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A mother is the female parent of a child. A woman may be considered a mother by virtue of having given birth, by raising a child who may or may not be...

Sally Kristen Ride (May 26, 1951 – July 23, 2012) was an American astronaut and physicist. Born in Los Angeles, she joined NASA in 1978, and in 1983 became...

Grace Brewster Hopper (née Murray; December 9, 1906 – January 1, 1992) was an American computer scientist, mathematician, and United States Navy rear admiral...

Margaret Mead (December 16, 1901 – November 15, 1978) was an American cultural anthropologist who featured frequently as an author and speaker in the mass...

The presence of women in science spans the earliest times of the history of science wherein they have made significant contributions. Historians with an...

Marie Louise Hartman (born March 11, 1959), known professionally as Nina Hartley, is an American pornographic film actress and sex educator. By 2017 she...

Jeanne Louise Calment (French: [ʒan lwiz kalmɑ̃] ; 21 February 1875 – 4 August 1997) was a French supercentenarian and, with a documented lifespan of 122...

Rachel Louise Carson (May 27, 1907 – April 14, 1964) was an American marine biologist, writer, and conservationist whose sea trilogy (1941–1955) and book...

Maria Goeppert Mayer (German pronunciation: [maˈʁiːa ˈɡœpɛʁt ˈmaɪ̯ɐ] , née Göppert; June 28, 1906 – February 20, 1972) was a German-born American theoretical...

Abortion-rights movements, also self-styled as pro-choice movements, advocate for the right to have legal access to induced abortion services including...

Bessie Coleman (January 26, 1892 – April 30, 1926) was an early American civil aviator. She was the first African-American woman and first self-identified...

Azra Catherine Hilary Ghani MBE FMedSci is a British epidemiologist who is a professor of Infectious Disease Epidemiology at Imperial College London. Her...

Barbara McClintock (June 16, 1902 – September 2, 1992) was an American scientist and cytogeneticist who was awarded the 1983 Nobel Prize in Physiology...

Tara Melaine Ruttley (born 1975/1976) is Associate Chief Scientist for Microgravity Research at NASA Headquarters in Washington, DC. Prior to this, she...

Gerty Theresa Cori (née Radnitz; August 15, 1896 – October 26, 1957) was an Austrian-American biochemist who in 1947 was the third woman to win a Nobel...

The term "computer", in use from the early 17th century (the first known written reference dates from 1613), meant "one who computes": a person performing...

Dorothea Lynde Dix (April 4, 1802 – July 17, 1887) was an American advocate on behalf of the indigent mentally ill who, through a vigorous and sustained...

Emma Y. Hwang (born Yu-liang Hwang on July 21, 1970) is a scientist with Wyle Laboratories. She served as an aquanaut on the NASA Extreme Environment Mission...

Feminists have long struggled with Sigmund Freud's classical model of gender and identity development, which centers on the Oedipus complex. Freud's model...

Dr. Shirley Ann Jackson, FREng (born August 5, 1946) is an American physicist, and was the 18th president of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. She is the...