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In 1947, the partition of India carved out a theoretically Muslim-majority territory out of the Indian state, sparking a bloody era of desperate migration as members of religious minorities in the new Indian and Pakistani nations left ancestral homes and sought safety within the boundaries of their co-religionists. That same year, a Muslim woman from northern India whose parents had recently passed away boarded a boat, seeking medical training in England, entirely unsure as t

When Dr. Mary Babcock first arrived in Montana in 1891 to take up her unprecedented position as company doctor to the gold miners there,...

In the mid 2000s, a small patch of ground in the middle of a country torn apart by the marauding violence of warring clans and religions...

One of the greatest revolutions of the Twentieth Century in the relief of the intense pains of childbirth came under the most unassuming...

America in the 1920s. The Jazz Age - flappers and motorcars, talkies and speak-easies - it is difficult to reflect on this time without...

The story of the women’s medical movement in India is, when told at all, generally centered upon its British founding figures - Ida...

Sex after menopause. Drug addiction. Abortion. In the early to mid-twentieth century, to be seen as casting an understanding eye on any...

Though we think of her as the Lady With the Lamp, tirelessly patrolling the sick wards of the Crimean War offering solace and healing to...

The years of the Second World War gifted to American feminism one of its most enduring icons in the form of Rosie the Riveter.  She was...

The lack of regulation in American industry during the early Twentieth Century is the stuff of horrific legend - from the grotesqueries...

Over the course of the last two decades, humanity has taken its first quiet steps from being the blind victims of genetic-molecular...

In 1849, Elizabeth Blackwell became the first woman to earn a medical degree in the United States; within half a century 7,000 American...

Clara Barton resided on this planet for nine decades, and spent roughly seven of those locked in institutional struggles that would have...

Telomerase is one of those enzymes which just won’t let you come to a settled opinion. When it runs wild, it promotes cancer. But it...

One of the exciting and daunting things about doing science in the Twenty-First century is the sheer number of competencies it demands. ...

The human body is a truly wonderful place to live, if you can fit in it. It's warm and protected and, because humans are such clever at...

Harriet Boyd Hawes was cursed from birth with an overabundance of Purpose. She was ever in search of a Problem to solve, and possessed...

I wish to say farewell to all those who thought of me as a friend, to all those who were kind to me, assuring them all that the deep...

Who (besides, obviously, bacteria) doesn't love penicillin? It's on everybody's shortlist of the most important things we've discovered...

There are few stories in the history of Women in Science with as much innate and compelling drama as that of the Edinburgh Seven, which...