Self-Rescuing Princess Society

During World War II, like the other branches of the military, the US Army started a program to recruit women into non-combat positions to ...

Betty Gillies (January 7, 1908 – October 14, 1998) was a pioneering American aviatrix who worked to promote the role of women in aviation,...

Ola Mildred "Millie" Rexroat (August 28, 1917 – June 28, 2017) was born in Argonia, Kansas, in 1917. Her father was a white ma...

In 1932, Hazel Ying Lee (August 24, 1912 – November 25, 1944) became one of the first Chinese-American women to earn a pilot's lic...

The mission of the Self-Rescuing Princess Society is, as I'm sure you have already figured out, to share stories of women and girls wh...

Leona Woods (August 9, 1919 – November 10, 1986) is best known as the only female physicists on the team that built the world's first...

Irena Iłłakowicz (July 26, 1906 – October 4, 1943) was a Polish intelligence agent during World War II. Her parents were living in Berl...

It's all well and good to punch Nazis, but Lyudmila Pavlichenko (July 12, 1916 – October 10, 1974) did more than that. She shot Nazis....

When I think of photojournalism the person who comes to mind is Margaret Bourke-White (June 14, 1904 – August 27, 1971), the first female ...

Most people are familiar with the photos of Josephine Baker (June 3, 1906 – April 12, 1975) in one of her iconic dance costumes, but how...

SRPS Women in STEM: Astrid Løken (April 14, 1911 – January, 19 2008) Most of the people who worked with Astrid Løken never suspected sh...

I've been thinking a lot lately about individual stories that make up historic events. When we learn about these large uprisings o...

Earlier this week I read this short blurb about a woman I'd never heard of before: January 5, 1893 (1980) – Sigrid Schultz, war co...

Today is the 100th anniversary of the birth of Yekaterina "Katya" Budanova, one of the remarkable Soviet female fighter aces f...