California Women
The first female senator from California, Diane Feinstein, also served as the first female mayor of this city from 1978-1988.
What is San Francisco?
In overlooked research presented in 1856, scientist Eunice Newton Foote described how tubes of gas heated up when exposed to sunlight; thus she was the first person to document this climate phenomenon.
What is the greenhouse gas effect?
The first woman and African American to read the presidential inauguration poem, when she read her poem "On the Pulse of Morning" at Bill Clinton's inauguration in 1993.
Who is Maya Angelou?
Mariam Mirzakhani became the first girl on the Mathematical Olympics team from this country.
What is Iran?
In the TV series "The Big Bang Theory," Dr. Amy Fowler holds a Ph.D. in this field.
What is neurobiology?
Sally Ride - a Stanford University-trained physicist, became the first American woman in space in 1983 and the youngest U.S. astronaut as a crew member of this space shuttle.
What is Challenger?
Casio released a line of scientific classroom calculators in Spain, each illustrated with one of twelve famous women in science, including Marie Curie, Ada Lovelace, and this American mathematician who calculated and analyzed the flight paths of many spacecraft during her more than three decades with the U.S. space program.
Who is Katherine Johnson?
Brie Larson plays Elizabeth Zott in this book by Bonnie Garmus turned Apple TV series.
What is "Lessons in Chemistry?"
She did not start learning ballet until age 13 and in 2015 was the first African-American woman to be promoted to principal ballerina in the American Ballet Theatre company's history.
Who is Misty Copeland?
A leader in both the women's suffrage and civil rights movements, she co-owned and wrote for a newspaper, "Memphis Free Speech and Headlight".
Who is Ida B. Wells?
Delilah Beasley, historian, journalist and author in the early 20th century, wrote a weekly column about the Black experience in this Bay Area paper.
What is the Oakland Tribune?
Researcher Clarice Phelps of Oak Ridge National Laboratory helped discover this element, becoming the first Black woman involved in the discovery of a chemical element.
What is Tennessine / element 117?
Science fiction author NK Jemisin was the first author in history to win this literary award in 3 successive years for her famous "Broken Earth Trilogy."
What are the Hugo awards?
Junko Tabei was the first woman and only 36th person to complete this mountaineering feat in 1975.
What is climbing Mount Everest?
British suffragette Edith Margaret Garrud taught this martial art to her fellow suffragettes in the early 1900s to help them combat mistreatment during arrests.
What is jiu jitsu?
Charlotta Spears Bass was the first Black woman to be nominated for this national office in 1952, on the Progressive Party ticket.
What is Vice President of the United States?
This British physicist was honored in 2022 with a British Empire medal for authoring over 1750 Wikipedia entries on unknown female scientists.
Who is Jessica Wade?
Phillis Wheatly gained fame in both the American colonies and England as the first African American to do this in 1773.
What is publish a book of poetry?
The first female prime minister of India, Indira Gandhi, served in the position for a total of 15 years, but was ultimately assassinated by her own body guards in this year.
What is 1984?
in 2023 NPR covered South African trans activist Chedino Martin’s inspiring journey from being abandoned as a baby to winning this beauty pageant title in 2022.
What is the Miss Trans Africa pageant?
Known for her research on how senescent cells influence aging and cancer, this scientist started working at LBNL in 1991 in the Biosciences Area before joining the faculty at the Buck Institute in 2002.
Who is Dr. Judith Campisi?
Barbara McClintock is the only woman to have received, by herself (unshared), a Nobel prize for Medicine in 1983 for this discovery.
What is genetic transpostion?
Written in 1008 by Japanese noblewoman Murasaki Shikibu, this book is considered by many to be the world's first full-length novel.
What is "The Tale of Gengi"?
Heidi Nelson was this famous medical institution's first female surgeon, and was later named their chair of Surgery.
What is the Mayo Clinic?
Later known for her role in the French resistance during WWII, Josephine Baker became the first black woman to star in a major motion picture when she starred in this silent film in 1927.
What is "Siren of the Tropics"?