AAUW
The year AAUW was founded was also the year President Garfield was shot by a disgruntled candidate.
1881
This lady wrote “The Feminine Mystique” in 1968 and became a leading figure in the Women’s Movement?
Betty Friedan
This woman opened the first birth control clinic in the United States, and established organizations that evolved into the Planned Parenthood Federation of America.
Margaret Sanger
This CEO recently accepted a new position at the Washington Center thus kicking off a search for a new CEO.
Kimberly Churches
She was the United States delegate to the United Nations who championed and won approval of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948.
Eleanor Roosevelt
The first woman awarded a Nobel Prize for her incredible work in radiation.
Marie Curie
This issue has been the corner stone of AAUW advocacy.
Pay Equity
In 1968 she became the first black woman elected to congress.
Shirley Chisholm
This gifted mathematician who lived between 1815-1852 is considered to be the world's first computer programmer?
Ada Lovelace
This AAUW founder was also the Dean of Women at the University of Chicago.
Marion Talbot
This was the first woman in modern history to lead a major Native-American tribe, the Cherokee Nation.
Wilma Mankiller
She penned Frankenstein.
Mary Shelley
This organization is the predecessor to AAUW.
ACA - Association of Collegiate Alumnae
This female lawyer who worked for equal rights and suffrage, co-founded the ACLU in 1910, and helped write the Equal Rights Amendment.
Crystal Eastman
This aviator was the first to cross the Atlantic Sea solo by plane.
Amelia Earhart