Women's History Month
The year when the record number of women were elected to public office in the United States.
When is 2020?
The first state to elect all women of color to its House Delegation.
What is New Mexico?
In 1981, at the age of 21, Maya Lin won a competition to design what Washington DC landmark.
What is the Vietnam Veterans Memorial?
The Spanish American was one of the best-known Latin American poets of her time.
Who was Gabriela Mistral?
Matzah, horseradish, parsley, and wine are some common dishes you might eat at the traditional Passover dinner.
What is Seder?
The year congress passed the Public Law 100-9, declaring the entire month of March Women's History Month.
When is 1987?
In March, Deb Haaland was confirmed this position and became the first Native American Cabinet secretary in U.S. history
What is Secretary of the Interior?
Katie Sowers became the first woman and openly gay person to coach in the Super Bowl in 2020 with this team.
What is the San Francisco 49ers?
Who is Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier?
In Holi, the Festival of Colors, each color has symbolic meaning. For instance the color red symbolizes this emotion.
What is love?
She lobbied for the creation of Women's History Week, which was declared by President Jimmy Carter in 1980.
Who is Gerda Lerner?
Only two years after the passage of this amendment -giving women the right to vote - Soledad C. Chacón was elected to Secretary of State of New Mexico.
What is the 19th amendment?
Maia Chaka is the second woman and first black woman to be an on-field official in this sports league.
What is the NFL?
In 1945 author Gabriela Mistral won this award for her poetry, a first for a Latin American author.
What is the Nobel Prize for Literature?
It is not uncommon to include a cup of water for her at Passover to honor her role in ensuring the survival of the Jewish people.
Who is Miriam?
This was founded in 1980 in Santa Rosa, CA to broadcast women's historical achievements.
What is the National Women's History Project (NWHP)?
Dr. Rachel Levine is first openly transgender federal official to be confirmed on March 24 to this cabinet department.
What is Department of Health and Human Services?
This Japanese-American artist is known for her crocheted wire sculptures.
Who is Ruth Asawa?
The discovery of a game-changing gene editing technique, Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier share this.
What is the Nobel Prize for Chemistry?
This staple St. Patrick's day dish became an iconic in America due to the close Irish/Jewish connection in NYC in the 1800s.
What is corned beef?
This Lemhi Shoshone woman acted as a guide and interpreter in their exploration of the Louisiana Territory.
Who is Sacagawea?
The New York Times bestselling author of 15 suspense novels, including works that have been translated into six languages.
Who is Lisa Black?
Ruth Asawa attended this college, which opened in rural North Carolina in 1933.
What is Black Mountain College?
This gene editing tool allows precise edits to the genome and has swept through laboratories worldwide since its inception in the 2010s.
What is CRISPR?
Holi is in large part a celebration of Prince Prahalada's devotion to and protection by this Hindu deity.
Who is Lord Vishnu?