Women You Should Know® is an editorial site and community all about dynamic women.

Support WomenYSK Now!

Octopuses at Work and Play: Dr. Jennifer Mather and Cephalopod Cognition

Dale DeBakcsyNovember 14, 2018

Real Talk With Astronaut Abby: How Women Deal With Their Periods In Space

wyskNovember 12, 2018

LATEST WYSK STORIES

Meet Susie Coston, An Extraordinary Human Who Gives Sanctuary And Love To Rescued Farm Animals

wyskNovember 8, 2018

"They’re just like people - every one of them has a past when they come in. Most of them come from a place of loss, like a big place of loss. Once they’re here ...

AgricultureConsumptionGood CausesInspiration0 Comments1 min read

“Maria by Callas”… New Documentary On The Legendary Opera Singer Told Her Own Words

wyskNovember 8, 2018

Time magazine called her "a woman for whom the term prima donna could have been invented" and the "undisputed queen of the world’s opera". This weekend, the lif...

DocumentaryEntertainmentHistoryMusicUncategorizedVideo0 Comments2 min read

No Folding Chair Required… How Women You Should Know Offers Us All A Seat At The Table

Guest ContributorNovember 8, 2018

By Marie Gardiner - Being a woman in business, being a woman doing something ‘different,’ or heck, sometimes just being a woman, can be a step off a high ledge ...

EmpowermentInspirationMediaSocial MediaWomanhoodYour Stories0 Comments3 min read

Women Killing It: Brittany Edwards And Khiana Lowe, Champions Of Diversity In Male-Dominated Sneaker, Tech Industries

Sally HubbardNovember 7, 2018

"There’s so much value in letting people help you. It's okay. Don't be afraid to talk about your idea. Don't be afraid to try…" – Khiana Lowe In this episode...

CareerWomen Killing It0 Comments3 min read

Lady Mary Montagu and Europe’s First Tool Against Smallpox

Dale DeBakcsyNovember 7, 2018

In the Seventeenth Century, smallpox ravaged Europe with a persistent ferocity beyond reckoning. At its height, it killed 400,000 Europeans a year, in a manner...

HistoryWomen in Science0 Comments10 min read

Aretha Franklin Documentary Filmed 46 Years Ago, Is Finally Getting Released

wyskNovember 6, 2018

In the early 70s, director Sydney Pollack documented Aretha Franklin and the making of a live album at the New Temple Missionary Church in Los Angeles, CA. The ...

DocumentaryEntertainmentMusic0 Comments1 min read

Laces You Should Know… 5 Styles Designed To Define And Inspire, Meant To (em)POWER

wyskNovember 5, 2018

As proud champions of women’s and girls’ empowerment since 2011, we really wanted a product collection that could take our Women You Should Know mission to the ...

DesignEmpowermentFashionFeminismProductsWYSK0 Comments6 min read

I Am Relieved That I Will Never Be A Grandmother

Guest ContributorNovember 3, 2018

By Lori Day - I am the mother of a 26-year-old daughter, my only child. As one of the early IVF pioneers of the late 80’s and early 90’s, I went through many ye...

MotherhoodWomanhoodYour Stories1 Comment5 min read

The 100 Black Females Project: Shayla Hunter Turns Academic Assignment Into Empowering Platform

wyskNovember 2, 2018

In April 2018, Shayla Hunter was required to complete a 100 Day Project as part of her graduate degree from the School of Visual Arts. She needed to create some...

ArtEmpowermentInspirationSocial MediaWomanhood0 Comments4 min read

Girls

Shred Like A Girl… 16-Year-Old Guitar Player Shows Us How It’s Done

wyskJanuary 9, 2015

Meet 16-year-old Mel... she's into blogging, writing, art, and playing guitar like a badass....

ArtGirlsMusic7 Comments0 min read

Proud Dad Of Two Geek Girls Talks Superheroes, Disney Princesses, And Barbie

Guest ContributorOctober 17, 2013

You're going to want to read what John Marcotte, the “First Male Contributor To Women You Should Know”, has to say about it all....

BarbieDisneyEntertainmentGirlsSelf Improvement41 Comments6 min read

Halloween Costume Idea: “Let them be who THEY want to be.”

Guest ContributorOctober 14, 2014

Hats off to Kathryn Wilkins for illustrating this simple, but important message so elegantly and beautifully....

ArtComicsGirlsHoliday0 Comments0 min read

Entertainment

There Is No Woman In This Picture

wyskJanuary 22, 2015

We love a good optical illusion, and this is a great one......

ArtOff Beat2 Comments0 min read

How Becoming A Parent Made Me Claim My Feminism

Guest ContributorJune 21, 2018

By Suzanne Hemming - I gave birth to my daughter in 2013 and it was as if my eyes suddenly opened and for the first time I saw the world we ...

BooksFeminismGirls0 Comments6 min read

Life Ever After… Days In The Lives Of Elderly Women

wyskMay 12, 2015

"Even with all the rush and fast pace of New York City, many elderly women manage to keep up with their lives in their own rhythm and grace."...

ArtDocumentaryWomanhood0 Comments5 min read

Women In Science

Space Biomedical Engineer Mamta Patel Nagaraja, the Woman Behind [email protected]

Dale DeBakcsyMarch 1, 2017

Women in Science Wednesday introduces us to biomedical engineer Dr. Mamta Patel Nagaraja. You might know her as the head of [email protected]...

Women in Science1 Comment8 min read

The Nuclear Spectroscopy Of Women In Science Advocate Fay Ajzenberg-Selove

Dale DeBakcsyFebruary 13, 2017

She was the nerve center for the entire world’s efforts in quantifying and understand the behavior of the light elements, and she would remain so for the next thirty-eight years....

Women in Science0 Comments0 min read

Lynn Conway and the VLSI Revolution in Microchip Design

Dale DeBakcsyOctober 10, 2018

Last week my stepfather, a retired electrical engineer, passed away at the age of 89, and in the boxes and boxes of papers he had kept as th...

STEMTrailblazersWomen in Science0 Comments15 min read