Women in STEM
She was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize (in 1903) and the first person to win Nobel Prizes in two different scientific fields.
Who is Marie Curie?
This activist, often called "the mother of the civil rights movement," refused to give up her seat on the bus.
Who is Rosa Parks?
She was a UConn star drafted first in the 2025 WNBA draft.
Who is Paige Bueckers?
Known for her self-portraits, this Mexican artist was honored in the Barbie Inspiring Women series.
Who is Frida Kahlo?
She was the first female aviator to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean.
Who is Amelia Earhart?
This primatologist is known for her 60-year study of social and family interactions of wild chimpanzees in Tanzania.
Who is Jane Goodall?
She is known as the "Lady with the Lamp" for her nursing work during the Crimean War.
Who is Florence Nightingale?
She is an American professional basketball player for the Indiana Fever of the WNBA. She also played college basketball for the Iowa Hawkeyes.
Who is Caitlin Clark?
This English author is known for writing Frankenstein, and was the daughter of feminist Mary Wollstonecraft.
Who is Mary Shelley?
In 1983, she became the first American woman in space.
Who is Sally Ride?
This NASA mathematician's calculations were critical to the success of the first U.S. manned spaceflights.
Who is Katherine Johnson?
In the year 1920, this Constitutional Amendment granted women the right to vote.
What is the 19th Amendment?
Since Paris 2024, she holds the record for the most Olympic medals in swimming by a woman. She has also won 21 World Championship titles in swimming.
Who is Katie Ledecky?
This author wrote Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility.
Who is Jane Austen?
Who was credited for being the first maker of the American Flag?
Who is Betsy Ross?
This British biophysicist's X-ray diffraction images of DNA were crucial to discovering its double-helix structure, though she was largely uncredited at the time.
Who is Rosalind Franklin?
She was a prominent suffragist and women`s rights activist who co-founded the National Woman Suffrage Association.
Who is Susan B. Anthony?
She is an American professional tennis player who was the youngest player to qualify for Wimbledon in 2019. She captured her first Grand Slam singles title at the U.S. Open in 2023.
Who is Coco Gauff?
This poet, actress, and civil rights activist authored I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.
Who is Maya Angelou?
She was recognized by Guinness World Records as the female entertainer with the longest television career and she also portrayed Rose Nylund on The Golden Girls.
Who is Betty White?
She developed the first compiler for a computer programming language and pioneered machine-independent programming languages.
Who is Grace Hopper?
This abolitionist and women`s rights activist delivered the famous "Ain`t I a woman?" speech.
Who is Sojourner Truth?
This athlete overcame polio to become the first American woman to win three gold medals in track and field at a single Olympics.
Who is Wilma Rudolph?
A 20th-century American poet, she was the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.
Who is Edna St. Vincent Millay?
In 1964, she became the first Japanese-American woman elected to the House of Representatives.
Who is Patsy Mink?