This sparsely populated Wild West frontier effectively kick-started women's suffrage by granting women the right to vote before they could elsewhere in the US.

In 1972, pioneering feminist, journalist and activist Gloria Steinem – who turns 90 today – co-founded Ms Magazine

For the past 50 years, the co-founder of the world's largest independently owned guidebook publisher has been inspiring travellers to go off the beaten path.

A Cambodian chef is one of a few women looking to revive her culture's nearly forgotten Khmer recipes; her recent cookbook, Saoy, was named 'the best cookbook in the world'.

In one of her final interviews, the Supreme Court justice and women's rights pioneer predicted that US abortion rights could be revoked and warned the poorest would pay the price

In 1924, French-born Alexandra David-Neel became the first European woman to set foot in the Tibetan city of Lhasa. Now, 100 years on, her story is as relevant as ever

In exclusive archive BBC interviews, two activists look back at their turbulent time fighting for women's rights – from window-smashing and arson to hunger strikes and force feeding.

Despite more than a century and a half of speculation, these nude, faceless sculptures remain utterly enigmatic. Who made them? And what might they have been for?