including World War II and the Korean War, women faced military obstacles and professional bias. Reporter-novelist Martha Gellhorn famously stowed away on a hospital ship to cover the WWII D-Day ...

To celebrate the profession in true style, we've also included a clip from Kate Adie, arguably the most famous female war reporter, and her historic broadcast from Tiananmen Square protests in ...

The caption read: "1944, Marcelle Poirier, from AFP, first French female war correspondent." “There were two or three lines in the book saying that she was with de Gaulle when he entered Paris ...

American women served World War II by the thousands — about 75,000 in medical fields, 350,000 like Louiva Webb joined the US ...

When Elsie Inglis asked the War Office if female doctors and surgeons could serve in front-line hospitals in World War One she was told 'my good lady, go home and sit still'. Elsie, a pioneering ...

She was one of the first female reporters from her city ... Violence against women in S Africa 'like a war' Perceptions of women in media in Somalia are changing, but there are still a lot ...