Isabella Baumfree was born into slavery in late 18th century New York. After fleeing bondage, she renamed herself Sojourner Truth and embarked on a legendary speaking tour.
During America’s space race in the 1950s and 60s, mathematicians performed calculations that determined the geometry for space orbit. Women “computers” were integral members of NASA’s teams. Learn the mathematical concepts behind space orbit and the women who sent America’s astronauts into space.
At the age of 21, Simone de Beauvoir became the youngest person to take the philosophy exams at France's most esteemed university. But as soon as she mastered the rules of philosophy, she wanted to break them.
On March 3, 1913, after months of strategic planning and controversy, thousands of women gathered in Washington D.C. for the Women's Suffrage Parade -- the first mass protest for a woman's right to vote.
Two women search for friends and colleagues who fought for equal rights. One of the first female commercial pilots wants to thank her mentor, and an advocate hopes to find the woman who inspired her to join a movement.
This documentary series explores how, from the highest echelons of society, to the lowest rungs of the global ladder, a quiet revolution has been taking place.
A conversation with activist and author Gloria Steinem about the revolutionary roots of the feminist movement, the fundamental need for intersectionality to combat prejudice, and how she overcame her fears with the support of friends. Now she urges future generations of women to advocate for each other in solidarity -- and discover the freedom found in companionship and community.
Saville, a contemporary British painter, often uses large-scale paintings of nude women with all their marks and blemishes in order to challenge historical and even current depictions of the female body
Profiles a contemporary American artist who uses a wide variety of mediums to lead viewers on a journey to examine the past as well as examine current racial and gender stereotypes
an in-depth look at the creation of Kara Walker's monumental public project, "A Subtlety, or the Marvelous Sugar Baby," a colossal sugar-coated sphinx, as well as a series of life-sized, sugar and resin boy figurines.
In a talk that started a worldwide conversation about feminism, writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie asks that we begin to dream about and plan for a different, fairer world -- of happier men and women who are truer to themselves.
