From asking for more pay rises to worrying less (and leaving your eyebrows alone), it seems we Brits are full of later-life wisdom. Emma Parsons-Reid, 57, wishes she had never started smoking.

Pearl Young joined the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics in 1922, ... Despite the hostile culture for women, Young successfully navigated multiple technical roles at the NACA.

MOLINE -- A pearl's "clam-to-glam" journey should inspire women at an April 26 conference to come out of their shells, too.

“Pearls of Wisdom is an annual event that Girl Scouts hosts to honor an exceptional woman leader in the Bangor area,” explains Mara Moorhead, CEO of Girl Scouts of Maine.