Women for Peace
Youngest Nobel Peace Prize Winner
Malala Yousafzai
Who is the author of Silent Spring and other books on the environmental protection of the world
Rachel Carson
Credited with the passing of the first anti-discrimination bill in the United States, was the president of the Alaska Native Sisterhood
Elizabeth Peratrovich
Best known for her self-portraits, this Mexican painter is a feminist, disability, LGBTQ, and communist icon
Frida Kahlo
Edith Cummings was both the first female athlete and the first golfer to appear on the cover in this magazine in 1924
Time
famous suffragist who joined Jane Addams in 1915 in founding the Woman’s Peace Party at a meeting of 3000 women in Washington DC
Carrie Chapman Catt
Was the first computer programmer (1833), largely self-taught in math, for whom the programming language ADA was named by the Department of Defense in 1977
Lady Ada Lovelace
printed the first copy of the Declaration of Independence that included the signers’ names
Mary Kathrin Goddard
Known as the Queen of Jazz, her first hit was "A-Tisket, A-Tasket"
Ella Fitzgerald
This female tennis player was a serious advocate for equal pay at Wimbledon, and successfully went on to become the first women’s champion to get equal prize money
Venus Williams
Wrote international best-seller “Lay Down Your Arms” in 1889, was president of Austrian Society for the Friends of Peace and was the first woman to be granted the Nobel Peace Prize in 1905
Bertha von Suttner
Discovered a comet named for her in 1847, taught astronomy at Vassar, and was the first woman elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Maria Mitchell
Daughter and granddaughter of Paiute Indian chiefs from Nevada, she lobbied Congress, wrote extensively, and traveled across country during the late 1800s lecturing on the hardships brought upon Native Americans by the U.S. Government
Sarah Winnemucca
This Latin pop star won the Grammy Lifetime Achievement award in 2016
Celia Cruz
In the 2019 FIFA Women’s World Cup, U.S. player Alex Morgan went viral on social media after scoring against England because she pretended to do this as a celebration
sip tea (british style)
won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1976 with a friend for their efforts against violence in Northern Ireland
Mairead Corrigan Maguire
biophysicist who developed standards for radiation protection, and established techniques for treating tumors with radiation and X-rays
Edith Quimby
the first black Congresswoman, beginning in 1968; and who in 1972 ran for President and won 151 delegates at the Democratic Convention?
Shirley Chisholm
First actress of Asian descent to win an Oscer
Vivien Leigh
voted as the greatest female athlete of the 20th century by “Sports Illustrated” in 2000
Jackie Joyner-Kersee
won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1931, was first president from 1919 to 1935 of the Women’s International League of Peace and Freedom and was called an unpatriotic subversive by press and the US government
Jane Addams
Expanded the theory that the Appalachian area was where plants survived during the Ice Age and wrote the classic Deciduous Forests of EasternNorth America in 1950
E. Lucy Braun
First woman to run for President
Victoria Woodhull
First African-American woman to win the Pulitzer prize for her book "The Warmth of Other Suns"
Isabel Wilkerson
The first year that women competed in every sport at the Olympics? Hint; it was in the 21st century
2012