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York St John University provides funding as a member of The Conversation UK. It was May 4 1975. The Japanese Women’s Everest Expedition team had been living at a high altitude for six weeks, and were ...

The first woman officially ran the Boston Marathon in 1967, despite an official trying to stop her. Kathrine Switzer has dedicated her life to making running more accessible to women. She thinks ...

Christmas wouldn’t be Christmas without an exchange of gifts among my two grandmothers, mother, and aunt, featuring the trait they shared: all four were left-handed. Waiting for them under the tree in ...

This weekend, Jen Pawol will make history by becoming the first woman to umpire a Major League Baseball game. She's set to work the series between the Miami Marlins and Atlanta Braves. The 48-year-old ...

Tennessee is preparing to execute a woman for the first time in more than two centuries, after the state’s Supreme Court set the execution date for Christa Gail Pike, the only woman on Tennessee’s ...

The interactive female astronaut series was created to inspire a new generation of space explorers. In 2021, NASA released a fictional graphic novel about a pioneering astronaut who becomes the first ...

For the first time in Army history, a female service member completed the grueling Best Ranger Competition. First Lt. Gabrielle White, a 25-year-old West Point graduate, became the first female Ranger ...

Sarah Mullally has been named as the new Archbishop of Canterbury. She's the first woman ever chosen to lead the world's 85 million Anglicans. For the first time in its history, the Church of England ...

Overcoming male resistance as a voice for equality, she was the first woman to enter the New York City Marathon and the first official female winner of the Boston race. By Jeré Longman Nina Kuscsik, ...