Women: Did you mean...?

This collection presents biographies of 21 famous women from world history but those included represent only a small fraction of the many women, from ancient times to the present, who have made a lasting impression on the people of their...

Women played a significant role in the French Revolution, exemplified in the Women's March on Versailles, on 5-6 October 1789. Image from the book Stories of the French Revolution by Walter Montgomery, 1893. Library of Congress Digital Collections...

A photograph of women working in an armaments factory in Yorkshire, England during the Second World War (1939-45). The women are here finishing 2,000lb bombs for aircraft. Imperial War Museums

An 1885 oil on canvas, Women Bathing, Dieppe, by Paul Gauguin (1848-1903) the French post-impressionist painter. Although the artist was influenced by the impressionists and experimented with that technique, this work illustrates that Gauguin...

In this gallery, we showcase images of 30 influential women from the Middle Ages. Usually dated from c. 500 to c. 1500, this was a complex and transformative period in European history filled with political turmoil and dynamic social and...

The first female warrior attested to historically is Queen Ahhotep I of Egypt (l. c. 1570-1530 BCE) who put down a rebellion by the Hyksos when her son, Ahmose I, was campaigning against the Nubians. In literature, the first mention of women...

The high status of women in ancient Egypt was reflected in many aspects of the culture but, notably, in the number of female deities who embodied the concept of the Divine Feminine and were honored by both women and men. Women were regarded...

The women of ancient Egypt were highly regarded. Although the man was the head of the household, the woman made sure that household functioned as it was supposed to. Female deities were among the most popular in ancient Egypt and so it is...

Song Dynasty women inspecting a bolt of silk. 12th century CE. Painted on silk. (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, USA)

A May 1944 photograph of women prisoners at the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp complex in Poland which was set up by the SS to murder those identified as enemies of Nazi Germany, especially Jewish people.