First in Their Field
She was the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean.
Who is Amelia Earhart?
Julia Roberts won an Oscar for playing a real-life legal assistant who fought a California pollution case.
What is Erin Brockovich?
This board game, where tycoons buy up properties & bankrupt foes, originated from Elizabeth Magie's 'The Landlord's Game'.
What is Monopoly?
This Mary Anderson creation from 1903 keeps drivers safe in the rain.
What are windshield wipers?
Clara Barton worked as this during the Civil War, delivering supplies to soldiers.
What is a nurse?
She was the first woman to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court.
Who is Sandra Day O'Connor?
This 1992 film starring Geana Davis & Tom Hanks steps up to the plate with the true story of the trailblazing All-American Girls Professional Baseball League.
What is A League Of Their Own?
In the early days of animation at this movie studio, a team of skilled women artists worked tirelessly behind the scenes, hand-coloring celluloid frames, yet were dismissively referred to as 'the girls in the basement'.
What is The Walt Disney Company?
Ruth Handler revolutionized playtime in 1959 with this doll named after her daughter.
Clara Barton collaborated with this famous suffragist and abolitionist, who co-founded the National Woman Suffrage Association.
Who is Susan B. Anthony?
She was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize (and the first person to win two!)
Who is Marie Curie?
This 2016 film follows three Black female mathematicians at NASA during the 1960s Space Race.
What is Hidden Figures?
Lise Meitner discovered nuclear fission, but her lab partner took credit and won this coveted prize.
What is the Nobel Prize?
Tired of hauling large ice blocks into her house, Florence Parpart patented the first modern version of this kitchen appliance in 1914.
What is the electric refrigerator?
Barton was nicknamed this for her bravery during the Civil War.
What is "The Angel of the Battlefield"?
This woman became the first female prime minister of the U.K. in 1979.
Who is Margaret Thatcher?
Angela Bassett earned an Oscar nod for portraying Tina Turner in this 1993 film.
What is What's Love Got To Do With It?
Rosalind Franklin’s X-ray images were key to discovering this iconic structure, but Watson and Crick took the credit, for which they won the Nobel Prize.
What is the DNA double-helix?
Bette Nesmith Graham invented this office correction tool in 1956 after struggling with typos.
What is Liquid Paper/White Out?
Barton’s 1904 memoir The Story of My Childhood focused on her early years in this New England state.
What is Massachusetts?
Mary Eliza Mahoney broke barriers in 1879 as the first Black woman to earn this professional credential in the U.S.
What is Registered Nurse?
Salma Hayek stars in this 2002 biopic about a Mexican painter known for her surreal self-portraits.
What is Frida?
Ancient scourge mentioned in the Bible, the Quran & Hindu scriptures, this chronic bacterial infection causes skin lesions, nerve damage & disfigurement; Alice Ball developed its first effective treatment, only to have her work published by a colleague under his own name.
What is leprosy?
This Ann Tsukamoto 1991 patent revolutionized medicine by isolating these life-saving cells.
What are stem cells?
Barton advocated for the U.S. to ratify this 1864 treaty protecting wounded soldiers—finally signed in 1882.
What is the Geneva Convention?