The Firsts for Women
Women in STEM
Women in Sports
Women Around the World
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Who was the first woman to travel to space?
Valentina Tereshkova ( On 16 June 1963, Tereshkova was launched on a solo mission aboard the spacecraft Vostok 6. She spent more than 70 hours orbiting the Earth, two years after Yuri Gagarin's first human-crewed flight in space.)
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While half of the college-educated workforce are women, what percent make up the science and engineering workforce?
29%
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What was considered the first female sport?
Croquet (first sport to be played by both sexes in America)
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Who demanded that girls in Pakistan be allowed to receive an education and was later shot by a Taliban gunman but survived?
Malala Yousafzai
200
Who was the First woman to run in the presidential election?
Victoria Woodhull (a stockbroker, newspaper publisher, and champion of social reform who ran for the presidency in 1872, some 50 years before women throughout the United States had achieved the right to vote. )
200
What percentage of girls typically don't consider a career in STEM
57%
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Which sport was the first to hold a national championship for women?
Swimming in 1916
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Who worked closely with Susan B Anthony as the president of the National Women's Suffrage Association and wrote the Declaration of Sentiments as a call to arms for female equality?
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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Who was the first woman to fly a plane?
Amelia Earhart
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What percentage of women make up STEM industry CEOs?
3%
300
When were women allowed to participate in the Olympics?
The first time women made an entry in the Olympic Games was in Paris in 1900. 22 women competed in tennis, croquet, sailing, equestrian, and golf that year.
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Who was an African American abolitionist and women's rights activitst best known for her speech on racial inequalities, "Aint I a Woman?"
Sojourner Truth
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Who was the first woman to receive a nobel piece prize?
Marie Skłodowska Curie, a Polish-French physicist and chemist, was the first woman to receive a Nobel Prize and the only woman to receive two Nobel prizes. While studying uranium's rays, she discovered new elements and named them polonium and radium.
400
What percentage of women occupy construction-related jobs?
10%
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Which sport will now support equal pay for men and women at all tournaments?
Soccer
400
Who was the first woman to coach in the NFL?
Jen Welter (coach for the Arizona Cardinals)
500
Who was the first woman to sit in the supreme court?
Sandra Day O'Connor was the first woman to serve as a Supreme Court justice. During the 1980 presidential campaign, Ronald Reagan promised to nominate the first woman to the U.S. Supreme Court.
500
What percentage of mathematics and statistics students globally are women?
5%
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Who was the First women to be named "Sportsperson of the Year" by Sports Illustrated?
Billie Jean King (tennis player)
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Who was the first female UK Prime Minister?
Margaret Thatcher