We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. In 1897, Cambridge students lined the streets to protest a vote that would grant women the right to earn a degree at their prestigious ...

Kira Johnson (right) helps volunteer Madeline Buhman (center) work on a tire during Women's Night. (Savannah Hopkinson) BYU senior Kira Johnson always loved to bike, but she didn’t begin to understand ...

To men, the bicycle in the beginning was merely a new toy, another machine added to the long list of devices they knew in their work and play. Your support powers solutions-focused climate reporting — ...

(Mental Floss)-- Susan B. Anthony once said, "Let me tell you what I think of bicycling. I think it has done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world." A woman on a bicycle, the equal ...

To celebrate International Women's Day, Transport for London names 10 of its bikes.

The bicycle, when it was still new technology, went through a series of rapid iterations in the 19th century before it really went mainstream. Designers toyed with different-sized front and back ...

Sue Macy‘s elaborately illustrated 2011 book, Wheels of Change: How Women Rode the Bicycle to Freedom (With a Few Flat Tires Along the Way), describes the surprising role that the bicycle played in ...

Female-specific cycling shorts can play a huge part in ensuring you stay comfortable in the saddle.

To men, the bicycle in the beginning was merely a new toy, another machine added to the long list of devices they knew in their work and play. To women, it was a steed upon which they rode into a new ...