She created one of America's first settlement houses, the Hull House, in 1889, and won the Nobel Prize for her work in 1931.
Who is Jane Addams?
100
The government used this character to foster patriotism and encourage women to join the war effort.
Who is Rosie the Riveter?
100
The reason many women lost their jobs at the end of World War II.
Their jobs were given to men returning from the war.
100
This superhero was created in 1941 by D.C. Comics to promote strong, patriotic, and intelligent women.
Who is Wonder Woman?
100
Young women who wore shorter skirts, bobbed their hair, and enjoyed more freedom than the women in the generation before them.
What are flappers?
200
She was the first woman to be elected to the Senate.
Who is Hattie Caraway?
200
Female engineers and chemists were recruited to work on this project.
What is the Manhattan Project?
200
The first African American woman to win an Olympic gold medal.
Who is Alice Coachman?
200
Hattie McDaniel became the first African American to win an Oscar for her role in this movie.
What is Gone With the Wind?
200
She was a prominent figure in the Harlem Renaissance and wrote Their Eyes Were Watching God.
Who is Zora Neale Hurston?
300
She helped FDR start the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression.
Who is Frances Perkins?
300
During WWII, most women made less than this percentage of men's wages.
What is 50%?
300
She, along with Rosa Parks, refused to give up her seat on the bus, leading the the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
Who is Claudette Colvin?
300
Women became able to play professional baseball when this was founded in 1943.
What is the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League?
300
It has also been called the Lucretia Mott Amendment and the Alice Paul Amendment.
What is the Equal Rights Amendment?
400
This 1938 act set a federal minimum wage without regard to gender.
What is the Fair Labor Standards Act?
400
Mary McLeod Bethune was an organizer of this campaign for civil rights during World War II.
What is the Double V campaign?
400
Eleanor Roosevelt chaired the committee responsible for this UN resolution.
What is the Universal Declaration of Human Rights?
400
She started her career in New York, but moved to Paris and became one of the most popular performers in Europe.
Who is Joesephine Baker?
400
She founded the American Birth Control League in 1921.
Who is Margaret Sanger?
500
This organization, founded in 1935, fought for equal rights for women and African Americans.
What is the National Council of Negro Women?
500
The percentage of the US workforce that was female by the end of World War II.
What is 37%?
500
Often considered the greatest female golfer of all time, this women founded the Ladies Professional Golf Association and was named Woman Athlete of the Half Century in 1950.
Who is Babe Didrikson?
500
The amount of Grammy Awards won by Ella Fitzgerald.