Women In The Workforce
State Department honors Elizabeth ‘Lizzie’ Slater as first Hero of U.S....
Meet Elizabeth "Lizzie" Slater, a foreign service specialist who embodies the ethos of diplomacy through her tenacity and teamwork.
Ivanka Trump, State’s Sullivan boost women in business
The Academy for Women Entrepreneurs in Colombia is part of a White House initiative that aims to help women around the world reach their economic potential.
Meet Kelly Craft, new U.N. ambassador
The Kentucky native brings diplomatic, business and philanthropic experience to a critical and high-profile State Department post.
Investing in women builds countries
The U.S. is launching 14 projects in 22 countries to help women develop job skills and become entrepreneurs. Investing in women pays big dividends.
U.S. mathematician is first woman to win ‘math’s Nobel’
Meet Karen Uhlenbeck, a U.S. professor whose work has led to some of the most dramatic advances in mathematics in 40 years.
A nanoscientist bonds with women in Africa over STEM
An American scientist has traveled to Egypt and Kenya to champion science to women and girls and hosted female scientists from South Africa and Tunisia.
Her improbable dream led to NASA
Learn how watching American astronaut Neil Armstrong's 1969 landing on the moon inspired a 7-year-old Costa Rican girl to pursue a career at NASA.
Before and after 1979: Women’s rights in Iran
While women around the world have been breaking barriers for decades, Iranian women have struggled to gain back the basic human freedoms they lost in 1979.
NASA schedules its first women-only spacewalk
Meet the two female astronauts who will make history March 29. They will leave the International Space Station for a seven-hour spacewalk.