When the Revenge was attacked by the King of Jamaica in 1720, Anne and Mary fought the forces off almost single handedly, since their fellow male pirates were too drunk to fight. Active in the early 1500s, Sayyida controlled the western side of the Mediterranean sea, while the infamous dread pirate Barbossa controlled the eastern side. Though motherhood and piracy aren't typically associated with each other, 16th century Irish pirate Grace O'Malley was an exception.

The article focuses on the woman suffrage movement in the United States which did not begin with one inciting incident. Topics include considered that the notion that gender should determine access to political rights had been challenged, if not widely debated, since the nation's founding; and reports that after the American Revolution, a select group of women exercised the right to vote, as a loophole allowed all property owners in New Jersey to cast ballots.

The article discusses the push for the proposed Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) to the U.S. Constitution for equal legal rights for citizens regardless of sex, and removal of gender distinctions in terms of divorce, property, and employment as of 2020. Topics covered include the ERA's historical background, and differing views that regard women's place in society as fixed by God and Nature. Also noted is the hindrance of ERA support by divisions within the women's movement.

The article looks at the status of women in China, as of 2013. The author notes that improving the status of women and altering traditional gender relations was a tenet of the Chinese government under former leader Mao Zedong, and cites the Chinese Marriage Law of 1950, which provided for property rights for married women. She says a recent Chinese Supreme Court decision partially reversed the law, making it difficult for women to retain property when they divorce. She cites the country's high rate of domestic violence and describes a publicity campaign co-sponsored by the government pressuring women to get married in their 20s and characterizing unmarried women negatively as leftover women.

This article discusses the history writing of the early liberal women’s movement in Sweden, in the Fredrika Bremer Association’s journals such asTidskrift för hemmetandDagny.Prominent members of the movement sought to create a new history, by women and for women, and to create a pantheon of foremothers and examples for the modern woman. Medieval women were particularly favoured as they could be described in ways that harmonized well with the overall objectives of the liberal women’s movement and with the self-images of these early feminists. Thus, individuals such as Saint Birgitta and Queen Philippa were given heroine’s portraits and presented as carriers of ideal characteristics. This was a means of positioning themselves and of proving that women were fit to rule and to take active part in political and social life.

Women's History Month unintentionally reinforces the prevailing idea that when women do something, it is called "women's history," and when men do something it is called "history." Women's History Month also allows state school boards and curricular committees to feel as though they are including women without doing enough to update textbooks and state standards, ultimately undermining the very goals that reformers and historians aimed to achieve with the designation.

States that 1998 marks the 150th anniversary of the women's rights movement. Mention of `A Woman's Book of Days,' by Beverly Wettenstein; Sampling of women pioneers and their legacy; Mary Pickford and Demi Moore; Geraldyn Cobb and Shannon Lucid; Others.

The newly minted #Time'sUp movement and organization was created by women of privilege seeking to extend the accountability of the #MeToo movement beyond the concerns of individuals and especially white affluent women to other women, those who work in gritty jobs where sexism is equally rampant. Time's Up is committing money and organizing capacity to empower blue-collar and often disempowered women, who are frequently women of color. It proposes to make legal recourse an option for many women who wouldn't have had it, to strengthen and advertise remedies that already exist.