Until 2013, women were not allowed to serve in ground combat units, but due to the necessity for women in these units, the military...

Lozen was a female warrior of the Chiricahua Apaches (known also as the Members or Warm Springs Apache) who lived during the 19th...

DNA finally proves that female Viking warriors, like Lagertha, existed. In the 1880s, a massive gravesite was found in the Swedish town...

Vilified by her English adversaries as ‘a woman who hath imprudently passed the part of womanhood’, Grace O’Malley was ignored by...

Meet Dr. Mary Walker, a former POW, spy, and the only female awarded the Medal of Honor. When the Civil War broke out, she attempted to...

By Athena Ives Odette Samson Hallowes (1912-1995) was a courageous agent for the United Kingdom’s Clandestine Special Operations...

By Athena Ives In June 1941, Hitler launched Operation Barbarossa and the Red Army was struggling. Women were banned from serving in...

Sgt. Leigh Ann Hester of the 617th Military Police Company, a National Guard unit out of Richmond, Ky., received the Silver Star, along...

I've seen a lot of people post about the new Mulan movie. I am excited to see it. Even though historians aren't sure if she was real or...

This months current female Warrior is the empowering Abbie Johnson. Abbie served in the Navy from 2012 to 2016 and was a musician in the...

Queen Artemisia, I of Halicarnassus lived from C. 520–460 BCE. She ruled over the city of Halicarnassus during the Persian Wars against...

“Laree ‘Cali’ Callihan belongs to an elite class of warriors driven by love that live by loyalty and are humbly fueled by a constant...

“While in the act of reaching a cartridge and having one of her feet as far before the other as she could step, a cannon shot from the...