July 21, 2015 America’s first female police officer Marie Owens joined the Chicago Police Department in 1891, making her the earliest known policewoman in the United States.
July 21, 2015 New Xena show in the works NBC is planning a "modern reboot" of Xena: Warrior Princess.
July 20, 2015 Women medical pioneers In 1885, three women from Japan, India, and Syria studied to become some of the first female doctors of their countries.
July 17, 2015 A peek at the lives of Afghani schoolchildren NPR talks to schoolchildren in Kabul about their days and their dreams.
July 16, 2015 Ida B. Wells’ 153rd Birthday Google celebrates the birthday of a former Rejected Princess
Ida Laura Pfeiffer (1797-1857) The Travelogue Queen Starting her travels at 45 years old, this globetrotter became a worldwide sensation for going boldly where no woman had gone before.
July 14, 2015 The Women who Power NASA’s New Horizons Mission to Pluto Dozens of women we to investigate Pluto
July 13, 2015 Malawian chief annuls child marriages, sends kids to school Senior Chief Inkosi Kachindamoto annulled hundreds of marriages involving children so they could go to school.
July 10, 2015 Civil War re-enactor making documentary about women who fought J.R. Hardman is fighting to up the profile of actual women who fought undercover in the American Civil War - so that she is accepted as a legitimate re-enactor.
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