First female US Secretary of State
Madeleine Albright
Malala Yousafzai was shot in the head for speaking out about what?
Women's rights to education
She sang at the 2023 Super Bowl
Rhianna
Activist co-founded and presided over the National Woman Suffrage Association
Susan B. Anthony
Famous fashion designer started by making doll clothes from scraps of nuns’ skirts in the convent where she grew up
CoCo CHANEL
This artist is known as the "Queen of Soul" and won 18 grammys.
Aretha Franklin
US First Lady known for being the first to take on responsibilities beyond hosting and entertaining in the White House
Eleanor Roosevelt
Simone Biles is the most decorated athlete in which sport
Simone Biles
Escaped slavery and an American abolitionist.
Harriet Tubman
"The question isn’t who’s going to let me; it’s who’s going to stop me."
Ayn Rand
First Black woman to be elected to the United States Congress (also a good friend of Jo Jo's late Mother)
Shirley Chisholm
Invented the windshield wiper
Mary Anderson
First woman to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
Aretha Franklin
First woman to win a Tony Award for Best Director of a play
Julie Taymor, for the 1998 production of "The Lion King
First African American woman to win the Nobel Prize for literature
Toni Morrison
Said to have agreed to make the first American flag
Betsy Ross
Which scientist’s contribution led to the discovery of the structure of DNA
Rosalind Franklin
This Roman Catholic nun’s charity work and charity houses saved millions of lives
Mother Teresa
This woman worked on the first computer to decode secret messages during the Second World War
Grace Hopper
Fought for women to have the right to vote and the right to own property
Susan B Anthony
She was a pioneering physicist who discovered radium and polonium. She won two Nobel Prizes for her work
Marie Curie
This queen never married because she valued her independence.
Queen Elizabeth I
In World War II, this woman became a spy. She used cooking to keep sharks away from bombs targeted at submarines.
Julie Child!
This French military leader and strategist led an army aged only 16
Joan of Arc
First female driver at the Indianapolis 500
Janet Guthrie