IBM Women
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 considered as the first modern programmer in history. She created COBOL (Common Business Oriented Language), the most widely used high-level programming language of the 20th century. 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
She was the first woman ever to serve as United States Secretary of State
Madeleine Albright
Her famous mathematical computations—which launched astronaut John Glenn into orbit in 1962 and later sent Apollo 11 to the Moon—were finally highlighted in the 2016 movie Hidden Figures
Who is Katherine Johnson
First American woman to win three gold medals in a single Olympics.
Who is Wilma Rudolph
As a human computer, she calculated the trajectory for Alan Shepard, the first American in space.
Katherine Johnson
The Queen of Gospel and the inspiration behind Dr. King’s iconic “I Have a Dream” speech.
Who is Mahalia Jackson
She was the face of women workers in World War II
Rosie the Riveter
The first woman to win the Turing Award, equivalent to the Nobel Prize in Computer Science. Like Hopper, she was also a pioneer in the optimisation of compilers and a strong promoter of the female presence in STEM fields.
Frances (Fran) Allen
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
Not only was physicist and chemist _______ the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, but she also won the award twice. She discovered the elements radium and polonium, which became monumental in research for cancer treatment and cures. She also created portable X-ray machines.
Marie Curie
Largely hailed as the figure whose mathematical work led to the invention of the Global Positioning system (GPS). She programmed the IBM 7030 ‘Stretch’ computer that delivered refined calculations for a geodetic Earth model, which eventually became known as GPS. In 2018, she was inducted into the Air Force Space and Missile Pioneers Hall of Fame.
Gladys West
FIFA Female Player of the Century, two-time World Cup champion, Olympic gold medalist
Who is Michelle Akers
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
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."
Agojie
Mathematician and the world's first computer programmer.
Who is Ada Lovelace