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100

She is the US Federal D&TT Service Line Leader

Leanne Haselden

100

She was ranked world No. 1 in singles by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) for 319 weeks, including a joint-record 186 consecutive weeks.

Serena Williams

100

This pioneer is the first female aviator to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean.

Amelia Earhart

100

She holds the record for the most Academy Award nominations of any actor, having been nominated twenty-one times.

Meryl Streep

100

Who is the first female Vice President?

Kamala Harris

200

She previously served as chairman, president and CEO of IBM, becoming the first woman to head the company.

Ginni Rometty

200

She is the first African American to become the Olympic individual all-around champion.

Gabby Douglas

200

She is a pioneering computer programmer and one of the first women to achieve a PhD in mathematics. She also coined the term "debugging." 

Grace Hopper

200

Who is the best-selling female artist of all time? 

Madonna

200

She was the first woman ever to serve as United States Secretary of State 

Madeleine Albright

300

Who is the first female executive at IBM?

Ruth Leach (1943)

300

As a human computer, she calculated the trajectory for Alan Shepard, the first American in space.

Katherine Johnson

300

She was the face of women workers in World War II

Rosie the Riveter

400

What percent of the IBM workforce consist of women?

29-30%

400

She is became the first woman inducted into the World Football (Soccer) Hall of Fame

Mia Hamm

400

She won the Nobel Prize for the discovery of jumping genes, which are sequences of DNA that move between the genome. 

Barbara McClintock

400

This test asks whether a film features at least two women talking to each other about something other than a man.

The Bechdel test

500

This inventor created the windshield wiper after riding a trolley car where the driver had to open the front window panes to see through falling sleet. 

Mary Anderson 

500

They are the all-woman warrior unit that inspired the warriors and bodyguards of the Marvel Comics Black Panther movie and the subject of the movie "The Woman King."

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