Women's History Month
International Women's day is celebrated on this day
March 8th
First woman Vice President of the United States
Kamala Harris
First woman to to win a Nobel Prize, and only woman to win two Nobel Prizes
Marie Curie
The first American Woman in space
Sally Ride
Barbadian billionaire and entrepreneur
Rihanna
The year that Women's History Day became Women's History Week
1978
The year women won the right to vote
1920
Youngest person to win a Nobel Prize
Malala Yousafzai
First American woman to pass the test to be an astronaut
Geraldyn "Jerrie" Cobb
First Asian actress to win an Oscar for best actress
Michelle Yeoh
The year when Women's History Week became Women's History month in March
1987
Wyoming Territory
First woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize
Jane Addams
The film Hidden Figures features 3 Female African American mathematicians who worked for this organization during the Space Race
NASA
First woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean, holding many other records, disappeared on an attempt to be the first circumnavigation of the world by woman on aeroplane
Amelia Earhart
The 2023 theme of Women's History Month
Celebrating Women Who Tell Our Stories
First woman to serve on the Supreme Court of the United States
Sandra Day O'Connor
This woman was 2019 Time's Person of the Year for her environmental activism
Greta Thunberg
In 1950, this woman became to first African-American to win the Pulitzer Prize
Gwendolyn Brooks
The "Queen of All Media" and was the world's first black billionaire
Oprah Winfrey
The year the first Women's History day was celebrated in 1909 on this day, commemorating the one-year anniversary of garment workers' strikes
February 28
Where was the first Women's Rights Convention held?
First woman to be inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame
Aretha Franklin
First female governor of a U.S. State, elected in Wyoming in 1924
Nellie Tayloe Ross
First woman to start a company and the first black millionaire
Madam C.J. Walker