Years
The first Women's History Day was held this year.
1909
She was the first woman in space.
Sally Ride
"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent".
Eleanor Roosevelt
She was the first female Secretary of State. (1997)
Madeleine Albright
How many years of constant effort had supporters devoted to the women's suffrage campaign?
72
(1848 - 1920)
The year that Women's History Day became Women's History Week.
1978
She was not only the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, but she is the only woman to date to win two.
Marie Curie
“It was we, the people; not we, the white male citizens; nor yet we, the male citizens; but we, the whole people, who formed the Union. ... Men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less.”
Susan B Anthony
Women make up this percentage of Congress.
25%
Women earn this percentage of college degrees.
57%
The year that Women's History Week became Women's History Month
1987
This territory in the US gave every woman the right to vote in 1869.
Wyoming Territory
"I grew up like a neglected weed, ignorant of liberty, having no experience of it."
Harriet Tubman
She was the first female Vice President candidate on a major political party ticket. (1984)
Geraldine Ferraro
A famous sport journalist, he wrote an article, “Why I Support the ERA” that appeared in the October 1975 issue of Ms.Magazine.
Howard Cosell
The year of the Equal Credit Opportunity Act, which allowed women the right to obtain credit cards separate from their husbands.
1974
First woman inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.
Aretha Franklin
"It is just a fact that women don't do certain things that men do, such as go to war and fly airplanes. The fact that women are not in this field is a fact of our social order" he said when opposing Jerrie Cobb's plea to Congress to allow female astronauts. (1962)
John Glenn
She was the first woman in modern history to lead a major Native-American tribe, the Cherokee Nation.
She was the U.S. president’s wife who saved historic paintings when the British army burned the White House in 1814.
Dolly Madison
The year Pregnancy Discrimination Act was passed. This made it illegal to fire women for being pregnant, which was previously common practice.
1978
First black woman elected to Congress. (1968)
Shirley Chisholm
"Tremendous amounts of talent are being lost to our society just because that talent wears a skirt".
Shirley Chisholm
The only female whose name is on the Declaration of Independence.
Mary Katharine Goddard.
How many other countries already allowed women to vote before the US did?
16
New Zealand (1893), Australia (1902), Finland (1906), Norway (1913), Denmark (1915), USSR (1917), Canada (1918), Germany (1918), Poland (1918), Austria (1919), Belgium (1919), Great Britain (1919), Ireland (1919), Luxembourg (1919), the Netherlands (1919), Sweden (1919