Women in Politics
Women in the Arts
Women in STEM
Women Writers and Poets
Women in Sports
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She was the 49th Vice President of the United States and first woman, African American, and Asian American to serve in that position. She later ran for the presidency in 2024.
Who is Kamala Harris?
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An African American female singing group consisting of members Diana Ross, Florence Ballard, and Mary Wilson. Some of their most notable songs include "Stop in the Name of Love" and "You Can't Hurry Love".
Who were The Supremes?
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She expressed interest in aerospace and engineering from an early age. She became the first woman of Indian origin to fly into space with NASA on the space shuttle Columbia.
Who was Kalpana Chawla?
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This African American author won a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction with the novel The Color Purple.
Who is Alice Walker?
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In 2016, she became the first African American woman to win an Olympic gold medal in swimming during the Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.
Who is Simone Manuel?
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She is the first woman with a disability to be elected to Congress from Illinois. She is an Asian American, Iraq War veteran who lost her legs when her helicopter was struck during a deployment.
Who is Senator Tammy Duckworth?
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She is a Chinese American architect, designer, and sculptor who used inspiration of culturally diverse sources and nature's natural beauty to win a design competition at 21 years old to design the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington DC, earning her national recognition.
Who is Maya Lin?
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She was an Austrian and American actress who invented the "Secret Communication System" which allowed radio signals to hop across frequencies, laying the foundation for Wifi, Bluetooth, and GPS.
Who was Hedy Lamarr?
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She was a well known for writing the Broadway play A Raisin in the Sun, which was inspired by the racial segregation she experienced as an African American girl growing up in Chicago.
Who was Lorraine Hansberry?
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The first Black woman to win the Wimbledon singles title in 1957 and repeated this victory in 1958 as well, opening doors for future Black tennis stars.
Who was Althea Gibson?
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She is the first Black woman to serve as a Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court and was appointed by President Joe Biden in 2022.
Who is Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson?
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She was an American painter who was an influential figure in Modernism, best known for her large-format paintings of natural forms, especially of flowers and bones.
Who was Georgia O'Keeffe?
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She was a scientist whose Photo 51 revealed the double helix of DNA, a discovery that was essential in unlocking the mystery to how life is passed down from generation to generation. This data was shared and used without her consent, and two men took credit for her discovery.
Who was Dr. Rosalind Franklin?
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She became the first woman to win a Pulitzer Prize in 1921 for her novel The Age of Innocence.
Who is Edith Wharton?
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She is a tennis champion and social activist, using her status as a prominent athlete to champion for gender equality for all, Title IX, and LGBTQ visibility.
Who is Billie Jean King?
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She was the first Native American woman to serve in a US Cabinet position as the Secretary of the Interior. She is a member of the Pueblo Nation.
Who is Deb Haaland?
400
The first African American to win an Academy Award for her role in Gone With the Wind (1939), Civil War era movie set around Atlanta.
Who was Hattie McDaniel?
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A holder of over 200 patents, she is the current Vice President of Engineering at Google and is known for her contribution to the fields of Voice Over Internet Protocol.
Who is Marian Croak?
400
She was and African American novelist and anthropologist during the Harlem Renaissance and is well known for her novel Their Eyes Were Watching God.
Who was Zora Neale Hurston?
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With the entry of the United States into World War II in the 1940s, major league executives started this new professional league with women players in order to maintain baseball in the public eye while many men were away at war.
What was the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League?
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She is the first Somali American and naturalized citizen of African birth elected to the United States House of Representatives in 2018. She represents Minnesota's 5th Congressional district.
Who is Ilhan Omar?
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This Puerto Rican actress, dancer, and singer has had a career spanning eight decades on the screen and stage. She is one of the last remaining stars from the Golden Age of Hollywood and is one of the few performers in history to win an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony (EGOT).
Who is Rita Moreno?
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Founded by a leading activist, Reshma Saujani, this international nonprofit is working to close the gender gap in technology and leading the movement to inspire, educate, and equip students who identify as girls or non-binary with computing skills.
What is Girls who Code?
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She is a celebrated poet and activist known for her powerful performances and advocacy for social justice, making history as the the youngest poet to recite at a presidential inauguration in 2021.
Who is Amanda Gorman?
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In 2018, this Korean American professional snowboarder became the youngest woman to win an Olympic snowboarding gold medal in the halfpipe at just 17 years old.
Who is Chloe Kim?
