As National Nurses Week comes to a close, we also mark the 200th birthday of social reformer and statistician Florence Nightingale (1820-1910), the founder of modern nursing. Born to wealthy and well-connected British parents in the Italian city whose name she bore, Nightingale came to prominence while serving as a manager and trainer of nurses […]

Feminists for Life honors the life of Dr. Mildred Fay Jefferson, an accomplished surgeon and professor of surgery, as well as a tireless advocate for women and children, who died seven years ago today at the age of 84. Feminists for Life named Dr. Jefferson a Remarkable Pro-Life Woman® in 2003. Among her many achievements,

Maud Nathan was born on October 20, 1862 into a distinguished Sephardic Jewish New York City family. Her relatives included cousins Benjamin Cardozo, the U.S. Supreme Court justice, and Emma Lazarus, the poet best known for “The New Colossus,” which adorns the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty. She was also a member of the

Julia Ward Howe (1819-1910) famously wrote the lyric, “The Battle Hymn of the Republic,” after meeting Abraham Lincoln in 1861. The well- educated daughter of a prosperous banker, Howe grew up among luminaries like Charles Dickens and Margaret Fuller, but her life was punctuated by painful losses, including that of her mother when Howe was