Chastity belts are a myth. There was no “once upon a time in medieval Europe…” when knights going out on crusades locked their wives up in belts of metal to keep them chaste .
The whole story was invented hundreds of years later to make medieval people seem backward. My...
Anni Albers was a trailblazing artist who created modernist masterpieces.
After finishing one of her best works she gave it to her mother. Her mum was very grateful and immediately draped it over the piano and plonked a vase of flowers on top of it.
You see, Anni Albers happened to be...
A woman on stage with a microphone is a woman who has already overcome many barriers to simply being there.
Then she has to deal with the technology….
This week the World Trade Organization appointed Nigerian economist Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala as its director-general. She is the first...