She previously served as chairman, president and CEO of IBM, becoming the first woman to head the company.
Ginni Rometty
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
This pioneer is the first female aviator to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean.
Amelia Earhart
She holds the record for the most Academy Award nominations of any actor, having been nominated twenty-one times.
Meryl Streep
Who is the first female Vice President?
Kamala Harris
Who is the first female executive at IBM?
Ruth Leach (1943)
She is the first African American to become the Olympic individual all-around champion.
Gabby Douglas
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
Who is the best-selling female artist of all time?
Madonna
Who was the first female justice on the Supreme Court?
Sandra Day O'Connor
What is the percentage of women employees at IBM?
37.6% (as of 2021, reference: IBM D&I Annual Report)
As a human computer, she calculated the trajectory for Alan Shepard, the first American in space.
Katherine Johnson
Who was the first female EGOT (Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony) Winner?
Helen Hayes
Who was the first female U.S. Secretary of State?
Madeleine Albright
She is the United States women's national soccer team's All-time leading scorer, two-time Olympic gold medalist, and six-time winner of U.S. Soccer Athlete of the Year.
Abby Wambach
She won the Nobel Prize for the discovery of jumping genes, which are sequences of DNA that move between the genome.
Barbara McClintock
This test asks whether a film features at least two women talking to each other about something other than a man.
The Bechdel test
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