AvatarTIMEAvatarAvatar100 Women of the YearTIMEFrom Amelia Earhart to Michelle Obama, meet 100 women who defined the last century
AvatarTIMEAvatarAvatarWhy TIME Revisited 100 Women Who Made HistoryTIME - Nancy GibbsThroughout its history, editors of TIME aimed their curiosity at those who broke free of gravity. Week after week, year after year, the magazine featured an individual on the cover, often from Washington but also from Wall Street or Hollywood, from foreign palaces and humming factories, all …
AvatarTIMEAvatarAvatarWe Designed 100 New Covers For TIME's Women of The Year Project. Here Are the Stories Behind ThemTIME - D.W. PineTo mark the role of the 100 Women of the Year in history, we embarked on something historic of our own: creating a TIME cover to recognize each of them. From charcoal portraits to a three-dimensional paper sculpture, from photo collages to fine-art paintings, from wooden sculptures to a quilted …
AvatarTIMEAvatarAvatarBehind the Scenes of TIME's 100 Women of the Year IssueTIME - Kelly ConniffJudith Heumann knew what it meant to be seen. In 1977, after regulations for the first federal disability-rights law stalled, Heumann, an activist and wheelchair user, organized a sit-in, crowding more than 100 disabled protesters into a San Francisco federal building. “We demonstrated to the …
AvatarTIMEAvatarAvatar50 Years Ago, Gloria Steinem Wrote an Essay For TIME About Her Hopes For Women’s Futures. Here’s What She'd Add TodayTIME - Gloria SteinemIn the half-century since I wrote the essay below, as part of a cover story on “The Politics of Sex,” there has been some definite progress. “Women’s issues” are no longer in a silo but are understood as fundamental to everything. For instance, the single biggest determinant of whether a country is …
AvatarTIMEAvatarAvatarWhat Does It Mean to Be a Woman?TIME - Susan StrykerAn “adult human female,” according to a seemingly common-sense slogan seen on the T-shirts and laptop stickers of those who oppose the idea that transgender women are women. They argue that gender itself is a false ideology masking the truth of biological sex difference. But “woman” is complicated …
AvatarTIMEAvatarAvatarWhy Women's History Should Be Everyone's HistoryTIME - Alma Har'elEach generation inherits a history, focused through the lens of those who came before it—but time tends to reveal a greater depth of field. In the words of Edith P. Mayo, a curator emeritus at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History, “When you’re invisible, people assume that you’ve …
AvatarTIMEAvatarAvatarThe Suffragists: 100 Women of the YearTIMEIt was the culmination of generations of activism, and Carrie Chapman Catt, who had devoted three decades to the suffrage struggle, was among the crowds that celebrated the ratification of the 19th Amendment in 1920. “Women have suffered agony of soul which you never can comprehend, that you and …
AvatarTIMEAvatarAvatarEmmy Noether: 100 Women of the YearTIME“Smart” didn’t do Emmy Noether justice: Albert Einstein called her a “creative mathematical genius.” The German-born Noether altered algebra—notably with her 1921 paper Theory of Ideals in Ring Domains—and her proofs about conservation of energy resolved a quirk in Einstein’s general theory of …
AvatarTIMEAvatarAvatarXiang Jingyu: 100 Women of the YearTIMEXiang Jingyu rejected traditional gender roles, instead committing herself to the cause of the Chinese Communist Party. Some records suggest Xiang became the first director of the Chinese Communist Women’s Bureau in 1922, as well as the first female member of the CCP Central Committee, though …
AvatarTIMEAvatarAvatarBessie Smith: 100 Women of the YearTIMEBessie Smith was born into tragedy. Her parents died by the time she was 9, leaving her in the care of older siblings. A gifted singer, Smith was forever changed—perhaps even saved—by her rare talent on the stage and insatiable drive off it. Years of busking and performing in traveling vaudeville …
AvatarTIMEAvatarAvatarCoco Chanel: 100 Women of the YearTIMEGabrielle “Coco” Chanel, born in 1883, lived several lives before her death in 1971. She was the shrewd businesswoman who developed one of the world’s most famous perfumes, only to lose control of the company that produced it. She presaged the era of logomania with her own symbol, two linked C’s. …