Like a lot of girls who grew up in the 1990s—2000s, I was obsessed with the Royal Diaries books, a series with gold pages and ribbon bookmarks that introduced infamous royal women through a fictional ...

Alice Jarcho had no interest in bulls and bears or puts and calls—no knowledge of them either—when, in the late 1960s, she began working as a receptionist at Hirsch & Co., a small Wall Street ...

She-Wolves-- I recall how during the last century women aspired to positions higher than personal secretaries and were called "pushy" and "unwomanly." For men to claw their way up was, of course, ...

A modern fairy tale salvaging famous women from the plays of Shakespeare, THE SHE-WOLVES will play as part of THE FEMME COLLECTIVE four-week residency at The Theater at the 14th St Y (344 East 14th St ...

‘Marvellously dramatic dancer’ (New York Times) Laura Careless tells the stories of the forgotten female rulers of England who set the stage for Elizabeth I. Based on Helen Castor’s book/BBC series, ...

She Wolves brought Castor’s book She-Wolves: The Women Who Ruled England Before Elizabeth to television. The programme’s sensational title was a given. With an audience beyond the niches of either a ...

Historian Paulina Bren shares stories about the ladies who fought their way into New York City’s finance world when Wall Street was a boys-only club, and the uphill, ongoing battle of women to break ...