From a rock and roll grandmother to a Ukrainian resistance fighter to an early abolitionist, these women live on through metal and stone.

For nine decades, Fang-od Oggay has been single-handedly keeping the traditions of the Butbut tribe alive through a unique method of hand-tap tattooing. She was the first female tattoo artist in Kalinga. Over time there has been a shift, with young women taking up the ancient tradition. Through tattooing, they are economically supporting the whole village.

For as long as there have been priates lurking on the waves, there have been women among their feared, loathed, revered ranks. A new book, “Pirate Women”, uncovers the stories of the women who sailed their way into history, cutlass in hand.

Emily Ford is the first woman and first person of color to complete the grueling hike.

Ten places that honor women on the frontlines of equality, music, and more.

Haenyeo is Korean for “sea women.” Nearly 90 percent of haenyeo are over the age of 60, and many are well into their eighties. Equipped with nothing other than an ancient breathing technique called sumbisori, the women travel as deep as 32 feet into the depths for the best of what the sea has to offer: octopus, abalone, conch, sea urchins, clams and edible seaweeds.

She’s the only woman veteran honored with a monument at West Point. But where was she buried?

The Golden Fourteen - fourteen Black women who were the first to serve in the U.S. Navy - were largely forgotten to history. They were part of a larger group of over 11,000 women, almost all of them white, who were able to join the navy as yeomanettes, the title given to female yeomen as a result of staffing shortages in the lead up to WWI.

Over the centuries and across cultures, the ideal female body type has fluctuated. The flapper look, popularized in the early 1920's, was lean and androgynous, and maintaining that ideal often required a special “flapper diet.”

California has long been associated with fantasy, but few people know that centuries before Hollywood, it drew its very name from an imaginary kingdom—one ruled by a Black queen.

"The Single Footed Woman was beautiful and she cheated on her husband, so he cut her leg off. She escaped into the jungle and swore revenge against all men. She appears in the nighttime, singing with a celestial timbre that captivates men, old and young alike. Sometimes, she screams for help so they come to save her. That’s when she traps them. She sucks out their blood and then she heads back into the jungle to hide."