Women in STEM
She joined the Office of Naval Research in 1946 to promote government funding for scientific research and encouraged women to engage in math research as Dean of Graduate Studies at CUNY?
Who is Mina Rees
She ran for US President on Equal Rights Party in 1884 and 1888 and was an American delegate to the first world peace Congress in Paris in 1889?
Who is Belva Lockwood
She was the first Black woman elected to congress and in 1972 she was the first Black woman to run for a president primary? Her campaign slogan was "Unbought and Unbossed"
Who is Shirley Chisolm
August 26th is celebrated as Women’s Equality Day to commemorate.... ?
What is the anniversary of women winning the right to vote
She organized and performed in a series of Freedom Concerts to raise funds for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. The concerts allowed her to combine her love of music with her life's work of ending discrimination.
Who is Coretta Scott King
She was an army surgeon in the Civil War and won the Congressional Medal of Honor; and worked for dress reform, declaring “corsets are coffins”?
Who is Dr. Mary Walker
She was the famous suffragist who joined Jane Addams in 1915 in founding the Woman’s Peace Party at a meeting of 3000 women in Washington DC?
Who is Carrie Chapman Catt
She wrote the poem "The Hill We Climb" that she read at Joe Biden's presidential inauguration.
The year women in the United States win the right to vote?
What is 1920
She is a former American astronaut who logged more than 673 hours and 11 million miles in space and orbited the earth 445 times on three Space Shuttle flights in the 1990s.
Who is Jan Davis
She 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?
Who is Lady Ada Lovelace
She joined 49 other Congress members in voting against entry into World War I; was the only member to vote against World War II and organized a Brigade which demonstrated against the Vietnam War in 1968?
Who is Jeannette Rankin
She was a civil rights activist and President of the Arkansas NAACP who advised the nine high school students who integrated the Little Rock public schools in 1957?
Who is Daisy Lee May Bates
The term suffragist is derived from...?
What is the Latin word “suffragium,” meaning the right or privilege to vote
Her 1955 arrest in Montgomery for refusing to give up her bus seat to a white man sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott and set in motion a chain of events that resulted in ground-breaking civil rights legislation
Who is Rosa Parks
She improved war-time gas masks, invented “invisible” (nonreflective) glass, received other military patents, and was the first woman to earn a Ph.D. in physics from Cambridge University in 1926?
Who is Katharine Blodgett
She was an organizer of the Woman’s Peace Party, a leader of American Union Against Militarism, and latter co-founded the ACLU?
Who is Crystal Eastman
She was the first black female newspaper publisher and editor in North America (in Ontario, Canada), and the first black woman to enroll in law school ( Howard University)?
Who is Mary Ann Shadd Cary
The number of other countries that had already guaranteed women’s right to vote before the campaign was won in the United States?
What is 16
New Zealand (1893), Australia (1902), Finland (1906), Norway (1913), Denmark (1915), USSR (1917), Canada (1918), Germany (1918), Poland (1918), Austria (1919), Belgium (1919), Great Britain (1919), Ireland (1919), Luxembourg (1919), the Netherlands (1919), Sweden (1919)
She is an educator and civil rights activist who gained notoriety in the turbulence of the late 1960s as a member of the Communist Party and associate of members of the civil rights group the Black Panther Party.
She is the author of Silent Spring and other books on the environmental protection of the world?
Who is Rachel Carson
She protested nuclear weapons with the Committee for Nonviolent Action in 1983, and was imprisoned where she “Prison Notes”?
Who is Barbara Deming
She was the first African-American woman to serve in the U.S. Cabinet – as Secretary of Housing and Urban Development under President Carter in 1977, and then served as Secretary of Health and Human Services in 1979?
Who is Patricia Roberts Harris
What was the first country that granted women the right to vote?
What is New Zealand
These 3 women have received the nation's highest civilian awards. The Congressional Medal of Freedom, the Congressional Gold Medal, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Who is Helen Keller, Rosa Parks, and Harper Lee