Social Reform
Roe v. Wade was one of the most controversial cases in Supreme Court History covering what women's right?
A. Education
B. Employment
C. Birth Control
D. Abortion
What is abortion?
Jeanette Rankin was the first woman elected to what?
A. Governer
B. Mayor
C. Supreme Court Judge
D. US Congress
What is the US Congress?
Who was the first female prime minister of Britain?
Who is Margaret Thatcher?
How many girls are out of school worldwide?
A. 170 million
B. 150 million
C. 130 million
D. 100 million
What is 130 million?
What is our club name?
What is Girl Up at Pitt?
When did the #MeToo movement go viral?
A. 2009
B. 2015
C. 2017
D. 2012
When is 2017?
Who was the first woman to run for President?
A. Sonia Johnson
B. Victoria Woodhull
C. Linda Jenness
D. Belva Ann Lockwood
Who is Victoria Woodhull?
(ran in 1872)
The UN’s HeForShe movement, which brings together one half of humanity in support of the other, was spearheaded by which actress?
a. Emma Watson
b. Kate Winslet
c. Thandie Newton
Who is Emma Watson?
For the ninth year in a row, which country is the world’s most gender-equal?
A. Greenland
B. Iceland
C. Switzerland
D. Ireland
Where is Iceland?
What does the hashtag #bringbackourgirls refer to?
A. The call to stop child marriage
B. The abduction of nearly 300 school girls in Chibok, Nigeria
C. The campaign to stop child labour
What is B?
In how many countries can husbands legally prevent their wives from working?
A. 4
B. 7
C. 18
D. 15
What is 18?
The 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution gave women the right to vote and passed in which year?
A. 1920
B. 1937
C. 1917
D. 1930
When is 1920?
In 1849, Elizabeth Blackwell became the first woman to:
A. Own a Business
B. Earn a medical degree in the US
C. Be ordained a minister
D. Win a gold medal in the Olympics
What is earning a medical degree in the US?
Most women and girls alive today who have undergone Female Genital Mutilation were cut before what age?
A. 5 years old
B. 10 years old
C. 15 years old
D. 7 years old
What is 5 years old?
What country made feminist history when women outnumbered men in the legal profession?
a. Scotland
b. Ireland
c. Japan
What is Ireland?
In what country did women protest being told not to smile in public by flooding Twitter with images of themselves smiling?
a. Australia
b. Turkey
c. India
What is Turkey?
At a December 2014 White House press conference, President Obama made history when he: ?
a. Made First Lady Michelle Obama the head of the White House’s Council on Women and Girls.
b. Read a poem that he penned about feminism.
c. Intentionally called on only women reporters.
What is intentionally calling on only women reporters?
Who is the Executive Director of Girl Up?
A. Melissa Kilby
B. Veronica Massey
C. Julie Willig
D. Beth Nervig
Who is Melissa Kilby?
Domestic violence is not yet considered a crime in more than?
A. 100 countries
B. 50 countries
C. 25 countries
D. 20 countries
What is 20 countries?
When was Girl Up founded?
A. 2009
B. 2012
C. 2010
D. 2006
What is 2010?
Which of the following empowering quotes was said by Emma Watson in her iconic 2015 speech to the United Nations?
A. "As soon as a woman gets to an age where she has opinions and she's vital and she's strong, she's systematically shamed into hiding under a rock."
B. "Beating women is not cultural, it's criminal and it needs to be addressed and treated as such."
C. "We cannot all succeed when half of us are held back."
D. "It is time that we all see gender as a spectrum instead of two sets of opposing ideals."
What is D?
Which country was the first to grant women the right to vote?
A. Iceland
B. Australia
C. New Zealand
D. Canada
Who at a women’s convention in 1851, this abolitionist and former slave famously posed the question, “Ain’t I a woman?” highlighting her experience as a black woman in America.
Who is Sojourner Truth?
Globally, how many women and girls alive today were married before their 18th birthday?
A. 750 million
B. 500 million
C. 250 million
D. 650 million
What is 750 million?
When did the Olympic Games include both men and women in every sporting event?
A. 2012
B. 2002
C. 1998
D. 2005
What is 2012?