Inventors
Inventor of Chocolate Chip Cookies
Who is Ruth Wakefield?
This aviator was the first female pilot to fly across the Atlantic and the 16th woman to be issued a pilot's license in the United States
Amelia Earhart
Co- founder of Mattel, and inventor of the Barbie Doll Empire
Who is Ruth Handler?
Co-founder of the National Woman Suffrage Association, fought hard for gender equality and women’s right to vote.
Who is Susan B. Anthony
Inventor whose groundbreaking work produced the first effective treatment for Hansens disease better known as Leprosy.
Who is Alice Ball?
A mother and daughter invented this psychological test, where participants answer an introspective self-report questionnaire. The result takes the form of 16 types, indicating the psychological preferences of the participant.
Who are Katherine Cook Briggs and her daughter Isabel Briggs Myers?
Due to popularity from her popular talk show which turned her into the first Female Black American Billionaire
Who is Oprah Winfrey
The first woman elected to the United States Congress, representing Montana in 1917.
Who is Jeannette Rankin?
In 1919, this inventor, created a system of gas-powered central heating system.
Who is Alice Parker
Who is Sally Ride?
Known for her role in West Side Story, this actress was the first Hispanic woman to win an Oscar and one of the few to achieve EGOT status.
Who is Rita Moreno
She became the first Black woman to be elected to Congress. The Brooklyn-born activist and political leader later entered the 1975 Democratic presidential race—the first woman and the first Black American to do so.
Who is Shirley Chisolm
Invented Kevlar polymer in 1965, which has saved countless lives
Vidis Finbogadottir was the first female president in the world in 1980 and president of what country?
What is Iceland
She is known as the God Mother or Rock and Roll
Sister Rosetta Tharpe
In 1981, she became the first woman elected to the Supreme Court