Women Around the World
Q: This Swedish citizen was in 9th grade when her speech during the plenary session of the 2018 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP24) went viral.[58] She commented that the world leaders present were "not mature enough to tell it like it is."
Who is Greta Thunburg?
Marie Curie is remembered for her discovery of radium and polonium, and her huge contribution to finding treatments for this ailment.
What is cancer?
This Broadway actress has won 6 Tony Awards and starred in the television show “The Good Wife” as attorney Liz Lawrence.
Who is Audra McDonald?
Physicist Dr. Chien-Shiung Wu received her PhD from UC Berkeley in 1940 and worked on this the nuclear research program during World War II.
What is the Manhattan Project?
A long-time women's rights activist, Lucy Stone was one of the first women in the US to refuse this marital tradition, which led to others to be termed "Lucy Stoners" and even to her being refused the right to vote.
What is adopting her husband's last name?
She was New Zealand's 40th prime minister and leader of the Labour Party from 2017 to 2023, whose administration was widely praised for its successful response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Who is Jacinda Arden?
This former First Lady became the US delegate to the United Nations, serving as chairman of the Commission on Human Rights.
Who is Eleanor Roosevelt?
Julia Ward Howe, famed writer, abolitionist and suffragist, the first woman elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1908 at age 88, may be most well-known for writing this famous song.
What is “The Battle Hymn of the Republic”?
This African American scientist and mathematician played a huge role in the Space Race, including calculating the trajectory for the 1969 Apollo 11 flight to the moon.
Who is Katherine Johnson?
Two months after she opened the first woman-run U.S. stock brokerage office in 1870, Victoria Woodhull announced her candidacy for this U.S. office.
What is President of the U.S.?
Baroness von Suttner of Austria authored the influential 1889 novel "Lay Down Your Arms,” which had 37 editions and was translated into 12 languages. She won this international award in 1905.
What is the Nobel Peace Prize?
Former Studio Executive Sheri Lansing was once a member of this University Board.
What is The UC Regents?
This autobiography by one of the most banned and celebrated authors of our time, Maya Angelou, covers challenging topics, including violence, racism, sexuality, and teen pregnancy.
What is "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings"?
Julia Morgan, the first woman architect licensed in California, used reinforced concrete so that many of the buildings she designed survived this Bay Area disaster.
What is the San Francisco 1906 earthquake and fire?
The first female co-anchor of a national network evening news program, she successfully interviewed more famous people than any journalist in history, including speaking with every single U.S. president since Johnson.
Who is Barbara Walters?
It is the home country of Malala Yousafzai, who was shot for standing up for the education of girls, and was the youngest person ever to receive a Nobel Peace Prize.
What is Pakistan?
Queen Liliuokalani, the first female monarch of Hawaii is known for writing this famous song.
What is "Aloha 'Oe" ?
Barred from singing in the Washington’s Constitution Hall because she was Black, her 1939 Easter Sunday concert on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial drew a crowd of 75,000.
Who is Marian Anderson?
Pilot Geraldyn "Jerrie" Cobb was the first woman to pass this intensive physical and psychological evaluation in the U.S. in 1961, but was not allowed to complete the following career training program due to her gender.
What is astronaut training?
This American abolitionist and women’s rights activist delivered her famous extemporaneous speech on women's rights, later known as “Ain’t I a Woman?” at the Ohio Women’s Right Convention in 1851.
Who is Sojourner Truth?
Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel, one of the most powerful women in history, earned a doctorate in 1986 for her thesis on this topic.
What is Quantum Chemistry?
Charlayne Hunter-Gault, American civil rights activist, journalist and former correspondent for NPR, CNN and PBS, is known for being one of the first African Americans to attend this Southern University.
What is The University of Georgia?
Maria Tallchief, the daughter of the Chief of the Osage Nation, is regarded as the greatest artist of this discipline born in America.
What is ballet?
It's the name of the coment discovered in 1847 by Maria Mitchell, who was the first female astronomer in the U.S., and the first American scientist to discover a comet.
What is "Miss Mitchell's Comet"?
The year that the Voting Rights Act passed, finally making it legal for ALL women in the U.S. to vote.
What is 1965?