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Meet the Women. For more than seven decades, women fought to win the right to vote. Since then, they have been fighting to win elections. From suffragist to history-making politicians, these trailblazers have sought to make women’s voices heard. As we celebrate the centennial of the Nineteenth Amendment, we highlight not only the women who ...
Jun 4, 2019 · Arguably the most famous female scientist of them all and one of the most important women in history, Marie Curie, born Maria Sklodowska in Warsaw, Poland, in 1867, was a young revolutionary ...
Mar 30, 2018 · Getty Images. In 1916, Jeannette Rankin became the first woman elected to Congress. The Montana Republican and fierce women's rights advocate was one of 50 representatives who voted against ...
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Jan 4, 2010 · Here are 21 famous firsts in women’s history. 1. First women’s-rights convention meets in Seneca Falls, New York, 1848. In July 1848, some 240 men and women gathered in upstate New York for a ...
Mar 15, 2023 · In recognition of International Women’s Day on March 8 — and just because it’s the year 2020 — here are a few boundary-breaking women in science that should be household names, too. 1. Ada Lovelace, Mathematician. Dec. 10, 1815-Nov. 27, 1852. Lovelace is regarded as the first computer programmer — long before modern computers were ...
Feb 17, 2022 · Maya Angelou. Mary Wollstonecraft. Gertrude Stein. Bibliography. There have been many influential women throughout history. While women's history has often been ignored or even erased over the ...
Feb 10, 2023 · Junko Tabei (1939-2016) In 1975, Tabei became the first woman to summit Mount Everest. On top of that, she was also the first woman to complete the “Seven Summits,” climbing the tallest mountain on each continent. Tabei’s Everest expedition was made up of all women—unheard of at the time—and even survived an avalanche.
