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100
This event claimed the lives of 146 young immigrant women in 1911, one of the worst American workplace disasters to date.
What is the Triangle Factory fire
100
This Indian politician was Prime Minister for a total of 18 years.
Who is Who is Indira Gandhi
100
Although this famous French scientist won two Nobel Prizes, she was never admitted to the French Academie des Sciences
Who is Marie Curie
100
She founded modern nursing profession as a trained profession. She was Head British nurse in the Crimean War.
Who is Florence Nightingale
100
She became the first French woman to gain a major reputation as a novelist, although she had to do it under a male pseudonym.
Who is George Sand (Aurore Lucile Dupin)
200
This labor union agitator began working to end child labour and other unfair practices when she was sixty, and continued her activism into her nineties.
Who is Mother Jones (Mary Harris Jones)
200
J Edgar Hoover said she was “the most dangerous woman in America.” He had her exiled to the Soviet Union.
Who is Emma Goldman
200
This British primatologist and anthropologist made discoveries about chimpanzees that have prompted some scientists to reconsider the definition of what is human.
Who is Jane Goodall
200
Her book, The Silent Spring, motivated the environmentalist movement of the late 60s and early 70s
Who is Rachel Carson
200
This American folklorist, a member of the Harlem Renaissance, published her novel Their Eyes Were Watching God in 1937.
Who is Zora Neale Hurston
300
She was the first Canadian woman to sit in the House of Parliament. Appalled at the conditions of prisons in her day, she was a tireless worker to improve the condition of women prisoners.
Who is Agnes Campbell Macphail.
300
In 1898 this English political activist founded the Women's Social and Political Union, an all-women suffrage advocacy organisation dedicated to "deeds, not words.”
Who is Emmeline Pankhurst
300
This American pioneered the field of maize cytogenetics and won the Nobel Prize in 1983. Her discovery of genetic transposition, the ability of genes to change position on the chromosome, established her as one of the foremost geneticists of her time.
Who is Barbara McClintock
300
Although she never received formal training as a nurse, this Australian developed a clinical method for the treatment of polio and became the founder of physiotherapy.
Who is Sister Elizabeth Kenny
300
This Mexican painter's style reflected Mexican folk culture
Who is Frida Kahlo
400
She founded the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA) in 1977, a group organized to promote equality and education for women.
Who is Meena Keshwar Kamal
400
Although she won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1991, this Burmese politician has spent most of the past 19 years in detention
Who is Ang San Suu Kyi
400
The first woman in space, this Russian orbited the Earth 48 times in 1963.
Who is Valentina Vladimirovna Tereshkova.
400
This Kenyan won a Nobel Prize for her work in the African Green Belt Movement, an organization encouraging environmental conservation through the planting of trees.
Who is Wangari Mathaai
400
This prolific Egyptian writer is also a medical doctor. She has spent her life battling for the health and safety of women.
Who is Nawal El Saadawi
500
This American was the first woman to graduate from medical school. She graduated first in her class, in 1849.
Who is Elizabeth Blackwell
500
This “plain housewife” became the first president of the Phillipines in 1986.
Who is Corazon Acquino
500
This English aristocrat is known as the first computer programmer.
Who is Ada Lovelace (Who is Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace)
500
In 1993 this Indian activist received the Right Livelihood Award (also known as the 'Alternative Nobel Prize') for her work demonstrating the importance of women and the ecology in any discussion of international deveopment.
Who is Vandana Shiva
500
This South African singer was active in the civil rights movement. She was known as “Mama Africa”
Who is Miriam Makeba
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