Author: Influential Women Staff

10 of the Most Notable Female Astronauts

In recent years, women have been protagonists in commercial space flights, deployed as commanders, crew members, and researchers on private space missions for purposes that range from scientific experiments to filming movie scenes. But the very first woman to travel into space was Soviet Cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova, on June 16,

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The History of Pink-Collar Jobs

Pink-collar job is a term coined in the 1970s to indicate a job that is traditionally done by a woman. However, gender barriers have weakened and the distinction between so-called typically male and typically female roles is less defined today than it used to be. Nowadays, many occupations that were

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10 Black Female Artists The World Should Celebrate

Black female artists have been ignored and silenced for centuries as inequalities and injustices prevail.  When you think about Black artists, does Jean-Michel Basquiat come to mind? Art lovers worldwide know and love Basquiat, and rightly so. You may even know of the portrait artist and former slave Prince Demah

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