Women in Business
Muriel Siebert became the first woman to hold a seat on this stock exchange in 1967.
New York Stock Exchange (NYSE)
She wrote I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, a powerful memoir about her early life and experiences with racism.
Maya Angelou
Who is known as the youngest Nobel Prize laureate for advocating girls’ education?
Malala Yousafzai
Who created the TV show Grey’s Anatomy?
Shonda Rhimes
What amendment granted women the right to vote?
19th Amendment
Who was the first female CEO of a Fortune 500 company?
Katherine Graham (Washington Post)
In 1851, she delivered her famous “Ain’t I a Woman?” speech at a women’s rights convention in Akron, Ohio.
Sojourner Truth
Who was the first female Prime Minister of the UK?
Margaret Thatcher
She was the first Asian woman to win the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role in Everything Everywhere All at Once.
Michelle Yeoh
What global movement, gaining prominence in 2017, encouraged survivors to speak out about sexual harassment and assault?
#Me Too Movement
This dating app, launched in 2014, was designed so that women make the first move.
Bumble
This woman wrote The Feminine Mystique, a book that sparked the second-wave feminist movement in the U.S.
Betty Friedan
Who was the first female Supreme Court Justice?
Sandra Day O'Connor
Who was the first woman on the cover of Forbes as a self-made billionaire entrepreneur?
Kylie Jenner
What was the name of the 1848 convention considered the first women’s rights gathering in the United States?
Seneca Falls Convention
This shapewear company, founded by female entrepreneur Sara Blakely in 2000, became a billion-dollar brand.
Spanx
She was a NASA mathematician whose work was critical to early U.S. space missions and was portrayed in Hidden Figures.
Katherine Johnson
Who was the first woman inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame?
Aretha Franklin
This 2023 blockbuster, directed by Greta Gerwig, became the highest-grossing film ever directed by a woman
Barbie
What term refers to the movement in the 1960s–1980s that focused on workplace equality, reproductive rights, and legal inequalities?
Second Wave Feminism
This term describes the underrepresentation of women in top executive roles, especially in finance and corporate leadership.
Glass Ceiling
An Austrian-American actress once called the “most beautiful woman in the world” who later co-invented frequency-hopping technology used in Wi-Fi and Bluetooth.
Hedy Lamarr
Who was the first women to walk in space?
Svetlana Savitskaya
This author, widely considered the best-selling novelist of all time with over 2 billion copies sold, ranks just behind William Shakespeare and the Bible in total works distributed.
Agatha Christie
This 1963 law aimed to eliminate wage disparities between men and women
Equal Pay Act