Before feminine hygiene products were provided for free at Missouri prisons, roughly 80% of incarcerated women reported they were using homemade tampons and pads, leading to infections.

Afghan and American female soldiers gathered critical intelligence in unprecedented roles that changed the future of women in combat

"We women all want to feel good in our skin," German gymnast Sarah Voss said. "In the sport of gymnastics it gets harder and harder as you grow out of your child's body. As a little girl I didn't see the tight gym outfits as such a big deal. But when puberty began, when my period came, I began feeling increasingly uncomfortable."

Shields, a two-time Olympic gold medalist, is working to highlight the major discrepancies between men's and women’s boxing, including a pay gap owed to less time spent inside the ring. She says she and her fellow female fighters are willing to put in the work to earn the same pay as their male colleagues if they are permitted the extra time to complete more money-making performances and knockouts.

Bryony Frost made horse racing history on Saturday, becoming the first woman jockey to win the King George VI Chase. After the race, Frost said she had not realized the significance of her victory. “I didn’t realize that,” Frost told The Guardian. “That’s kind of cool.”

“It was just an amazing experience. I have to say, the team was so supportive, the guys were helping me through the game, and wanted me to do well.”

Since 2010, the amount of female truck drivers has increased immensely -- by 68 percent, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal. And equal pay for drivers, regardless of gender, is purportedly a big reason why the job has become more enticing to women.

E-commerce software platform Volusion analyzed data from the U.S. Census Bureau to determine which metropolitan areas had the largest percentage of female-owned businesses. Here are the top 10 cities that have female business owners in abundance.

"These shootings overwhelmingly — almost exclusively — are males, boys, men. I do think that is missing in the national conversation," Newsom said, according to Politico. "I think that goes deep to the issue of how we raise our boys to be men, goes deeply to values that we tend to hold dear — power, dominance, aggression, over empathy, care and collaboration."