Women in History

Famous Women In History. Timeline, List and Articles About Famous and Important Women In History: Politicians, Women's Rights and Suffrage Advocates.

The 75 greatest women of all time: A definitive list of the women who have shaped the world. Well, inasmuch as definitive can be completely arbitrary.

Official Amelia Earhart site, includes biography and rare photos.

Three percent of tenured professors of physics in this country are women. Nonetheless, a woman physicist stopped light in her lab at Harvard. Another woman runs the linear accelerator at Stanford. A woman discovered the first evidence for dark matter. A woman found the top quark. The list doesn't stop there, but the point is clear.

Before Marie Curie, these women dedicated their lives to science and made significant advances.

Women's history is the study of the role that women have played in history and the methods required to do so. It includes the study of the history of the growth of woman's rights throughout recorded history, the examination of individual and groups of women of historical significance, and the effect that historical events have had on women.

Throughout most of history women generally have had fewer legal rights and career opportunities than men. Wifehood and motherhood were regarded as women's most significant professions. In the 20th century, however, women in most nations won the right to vote and increased their educational and job opportunities. Perhaps most important, they fought for and to a large degree accomplished a reevaluation of traditional views of their role in society.

Find out more about the leaders, events and laws that helped shape women's history in America. Get facts, videos, articles and pictures on History.

These are just some of the women who, historically speaking, didn't give a single fuck.

The great potty controversy received news coverage in both the Washington Post and the New York Times, where the female senators were reduced to raving perkily about their new facilities.