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In July 1976, female cadets were admitted to the US Military Academy for the first time.
In October 1975, 90% of all women in Iceland took part in a massive nationwide protest
The remarkable story of Maryam Mursal, one of the superstars of 1970s Somali music .
In May 1974, Italians defied the Catholic Church and voted overwhelmingly for divorce.
It wasn't until 1974 that American Vogue put a black model on its cover for the first time
Jacqueline Du Pre makes one of the most famous classical recordings of the 20th Century
Modern British feminism began in 1970 when 500 women met for a debate in Oxford
What happened when thousands of women went on strike in New York City in 1970?
In the late 1960s a young black American woman rolled up in 'Swinging' London.
Photographer Dickey Chapelle was the first woman war reporter to be killed in Vietnam
The strike at Ford's car factory Dagenham led to equal pay legislation in the UK
The daughter of the Soviet dictator, Svetlana defected to the West in 1967
How Kathrine Switzer became the first woman to run the Boston Marathon in 1967
The larger than life vaudeville star - Sophie Tucker - died on February 9th 1966.
The British popstar Dusty Springfield went on tour in apartheid South Africa in 1964
Betty Friedan's book kickstarted the modern women's movement.
In June 1963 Soviet Cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova went into orbit.
In 1962 Timmie Jean Lindsey became the first woman in the world to have the operation.
The disappearance of the remains in 1955 of Evita Peron, the revered Argentine first lady
Two Maids of Honour remember the crowning of Queen Elizabeth the Second in London in 1953.
The scientist produced an x-ray photograph in 1951 that helped show the structure of DNA
The life of the legendary French singer remembered by her friends and lovers
Cells taken from an African American woman in 1951 revolutionised medical science
In 1949 Iva Toguri was falsely accused of making Japanese propaganda during World War Two
