Women in Politics
This British prime minister was deemed the “Iron Lady” and helped guide Europe to the end of the Cold War.
Margaret Thatcher (1979-1990)
This African-American author’s most famous novel, published in 1937, is titled Their Eyes Were Watching God.
Zora Neale Hurston
This queen fought and defeated her brother, Ptolemy XIII, to gain control of ancient Egypt.
Cleopatra
She was the first woman to earn a medical degree in the United States.
Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell (1849)
This American tennis player has won twenty-three Grand Slams.
Serena Williams
She is the longest-serving -- and is still currently in office -- elected head-of-state in the world.
Angela Merkel (since 2005)
She was inspired to write her most famous work after a ghost story competition in 1816.
Mary Shelley (Frankenstein)
She was the commander of the French army in the fifteenth century but never participated in active combat.
Joan of Arc
She was known as the "Angel of the Battlefield" during the Civil War because of her service as a nurse during some of the worst battles.
Clara Barton
This was the first year women were allowed to compete in the Olympics.
1928
She was the first female Supreme Court justice.
Sandra Day O'Connor (1981)
Mary Anne Evans is the real name of this Victorian author.
George Eliot
She is famous for disguising herself as a man and fighting in the Revolutionary War.
Deborah Sampson
She was the first black woman to earn a medical degree in the United States.
Dr. Rebecca Lee Crumpler (1865)
This retired soccer player holds the record for international goals in both men’s and women’s soccer with one hundred eighty-four goals.
Abby Wambach
This U.S. state has had the most female governors.
Arizona (4)
Her first critically recognized work, Hospital Sketches, was inspired by her experience as a nurse in the Civil War.
Louisa May Alcott
This California waitress was the inspiration for the Rosie the Riveter campaign during World War II.
Naomi Parker Fraley
In 1869, the first seven women to matriculate from a British medical school graduated from this university.
The University of Edinburgh ("the Edinburgh Seven")
This American legislative act, passed in 1972, required sports to be accessible regardless of gender.
Title IX
Name all six female British monarchs.
1. Mary I (Mary Tudor)
2. Elizabeth I
3. Mary II
4. Queen Anne
5. Queen Victoria
6. Queen Elizabeth II
The first novel of this Zimbabwean author has been named as one of the top one hundred books that have changed the world.
Tsitsi Dangarembga (Nervous Conditions)
This first-century queen led an uprising against the Roman Empire’s occupation of what is now Great Britain.
Boadicea
This 1948 Wheaton alumna was a pediatrician whose research helped discover respiratory distress syndrome in premature infants.
Dr. Mary Ellen Avery
This movie, set during World War II, is about a professional women's baseball league.
A League of Their Own