by Pamela M. Henson (reprinted with permission) With a hint of spring finally in the air, my thoughts turn to the sights, sounds and...

Homebound during the pandemic, I've been thinking a lot about Ava Hamilton Singer, an early member of the Society of Woman Geographers....

Else Bostlemann was an early member of the Society of Woman Geographers who enjoyed a fascinating job. Trained as an artist, she worked...

Looking for adventure or a new heroine to love? Here's some recommended reading! Here's some films by or about early members of the...

For National Kick Butt Day, I have prepared blog articles on ten women who were members of the Society of Woman Geographers: Amelia...

Blair Niles was a courageous writer who helped millions of readers understand the the injustices faced by marginalized people.

Gloria Hollister was the first woman to dive below the ocean in a bathysphere.

“They said no female outfit such as ours could go alone to paint headhunters and come back with their own heads. No man had done it.”

“My brain left all of me that was feminine, and, with a man-size stride I set out, bound to prove I belonged there as much as the men."

She had come a long way from the romantic college student who thought that the museum purchased its antiquities in a store.

He tried the drug on his secretary before giving it to his cow. It shows the relative value placed on women and cattle in Texas.

Politicians don’t seem to have any brains, or at least of they have them, they do not use them

Explorer Mickie Akeley was afraid of two things: lions and elevators.

Who doesn’t love a woman with a snake? Do you admire women who seize the chance to do what few people have done? To count down the days...

“Everyone has oceans to fly, if they have the heart to do it. It is reckless, maybe. But what do dreams know of boundaries?”

The Society asked explorer Roy Andrews, president of the Explorers Club, to explain his comment that "Women are not adapted to exploration."

I do not know whether the human race is going to survive much longer, and I sometimes wonder if we deserve to. But Alaska must be preserved.

Can a woman get as much publicity for her accomplishments as her appearance?

After years of sharpening the brush tips with their lips and using the paint as makeup, the women wondered if the radium was poisoning them.

“Of course the picketing was embarrassing. We meant it to be. This was no time for manners.”