The earlier manifestation of this site was Girlonthestreet.com founded in 1999 as a pre-blog era blog on social trends and female creativity in New York and around the world. GOTS had a team of 100 women around the world who reported all the trends and creative interests they witnessed from their unique vantage point. There were reports from Dusseldorf, Riga, Singapore, Paris, Berlin, Athens (Georgia), Sydney, Melbourne, Bangkok, London, and so on. The site was an early pioneer in the field of online trend reportage and was featured in several magazines, both U.S. and international and in 2003 was nominated for a Webby. In 2004, the founder joined the advertising world as a full-time brand strategist and Girl on the street functioned as a tool for ethnography and creative insights and not as a public website.

In 2007, girlonthestreet.com relaunched in Paris as a flash site showcasing video reportage of creative events around Europe as the founder worked on independent projects both as a creative writer, business writer, and as a brand strategist for female entrepreneurs, namely in Japan.

Now based in Barcelona this new site is primarily a design blog but differs from other design blogs in that it serves to aggregate and showcase the best and most exciting female makers of all kinds from around the world. Welcome to What Women Make.