The Most Inspiring Women of 2018, According to Us
Jezebel’s annual list of Best Women is always invigorating for us to put together. But 2018 had a special tenor to it,…
From Escaped Llamas to Carrie Fisher to @fart: A List of 2015's Most Relatable Heroines
If you can trust the internet to reliably do anything, you can trust it to tell you that some bullshit is inspiring…
Nobody Remembers the Female Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle
In today's "huh?" news, it seems that the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles gang once included a lady turtle.
A New Female Superhero Movie Is Finally Happening (About Damn Time)
It's been nine years since Jennifer Garner starred in Elektra and ten years since Halle Berry starred in Catwoman,…
Badass Women WWII Pilots To Be Honored With Rose Bowl Float
When Dorothy "Dot" Lewis, a former Women's Airforce Service Pilot in World War II, passed away this September, her son…
Natalie Portman: Feminist Movies Don't Necessarily Have Kickass Women
For a while, we saw a smattering of movies — Hanna, Hunger Games, Sucker Punch, Salt, Dragon Tattoo, Wanted — in which…
In Her First Video Statement, Malala Yousufzai Vows to Keep Fighting
Malala Yousufzai, the 15-year-old girl who just a few days ago had a titanium plate put in her skull as a result of…
The Women Who Programmed The First All-Electronic Digital Computer
Odds are you haven't heard of Jean Jennings Bartik, who died recently at age 86.
New York's First Female Cab Driver Is Awesome
Where is the movie about ninety-six year-old Gertrude Hadley Jeanette? Not only was she New York City's first female…
The Impressive(ly Young) Woman Behind Arsenic Aliens Discovery
You probably heard that NASA announced a groundbreaking discovery that expands the definition of life as we know it.…
Meet Your Subway Badass, Nicola Briggs
Nicola Briggs, subway heroine, now says it's about "taking away the shame, from you, as a woman being violated - and…
Today On Twitter: Live Coverage Of Steinem, Faludi, And More
Public service announcement: I'll be live-tweeting a Radcliffe panel, "Feminism Then and Now" with Susan Faludi and Nell…
Judy Blume Talks Forever, Purple Fashions
"My fourteen-year-old daughter said, 'Couldn't there be a book about two nice kids who do it and nobody has to die?" Ju…
Kicking Ass, Taking Names: The Magnificence That Is Pam Grier
There's a lot more to Pam Grier than stories of cocaine vaginas. As an interview with the Times today confirms, Grier's…
Overcoming The Belief That "A Boy Is Worth 15 Girls At Least"
"Because of [your books] I wanted to marry not a slave, but a free woman," one Cairo man told Nawal El Saadawi, 79.…
Gabby Sidibe: Calls Her Dress The "Money Shot," Wants To Work With Tina Fey
Gabby Sidibe's as quotable as ever. "If fashion was porn, this dress would be the money shot," she says. Plus, she…
Louise Slaughter: New Favorite Congresswoman
Yesterday's health care summit may have featured only four women, but one of them, Representative Louise Slaughter,…
On Girls Who Loved Reading Anne Frank's Diary
"As the girls who loved Anne Frank grew up, they became women who loved Miep Gies, and who hoped that they would do…
Miep Gies, 1909-2010
"[You don't have to] be a hero to do your human duty. I am afraid nobody would ever help other people, because who is a…
Eve Ensler: "Until The Violence Stops"
"But violence against women determines much about who we are as a society...My goal is to keep fighting violence…