Women in Science
This researcher and anthropologist worked with chimpanzees and revolutionized our understanding of their intelligence.
Who is Jane Goodall?
This famous female poet resided in Amherst, MA.
Who is Emily Dickinson?
This pioneer fought for the right for women to vote alongside Elizabeth Stanton.
Who is Susan B. Anthony?
This woman has the most Grammys of all time.
Who is Beyonce?
This month is when Women’s History Month is celebrated.
What is March?
She was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize for the discovery of the elements radium and polonium.
Who is Marie Curie?
This test measures the representation of women in literature by checking if two named women in a story have conversations about something other than a man.
What is the Bechdel Test?
This was the association that Susan B. Anthony co-founded.
What is the National Women’s Suffrage Association?
This woman has won the most Olympic gold medals for the U.S.
Who is Katie Ledecky?
The very first Women’s History Week was celebrated in 1978 in this U.S. state.
What is California?
She was the famous marine biologist who wrote Silent Spring, a revolutionary book that launched the environmental movement.
Who is Rachel Carson?
This novel was groundbreaking during the Victorian era because it was dark, intense, and written by a woman.
What is Wuthering Heights?
This was the first national women’s political organization in the U.S.
What is The Women’s Loyal National League?
This artist became the first woman in Grammy history to win Album of the Year four times.
Who is Taylor Swift?
March was chosen because it includes this important day on March 8.
What is International Women’s Day?
Alongside Watson and Crick, this woman was robbed of a Nobel Prize for her part in discovering the structure of DNA and RNA.
Who is Rosalind Franklin?
These 3 Victorian-era sisters all wrote under male pen names when publishing their novels to avoid prejudice against female authors.
Who is the Brontë sisters?
Before becoming the second woman appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court, she co-founded the ACLU’s Women’s Rights Project.
Who is Ruth Bader Ginsburg?
This fashion editor served as editor-in-chief of Vogue beginning in 1988 and became one of the most powerful figures in fashion media.
Who is Anna Wintour?
This U.S. president issued the first presidential proclamation declaring National Women’s History Week
Who is Jimmy Carter?
She was the first black female engineer at NASA, whose mathematical contributions to the space race were made widely known by the 2016 film Hidden Figures.
Who is Mary Jackson?
In addition to being the first Black woman to successfully sue a white man, this anti-slavery and suffrage advocate delivered an influential speech in 1851 that has been widely mistranscribed.
Who is Sojourner Truth?
She was the first woman to run for president in the U.S.
Who is Victoria Woodhull?
This television producer created How to Get Away with Murder and became the first Black woman to create three television dramas that reached 100 episodes.
Who is Shonda Rhimes?
This is the year that Women’s History Month became an annual observance after Congress passed public law 100-9.
When is 1987?