Women In The Workforce

Meet Karen Uhlenbeck, a U.S. professor whose work has led to some of the most dramatic advances in mathematics in 40 years.

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.

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.

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.

Meet the two female astronauts who will make history March 29. They will leave the International Space Station for a seven-hour spacewalk.

Watch this video to learn about influential women in Iranian history and see how conditions have changed for women in Iran since the 1979 revolution.

USAID is working in nine countries to increase the number of women in the energy sector,  especially in higher-paying technical and leadership positions.

Actors and filmmakers from Poland to Taiwan have contributed to the world's first and most profitable film industry, centered in Hollywood, California.

In four graphics, we take a look at the 116th Congress, including the historic number of women, as well as a bit about their backgrounds.