Women's History Month

Women For Peace

100

Started Mother's Day as an annual anti-war event, first meeting in 1873

Julia Ward Hower

200

Ran for US President on Equal Rights Party in 1884 and 1888 and was an American delegate to the first world peace Congress in Paris 1889

Belva Lockwood

300

Organizer of the Woman's Peace Party and co-founded the ACLU

Crystal Eastman

400

Protested nuclear weapons with the Committee for Nonviolent Action and wrote "Prison Notes" 

Barbara Deming

500

Founder of the Women's Institute for Freedom of the Press in 1972

Donna Allen

Women in STEM

100

Photographed wildlife in Africa and worked for preservation of animals, especially in the Congo

Mary Jobe Akeley

200

Famous mathematician, astronomer, and neo-Platonic philospher in Alexandria who designed an astrolabe and a plan sphere

Hypatia

300

Army surgeon in the Civil War and won the Congressional Medal of Honor, also famous for saying "corsets are coffins"

Dr. Mary Walker

400

Spurred the rise of molecular biology and published 192 monographs at Smith College

Dorothy Wrinch

500

First African-American woman to earn a degree of Doctor of Dental Surgery in 1890

Dr. Ida Gray

Women in Politics

100

Led a 125-mile march of child workers from Pennsylvania to President Theodore Roosevelt's home on Long Island

Mary Harris Jones or "Mother Jones"

200

First woman of Black and South Asian descent to hold federal executive office

Kamala Harris

300

Co-founded the National Farmworkers Association and created the catch phrase "Sí Se Puede!"

Dolores Huerta

400

Last reigning monarch of the Hawaiian Kingdom

Queen Lili'uokalani

500

First Lady who wrote a daily newspaper column and made frequent radio broadcasts

Eleanor Roosevelt

Women in Sports

100

First American woman to win three gold medal in track and field

Wilma Glodean Rudolph

200

First black woman to win a tennis championship at Wimbledon and the U.S. Open

Althea Gibson

300

Female athlete who is considered "the fastest woman of all time" and set the record for the 100 and 200 meter race in 1988

Delorez Florence "Flo-Jo"Griffith Joyner

400

Simone Biles, Gabby Douglad, Aly Raisman, Laurie Hernandez, and Madison Kocian are known as the "Final Five" for this U.S. Olympic team who won gold at the 2016 Summer Olympics

Gymnastics

500

In 1967, Katherin Switzer became the first woman to complete this famous U.S. distance race

The Boston Marathon

Women in Entertainment

100

Holds the records for most Grammy's ever at 32

Beyonce

200

Starred in the top 2 most grossing movies of all time

Zoe Saldana (Avatar and Avengers: Endgame)

300

This musician received an honorary doctorate from Willamette and is known as the Queen of Country

Dolly Parton

400

This song had the most-searched google lyrics in 2020 

WAP - Cardi B

500

First woman director to win an Oscar

Kathryn Bigelow