Notorious RBG
Women in Space
Female Activists
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Women Athletes
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In 1956, Ginsburg was one of just nine female students matriculating at this law school.
Harvard Law School
The dean of the Law School at the time, Erwin Griswold, hosted a dinner for the women—and at the end of the meal, asked each of them to go around and share how it was they justified taking a spot that would otherwise have gone to a man. Years later—when word got back to Griswold that his former student enjoyed recounting this tale on the lecture circuit—he insisted that it had all been in good fun.
100
The first woman to fly to space (shown here) was from this country. 
Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova became the first woman to fly to space when she launched on the Vostok 6 mission June 16, 1963.
100
This activists has become an iconic figure in the civil rights movement for her simple gesture of resistance in 1955, when she refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white passenger.
Rosa Parks
100
This Swedish environmental activist worked to address the problem of climate change, founding a movement known as Fridays for Future (also called School Strike for Climate).
Greta Thunberg
100
This retired track and field athlete from East St. Louis, ranked among the all-time greatest athletes in the heptathlon as well as long jump. She won three gold, one silver, and two bronze Olympic medals, in those two events at four different Olympic Games.
Jackie Joyner-Kersee
200
RBG ranked this in her graduating class, but still couldn't find a job.
First
Ginsburg transferred from Harvard to Columbia, where she graduated at the top of her class. But few law firms at that point had opened their doors to women, and despite glowing recommendations from several of her professors, none of them were able to secure her a clerkship with a federal judge. Ginsburg was finally able to get her foot in the door with a lower-ranking district court judge, Edmund Palmieri—and only after one of her mentors threatened to stop sending clerks his way if he turned her down.
200
These two NASA astronauts made space history with the world's first all-female spacewalk in what year?
2019
NASA astronauts Christina Koch and Jessica Meir went outside the International Space Station on an unplanned repair spacewalk to fix a fault battery component. Koch, a spacewalk veteran, led the EVA while Meir performed her first spacewalk.
200
This activist, the wife of Civil Rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., played a notable role in the American Civil Rights movement.
Coretta Scott King
200
This American actress and political activist once said, " To be a revolutionary you have to be a human being. You have to care about people who have no power."
Jane Fonda
200
This American professional tennis player and former world No. 1 in women's singles tennis has won 23 Grand Slam singles titles, the most by any player in the Open Era, and the second-most of all-time behind Margaret Court.
Serena Williams
300
At the 1993 White House press conference announcing her nomination to the Supreme Court, Ruth Bader Ginsburg wrapped up her remarks with an emotional tribute to this woman.
“I have a last thank-you,” RBG told the crowd assembled. “It’s to my mother. My mother was the bravest, strongest person I have ever known, who was taken from me much too soon. I pray that I may be all that she would have been had she lived in an age when women could aspire and achieve and daughters are cherished as much as sons.”
300
The first American woman in space is shown here on the flight deck of space shuttle Challenger during her historic 1983 mission. Who is she?
Sally Ride
On June 18, 1983, NASA astronaut Sally Ride became the first U.S. woman in space when she launched on the STS-7 mission of the space shuttle Challenger.
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As a child in Pakistan, this activist wrote a blog for the BBC detailing the conditions of the education system in the country and why it was essential for young women to go to school. She became a spokesperson for the cause as a teenager and, in October of 2012, the Taliban attempted to assassinate her for it.
Malala Yousafzai
300
This German politician became the first female chancellor of Germany in 2005.
Angela Merkel
300
This American artistic gymnast has a combined total of 30 Olympic and World Championship medals, and she is absolutely amazing to watch!
Simone Biles
400
RBG was the second woman ever to serve on the Supreme Court of the United States. Who was the first?
Justice Sandra Day O'Connor was appointed to the Supreme Court by President Ronald Reagan, and served from 1981 until 2006.
400
NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson became the first woman to command the International Space Station when she took the helm of the outpost during Expedition 16 during what year?
2008
On her next spaceflight in 2016, she became the first woman to command the space station twice when she took command of Expedition 51. She holds the record for being the oldest woman in space, having returned from her final mission at the age of 57.
400
This activist helped found New York magazine, in which she wrote essays on politics and women's rights, and then Ms. magazine, which tackled issues like domestic violence.
Gloria Steinem
400
Just 18 years old when this photograph was taken in 1961, this woman joined four other Freedom Riders on a voyage to battle segregation in the south.
Annie Lumpkin
400
This American retired soccer player was also a coach, two-time Olympic gold medalist, a FIFA Women's World Cup champion and a member of the National Soccer Hall of Fame.
Abby Wambach
500
Ginsburg and O’Connor jointly decided that they would use these to carve out a visual space of their own in what would otherwise be a sea of black robes and ties.
jabot or lace collar
You know, the standard robe is made for a man because it has a place for the shirt to show, and the tie,” Ginsburg told The Washington Post in 2009. “So Sandra Day O’Connor and I thought it would be appropriate if we included as part of our robe something typical of a woman.”
500
The NASA astronaut shown here flew on space shuttle Endeavour in September 1992, becoming the first African-American woman to travel to space. What was her name?
Mae Jemison
Jemison launched into space on Endeavour on Sept. 12, 1992 as part of the seven-person STS-47 crew. She served as a mission specialist, performing experiments in two bone cell research experiments among other tasks. Endeavour carried a Spacelab module in its payload bay to allow room for more than 43 different studies during the mission.
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This activist's 1963 book The Feminine Mystique was revolutionary when it was first published, exploring the traditional role of women and advocating for the female gender to seek fulfillment outside the home.
Betty Friedan
500
This woman was the first female animator at Disney, getting a screen credit on the 1942 film Bambi.
Retta Scott
500
This Golfer became in instant sensation in 2003 when, at age 13, she became the youngest player ever to win a USGA event at the Women’s Amateur Public Links.
Michelle Wie