White Western women have lower body appreciation and experience greater pressure from the media to be thin compared to Black Nigerian and Chinese women across all ages, according to new research. The ...

The five artists featured in the exhibition—Evelyn Cameron, Fra Dana, Josephine Hale, Elisabeth Lochrie and Lora Webb Nichols—witnessed the rapid transformation of women’s roles in Western American ...

White women are less confident about their bodies than women from other cultures, according to a new study. Researchers found Western women also experience greater media pressure to be thin than black ...

This photograph of Dorothy Morrell on “Skuball” taken in 1920 is among images in the “Western Women: What Makes a Cowgirl?” exhibition now on display at UW’s American Heritage Center. The photo is ...

There was something puzzling about the young Western women staying at the youth hostels in Seoul, thought researcher Min Joo Lee. Unlike their Asian counterparts, who she saw squeezing in as many ...

Born Sept. 2, 1877, in the railroad town of Wells, Nevada, Mary Louise (Louisa) Wade was 2 years old when her family relocated to Mancos Valley, Colorado. On March 17, 1896, 18-year-old Louisa married ...

In 1932, lanky, lantern-jawed Mildred (“Babe”) Didrikson, then famed only as a basketball player, proved at the Olympic Games that she was the world’s best woman track athlete. In 1934, she learned ...

Her birth name has been forgotten; she is only known as Mrs. Andrew Stanley. As obscure as she remains, she left a legacy of a bold, courageous woman who was determined to survive enormous odds in her ...