illustrated by GIFs
Animating inequality between men and women in all areas of society
Alice Guy-Blaché: cinema pioneer
Film's first female director and the first woman to run her own studio
Kimono: the women’s garment shaping cross-cultural exchange
The social history of the kimono represents a unique cultural exchange between Japan and Europe
Sjoukje Dijkstra: champion figure skater
First Dutch gold medal winner at the Winter Olympic Games
Murasaki Shikibu & The Tale of Genji
Defining author of Japanese literature in the Heian period
Simone Veil
Survivor, activist, feminist, politician
Picturing women at work
What visual representations of women working tell us about women’s history
Fanny Durack: winner of the first women’s Olympic swimming medal
Irish-Australian who set swimming world records
Angela Davis: political activist
African-American philosopher and author combatting racism, sexism and homophobia
The bias cut and Madeleine Vionnet
Femininity as encounter of technology and sensuality in the 1920s and 1930s
Why the shamrock is a symbol of Ireland
How Saint Patrick explained the holy trinity
School sports: photographs from the Rathdown School Archive
Archive photographs from a girls school in Dublin
Frida Kahlo: identity in art
Role model for generations of artists, bisexual women and people with disabilities
Siw Malmkvist, Swedish singer and actress
The first Swede to hit the US charts
Empress Cixi, the last woman to rule China
In the 19th century, when Queen Victoria was on the throne, another woman was governing a world power on the opposite side of the globe: Empress Dowager Cixi.
The women behind Beauty and the Beast
Meet the authors and illustrators who brought the fairy tale to life
Madame Delait, the bearded lady
Clémentine Delait found fame in the early 1900s
Eartha Kitt: singer, actor and activist
Known for her distinctive singing style and voice, Eartha Kitt was active in social causes in the 1950s and 1960s