“At the end of the day, it’s just nail polish, okay?”

Each year, youths in Japan celebrate “Coming of Age Day” with traditional outfits but this young woman took it a step further by snowboarding in her kimono.

"These women wear their experiences on their (wrinkled) faces. Their lifestyle is difficult and dangerous, but it is what they have been doing their whole lives and they are proud of their traditions."

The contribution of women to the world of street art is highlighted in a new book by journalist Alessandra Mattanza. Women Street Artists is a look at 24 women across the globe who are making their mark in public spaces through painted murals, stencils, posters, and much more.

“Growing up as a little girl, I always looked up to [Disney's] princesses and admired [their] stories. I noticed that they all had the exact same body proportions, and that made it harder for me to relate to them as I grew up.”

A celebrated group of ballerinas will appear on the 2023 Native American $1 coin. Designed to honor “American Indians in Ballet,” the design shows Maria Tallchief in a balletic pose.

“Lena’s legacy will never die. It’s because of people like her that Broadway— theater, in general—and the entertainment industry made progress in the march towards racial equality”

The protest comes after boys were allowed by the Taliban to attend school, but remained silent on allowing girls inside the classroom.

Edward Charles Pickering, the male director of the Harvard College Observatory, began hiring women in the late 1800's to crunch numbers in his quest to document all of the stars in the sky. These human “computers” have been largely consigned to the footnotes of history, but their contributions to astronomy helped catalog and map over 400,000 stars and helped to build the foundations of modern astronomy.

When 7-year-old Jeremy Rowan was asked to dress as his idol for his school's Spirit Day, he knew exactly who he wanted to be. He chose to dress as Amanda Gorman, the youngest poet laureate in U.S. history.