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On February 25, 2022, President Joe Biden nominated this woman to become the 116th Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court. She is currently awaiting confirmation in the Senate.
Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson
This Grammy award-winning Atlanta native decided to take the "Midnight Train to Georgia".
Gladys Knight
In 2002, she served as the first woman director of the CDC.
Dr. Julie Louise Gerberding
On June 18, 1983, this astronaut and physicist became the first American woman to launch into space. At the age of 32, she was also the youngest American astronaut to have traveled to space.
Dr. Sally Ride
International Women's Day is celebrted on this date?
March 8th
This amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified on August 18, 1920, and granted American women the right to vote.
19th Amendment
*note- Voting Rights Act of 1965
Her 1982 novel “The Color Purple” won both the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize. Its motion picture adaptation, directed by Steven Spielberg, went on to be nominated for 11 Academy Awards.
Alice Walker
This British chemist is best known for discovering the molecular structures of DNA, RNA, viruses, coal, and graphite. While she made a critical impact on science, her work and contributions to the field are still rarely acknowledged as two men — James Watson and Francis Crick — are still most often credited with discovering the structure of DNA.
Dr. Rosalind Franklin (see video)
This "Hidden Figure" began working as a “human computer” to solved equations by hand during NASA’s early years. She calculated trajectories for Alan Shepard, the first man in space, and John Glenn, who asked that Johnson personally check the electronic computer's results.
Katherine Johnson
This Austrian-born American film actress and inventor invented frequency hopping. This technology would later become the basis for WiFi and Bluetooth technology.
Hedy Lamarr
She took office as the 64th U.S. Secretary of State on January 23, 1997, thus becoming the first female U.S. Secretary of State and the highest-ranking woman in the history of the U.S. government at the time of her appointment.
Madeleine Albright
Margaret Mitchell famously pinned this American Civil War-era novel. It was adapted into the 1939 film of the same name and went on to receive the Academy Award for Best Picture.
Gone With the Wind
This former NIH scientist was a leader in HIV research at the onset of the AIDS epidemic. She was the first to clone the virus and in the 1980s was the most-cited female scientist with nearly 7,800 citations.
Dr. Flossie Wong-Staal
Jessica Meir and Christina Koch performed the first all-female spacewalk in NASA history in what year?
October 18, 2019
This trailblazing African American mathematician built the geodetic model of the Earth that became the foundation for GPS. In 2018, she was inducted into the U.S. Air Force Space and Missile Pioneers Hall of Fame.
Dr. Gladys West
In 1972, she became the first woman to seek the Democratic nomination for President.
Shirley Chisholm (see video)
This youth group for girls was founded in Savannah, Georgia, in 1912. They prepare girls "to empower themselves and promote compassion, courage, confidence, character, leadership, entrepreneurship, and active citizenship through activities involving camping, community service, learning first aid and earning badges by acquiring practical skills.
Girl Scouts of the United States of America
This woman is still considered to be one of the world’s most prestigious cytogeneticists. In 1983, she won the Nobel Prize in Physiology for her discovery of the “jumping gene” or the ability of genes to change position on the chromosome.
Dr. Barbara McClintock
On June 13, 1963, she became the first woman to travel into space.
Valentina Tereshkova
She was the only woman engineer on a team of 40 to work in the top-secret Lockheed Skunk Works program in 1952 when the "space race" began.
Dr. Mary Golda Ross- Native American member of the Cherokee Nation (see video)
This Hawaiian-born, Japanese American woman became the first Japanese American (and overall WOC) to serve in the House of Representatives in 1956.
Patsy Matsu Takemoto Mink
This Georgia Peach is a member of the Georgia Music Hall of Fame and has been married to fellow Country Music star Garth Brooks since 2005.
Trisha Yearwood
Often referred to as "the First Lady of Physics,” this Chinese nuclear physicist contributed to the Manhattan Project and made history with an experiment that disproved the hypothetical law of conservation of parity.
Dr. Chien-Shiung Wu
In 1997, this Indian-born American astronaut and engineer was the first woman of Indian origin to go to space. Sadly, she perished on September 1st, 2003 in the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster along with six other crew members.
Dr. Kalpana Chawla
These six women programmed the first all-electronic programmable computer.
The ENIAC Programmers (see video)