Women photographers have taken some of the most memorable images of our time for National Geographic—from portraits of child brides in Yemen, India and elsewhere to a park ranger in Kenya bidding a tender goodbye to the last male northern white rhinoceros before the animal died.

The first time National Geographic published photographs by a woman was more than a century ago; Eliza Scidmore became a household name to readers in the early 1900s, producing 15 articles and some of the magazine’s earliest color photography, and was the first woman elected to the National Geographic Society’s board.

As Jodi Cobb, who photographed her first story for us in 1975, eloquently put it: “Every woman