Women History Month History
Year of the first Women's History Day
1909
The first state to grant women the right to vote.
The territory of Wyoming (1869).
Name of woman who refused to give up her bus seat 9 months before Rosa Parks did.
Claudette Colvin
How much do white women earn compared to men?
84 percent.
The first woman to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
Jane Addams (1889 for the opening of Hull House in Chicago).
Year in which Women's History Day became Women's History Week
1978
Year in which Native American women were given the right to citizenship and the vote.
1924 (vs. white women 1920).
Name of the first woman to pass astronaut testing in 1961.
Geraldyn "Jerrie" Cobb (was not allowed to go into space because of her gender).
64 percent.
The first Black female millionaire in the U.S.
Madam C. J. Walker (haircare)
Year in which Women's History Week became Women's History Month
1987
Year in which LBJ signed the Voting Rights Act, giving all women the right to vote.
1965 (vs. white women 1920)
Name of the first woman in space — and the first gay astronaut.
Sally Ride (1983, 22 years after Geraldyn "Jerrie" Cobb became the first woman to pass space training).
Year in which the US government lifted its ban on women serving in combat positions.
2013
The first Black American female lawyer in the U.S.
Charlotte E. Ray (1872, Harvard).
Theme of the 2023 Women's History Month
"Celebrating women who tell our stories."
Name of the female Supreme Court Justice that laid the framework for the Equal Credit Opportunity Act (that allowed women to get credit cards).
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
The first woman to receive two Nobel prizes.
Marie Curie.
The first woman to earn a medical degree in the U.S.
Elizabeth Blackwell (1847).
The first female justice on the Supreme Court.
Sandra Day O’Connor (1981-2006)
You get a free doughnut!
Thank you for choosing the hardest question on the board!
Women make up what percentage of Congress?
27 percent (145 Congresswomen).
The first woman to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Aretha Franklin (1987).
Year Title IX was passed.
March 1st, 1972
The first novel was written by which Japanese woman?
Murasaki Shikibu (The Tale of Genji, 1000 A.D.)