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Who was the first woman to be inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame?
Aretha Franklin
Referred to as the "Queen of Soul", she has twice been placed ninth in Rolling Stone's "100 Greatest Artists of All Time". With global sales of over 75 million records, Franklin is one of the world's best-selling music artists.
Who was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize?
Marie Curie
A Polish and naturalized-French physicist and chemist who conducted pioneering research on radioactivity. She was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, the first person to win a Nobel Prize twice, and the only person to win a Nobel Prize in two scientific fields.
Who's brave activism lead to the Montgomery Bus Boycott?
Rosa Parks
An American activist in the civil rights movement best known for her pivotal role in the Montgomery bus boycott. The United States Congress has honored her as "the first lady of civil rights" and "the mother of the freedom movement". In 1983, she was inducted into Michigan Women's Hall of Fame for her achievements in civil rights.
Who was the first female justice on the United States Supreme Court?
Sandra Day O’Connor
Prior to O'Connor's tenure on the Court, she was a judge and an elected official in Arizona, serving as the first female majority leader of a state senate as the Republican leader in the Arizona Senate
Well-behaved women seldom make history
Laurel Ulrich
A Pulitzer Prize-winning American historian specializing in early America and the history of women, and a professor at Harvard University.
Who was the first woman to win Album Of The Year at the Grammys?
Julie Garland
Garland was the first woman to win the Grammy Award for Album of the Year, which she won for her 1961 live recording titled Judy at Carnegie Hall.
Who was the first woman to travel to space?
Valentina Tereshkova
A Russian engineer, she is known for being the first and youngest woman in space, having flown a solo mission on the Vostok 6 on 16 June 1963. She orbited the Earth 48 times, spent almost three days in space, and remains the only woman to have been on a solo space mission.
Who is known as the founder of ‘modern nursing’ and helped further army medical services?
Florence Nightingale
An English social reformer, statistician and the founder of modern nursing. Nightingale came to prominence while serving as a manager and trainer of nurses during the Crimean War, in which she organised care for wounded soldiers at Constantinople
Who was the first female Secretary of State of the United States?
Madeleine Albright
Born in Prague, Czechoslovakia, Albright immigrated to the United States after the 1948 communist coup d'état when she was eleven years old. Her father, diplomat Josef Korbel, settled the family in Denver, Colorado, and she became a U.S. citizen in 1957. Albright graduated from Wellesley College in 1959 and earned a PhD from Columbia University in 1975.
"We cannot all succeed when half of us are held back"
Malala Yousafzai
A Pakistani female education activist and the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize laureate. Awarded when she was 17, she is the world's youngest Nobel Prize laureate, and the second Pakistani and the first Pashtun to receive a Nobel Prize.
Who was the first woman to produce her own TV talk show?
Oprah Winfrey
The Oprah Winfrey Show ran national syndication for 25 years, from 1986 to 2011. Dubbed the "Queen of All Media", she was the richest African-American of the 20th century and was once the world's only black billionaire.
Who was the first woman to fly a plane across the Atlantic?
Amelia Earhart
Earhart was the first female aviator to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean She was one of the first aviators to promote commercial air travel, wrote best-selling books about her flying experiences, and was instrumental in the formation of The Ninety-Nines, an organization for female pilots.
Who were the freedom fighters that led a rebellion against the Chinese Han in 40 C.E?
The Trung Sisters
Vietnamese military leaders who ruled for three years after rebelling in AD 40 against the first Chinese domination of Vietnam. They are regarded as national heroines of Vietnam.
Who was the first woman of color elected to the United States House of Representatives?
Patsy Takemoto Mink
An American attorney and politician from the U.S. state of Hawaii. She served in the United States House of Representatives for 24 years as a member of the Democratic Party, initially from 1965 to 1977, and again from 1990 until her death in 2002.
"Women belong in all places where decisions are being made. … It shouldn't be that women are the exception."
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
An American lawyer and jurist who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1993 until her death in 2020. Ginsburg spent much of her legal career as an advocate for gender equality and women's rights, winning many arguments before the Supreme Court.