The New York Times feature that debuted on International Women’s Day 2018 with overlooked women’s obituaries was Overlooked No More.
The feature launched on March 8, 2018, publishing 15 obituaries of notable women whose deaths had not received obituaries in The New York Times. It was created to address a long-standing imbalance in the newspaper’s obituary coverage, which had historically focused heavily on white men.
The project was associated with Amy Padnani, the obituary desk’s digital editor, and Jessica Bennett, the Times’ gender editor. Rather than treating the subjects as merely “forgotten,” the feature presents them as people whose achievements deserved recognition but had been missed by the newspaper’s traditional obituary process.
Overlooked No More later became a recurring weekly feature. It has profiled women from many fields, including politics, science, literature, activism, and the arts. The name is sometimes shortened informally, but “Overlooked No More” is the canonical title—not Modern Love, The 1619 Project, or a generic series called Her Story.