In the 1860s, American women bent over frontward to remain fashionably relevant.

This week on the podcast, we covered the fascinating — and mostly crotchless — history of women’s underwear and chatted with Julie Sygiel, founder and CEO of the innovative underwear startup Dear Kate. And as Dear Kate specializes in making…

Her name is Chien-Shiung Wu, but you can call her by one of her nuclear nicknames: First Lady of Physics, Queen of Nuclear Research, or The Chinese Marie Curie.

On January 19, 1946, Dolly Parton was born in Locust Ridge, TN, and at age seven, little Dolly made herself a guitar and started strumming. Behind the big hair, big breasts and big country glitz, Dolly Parton has achieved one…

This week on the podcast, Caroline and I devoted both episodes to the history of (mostly) American women in comics and cartoons. Meanwhile, outside the Stuff Mom Never Told You studio, Paris has been mourning the terrorist attacks that took…

Fifty women in comics you should know, including cartoonists, illustrators, comic book artists, web comic creators and all-around visual geniuses. Lovingly crowdsourced by Stuff Mom Never Told You fans. In alphabetical order.

After doing our two-part series (here and here) about lady detectives on TV, one thing was abundantly clear: Y’all love some lady crimesolvers. While the episodes were busting at the seams with Cagney and Lacey, Olivia Benson, Jessica Fletcher and…

In 1869, a strange fashion trend was afoot among the hippest London ladies. With the assistance of canes and mismatched shoes or specialty pairs with different heel heights, they affected what was called the Alexandra Limp. “A monstrosity has made…

In her brief life, pharmaceutical chemist Alice Augusta Bell achieved multiple firsts and saved lives with her breakthrough research.

On January 7, 1891, acclaimed author, folklorist and anthropologist Zora Neale Hurston was born. Best known as a leader of the Harlem Renaissance and her 1937 novel "Their Eyes Were Watching God," the woman behind the writing is as fascinatingly…