After some hard-fought victories, women’s rights are threatened again in many parts of the world. In the United States, the Supreme Court overturned women’s right to abortion in June 2022; women have ...

Women in ancient Greece are the subject of much interest to scholars and students of the ancient world. Not only did their status and freedoms change drastically throughout time, but so, too, did ...

Could Greek women leave the house? Could they drink wine? Did they fight in wars? Join Historian Honor Cargill-Martin as she ...

ATHENS (Reuters) - About a dozen Greek women violated a 1,000-year ban on the male-only monastic community of Mount Athos on Tuesday during a protest over disputed land, one of the demonstrators said ...

Lord of all she surveys: a sculpture of a woman in traditional costume in Olympos on the Greek island of Karpathos – Copyright AFP Louisa GOULIAMAKI “Here it is ...

We like to think we know what our ancient female forebears were like. Yet a spate of recent discoveries confirms the truth: that we really have no idea. Clues from ancient texts and archaeological ...

Yi So-yeon in the National Changgeuk Company of Korea's Trojan Women at BAM (all images courtesy BAM, photos by Maria Baranova) On the ashes of Troy, women of the defeated city await the victor’s ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Sughnen Yongo is a Midwest writer covering Black women, pop culture. Athena presides over the voting for the award of the arms of ...