So far, 61 women have run for governor in 2018, nearly doubling the record of female candidates set in 1994, according to the Center for American Women and Politics at Rutgers. Women have also set ...

Time away from the ice and a reignited passion helped the 19-year-old become the first U.S. woman to win the figure skating world championships since 2006.

Wilma Rudolph wins three Olympic gold medals (in the 100- and 200-meter events and the 4 x 100-meter relay) at the 1960 Summer Games, becoming the first American woman to win three golds at one ...

dubbing her “Sports Illustrated’s Joan of Arc” and joking that the paper’s male basketball reporter, Sam Goldaper, would not sue to enter a women’s locker room. “He really set in place ...