Track and field, golf, baseball…name a sport and Babe Didrikson Zaharias excelled at it. At the 1932 Olympics, she set records in the hurdles and javelin throw. She helped found the LPGA and ruled the sport. Baylor University's Dr. Karon LeCompte tell us why Babe should be remembered.

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Ever since she burst on the literary scene in 1968 with her first book of poetry, Black Feeling Black Talk, Nikki Giovanni has been writing in every genre and collecting honors. Fifty-three years later, she’s still writing, teaching and inspiring others.

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She was admired, criticized and vastly underestimated. and if it hadn't been for Nancy Reagan, Ronald Reagan might never have gained the White House--or held on to it. Karen Tumulty, author of The Triumph of Nancy Reagan, reveals the complex, determined woman behind the president.

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She was the first woman—and second person—to fly solo across the Atlantic. Beside setting numerous flying records, Earhart was also an unapologetic feminist, a style setter, and a savvy marketer of her own brand. Candace Fleming, author of Amelia Lost: The Life and Disappearance of Amelia Earhart, reveals just how groundbreaking she was. 

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Many a young scientist has been inspired by Marie Curie, renowned for her work with radium and radioactivity and the first person to win two Nobel Prizes. Biographer Susan Quinn tells how Curie overcame overt sexism and myriad other challenges.

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In early 2020, Dr. Charity Dean, the number 2 person in the California Department of Public Health, saw that a catastrophe was on its way. Learn why she's the heroine of Michael Lewis' new book about the pandemic, The Premonition.

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She practically invented undercover reporting with her expose of a women’s insane asylum. And that was just one of Bly’s pioneering feats, as we learn from writer Kim Todd, author of a new book on Bly and other “girl stunt reporters.”

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It’s science fair season, and the Society for Science runs the biggest science fairs around. The Society’s president and CEO, Maya Ajmera, is a former science fair contestant. She’s also the founder of the Global Fund for Children.

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When Ellen Ochoa was growing up, there were no women astronauts to model herself after. But her excellence in math and science got her a job at NASA, and eventually into space.

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For Mother's Day, we revisit Christy Turlington Burns, founder of the global nonprofit, Every Mother Counts. The former supermodel has dedicated the last 10 years to bringing down the shockingly high rate of maternal death—both in the US and around the world. Christy started Every Mother Counts after enduring dangerous complications following the birth of her own child.

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