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More to Little Women Than Meets the Eye

Five Facts about the Great Author Behind Little Women Louisa May Alcott, author of the iconic feminist novel Little Women would have been 184 years old when her birthday was celebrated with a Google Doodle on 29 November 2016. Little Women was one of the first popular novels that didn’t

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Annie Leibovitz – Advocating Powerful Women in her Art

Portraits of Influential Women Annie Leibovitz started making a list of women who have achieved greatness. Then the master photographic portrait artist started photographing these women, and incorporating the issues they address into her photographs. She photographed the Mexican human rights lawyer Andréa Medina Rosas, who was the first person

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Ada Lovelace Day

Celebrating Women in Science and Technology, Engineering and Maths Tuesday 11 October 2016 hailed the eighth annual Ada Lovelace Day. This day is an international celebration of the women who have made an impact on the world of science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM). Although it is still a relatively

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