Many fire departments are still grappling with adding their first female firefighters. Stephanie White offers thoughts on how ...

Hamden’s first female assistant fire chief is celebrating her one year anniversary. Shelly Carter made history last year when ...

Critics of Los Angeles Fire Chief Kristin Crowley — a gay woman leading an overwhelmingly male department — call her a “DEI ...

The city and Methuen's first female firefighter have agreed to a $225,000 settlement, putting an end to many years of legal ...

That's the accusation brought by a female firefighter named Catherine Erdman, who says she was denied her shot at joining the Madison Fire Department in 2014 due to sex discrimination baked into the ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) - Chante Coad became the first black female firefighter in the Columbia-Richland Fire Department in 1990. Twenty-five years later, after battling blazing fires, she’s the ...

By SCOTT JACKSON The Quincy Fire Department will soon welcome the first female firefighter in the department’s 136-year history. Cathryn Draicchio is set to transfer to the Quincy Fire Department from ...

This isn't to slight the contribution of female Los Angeles Fire Department personnel who are out there giving it their all in dangerous conditions, but to note that of all the phenomena that don't ...

A new study shows that PTSD and anxiety may negatively impact the reproductive health of women firefighters. The research, published in the Journal of Women’s Health, shows these mental health ...

Subscribe for FREE The paper “Evaluating the Effect of Depression, Anxiety, and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder on Anti-Müllerian Hormone Levels Among Women Firefighters,” was published in the Journal ...

Effective Jan. 21, former battalion lieutenant Tiffany Boehmer became the assistant fire chief and the first female in a ...