Women in STEM
This female marine biologist and environmentalist wrote the book Silent Spring, starting the current environmentalist movement.
Who is Rachel Carson?
This female author is credited with creating the field of science fiction with her book Frankenstein
Who was Mary Shelley?
When our Declaration was created, who reminded her husband to "Remember the Ladies"? (Her husband and son both became presidents)
Who is Abigail Adams
Women fought and won the right to vote after 72 years. What was the amendment stating women could vote?
What is the 19th amendment?
Refused to give up her seat on a bus, sparking an entire movement in Montgomery, Alabama
Who was Rosa Parks?
An African-American space scientist and mathematician who calculated the trajectory for the first flight to the moon?
Who was Katherine Johnson
This female crime novelist created 66 books (like Murder on the Orient Express) and memorable characters like Detectives Miss Marple and Hercule Poirot
Who is Agatha Christie?
This woman opened a college for women in Florida that taught women of color nursing, teaching, agriculture, and domestic sciences. She served on FDR's "Black Cabinet"
Who Mary McLeod Bethune?
The year the first time a woman legally voted. (Lydia Chapin Taft voted in Uxbridge, MA because her husband died and she now held a large estate. )
What is 1756?
In the 1920s, this journalist wrote about the lynchings and started the NAACP
Who was Ida B. Wells
Computer programmer and language designer from the 1930s to the 1980s. Created the computer language COBOL, still used today.
Who was Grace Murray Hopper
Author whose books (like Pride & Prejudice) gently mocked societal biases and oppression of women and classes
Who is Jane Austen?
This Representative from Montana (1917-1919 and again 1941-1942) was the only lawmaker to vote against US entry into both world wars
Who was Jeannette Rankin?
The year that women could have a credit card in their own name (rather than their father's or husband's)
What is 1973?
This woman fought for voting rights for all people. She represented the Freedom Democratic Party at the 1964 Democratic National Convention.
Who is Fannie Lou Hamer
Who was the American chemist who created shelf-stable soy drink and created milk for lactose-intolerant people.
Who was Virginia Holsinger?
Early feminist poet, playwright and novelist -- born in Pittsburgh! --including Three Lives (1909)
Who is Gertrude Stein?
The first woman to run for president in 1872 on the Equal Rights Party Ticket.
Who was Victoria Woodhull?
The year of the Pregnancy Discrimination Act, stopping women from being fired for being "visibly pregnant"
What is 1978. (Note: women are still fired for this....)
This civil rights activist fought for better working conditions, better pay, and more rights for farmworkers. She began the United Farm Workers (UFW)
Who is Delores Huerta?
First woman to fly across the Atlantic, taking care of her own plane.
Who were the Amelia Earhart
This English author challenged the social injustices on women and is a pioneer of stream of consciousness in novels
Who is Virginia Woolf
The first woman to serve on a president' cabinet officially, she served as the Secretary of Labor under President Franklin Roosevelt
Who is Frances Perkins
Attempting to create full equality for all across genders, this Constitution amendment proposed in 1972 still has not been approved.
What is the Equal Rights Amendment
This court case focused on an 8-year old girl was turned away from a White school due to the color of her skin and her Mexican heritage in 1947.
What was the Mendez case (or who was Sylvia Mendez)?