Firsts in Women History
Who is Aretha Franklin?
Who is Halle Berry?
This woman commanded the Underground Railroad and led a Civil War raid
Who is Harriet Tubman?
This U.S. Navy rear admiral pioneered compilers and popularized "debugging"
Who is Grace Hopper?
This woman was the first to receive a perfect 10 in Olympic gymnastics at the 1976 Montreal Games
Nadia Comaneci
The first college to admit women in the U.S.
What is Oberlin College?
The first woman to win a Pulitzer Prize for fiction
Who is Edith Wharton?
This woman was the first to command a Space Shuttle mission
Who is Eileen Collins?
This engineer led Apollo's onboard flight software team and helped popularize the term "software engineering"?
Who is Margaret Hamilton?
This gymnast claims the highest-scoring women's floor gymnastics routine in Olympic history
Who is Simone Biles?
Who is Sirimavo Bandaranaike of Sri Lanka?
The first woman to win the Nobel Prize for Economics
Who is Elinor Ostrom?
This woman commanded armies in the first Persian invasion of Greece
Artemisia I of Caria
This nun was among the first U.S. women to earn a PhD in computer science
Who is Siter Mary Kenneth Keller?
This woman was the first to score a perfect 10 in the vault at the 1984 LA Olympics
Who is Mary Lou Retton?
The first woman to climb the Seven Summits, the highest peak on every continent
Who is Junko Tabei?
The first woman to win the Pritzker Architecture Prize
Who is Zaha Hadid?
The first woman to serve as the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
Mary Robinson
This network engineer created the Spanning Tree Protocol, foundational for Ethernet switching
Who is Radia Perlman?
This 96-year-old woman earned a near-perfect score in her first ever exam
Who is Karthyayani Amma?
The first woman to chair the United Nations General Assembly
Who is Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit?
The first woman to be awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom
Who is Ellen Wilson?
This Filipina guerrilla leader, sometimes called the “Joan of Arc of Leyte,” spied for U.S. forces in WWII?
Who is Remedios Paraiso-Gomez (Commander Liwayway)?
This computer scientist co-invented zero-knowledge proofs, reshaping cryptography
Who is Shafi Goldwasser?
Name this student from Pittsburgh who is among the 6 students out of 300,000 to earn a perfect score on the AP World History Modern Exam.
Who is Anna Delale-O'Connor?