Milestones
The year that women earn the right to vote and the 19th amendment passed
What is 1920?
The actress who delivered the powerful monologue highlighting the unending rules surrounding womanhood in the 2023 Barbie movie
Who is America Ferrera?
The youngest woman and Latina to ever serve in Congress
Who is AOC (Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez)?
The first woman to serve as the Vice President of the United States
Who is Kamala Harris?
One of the greatest tennis players of all time, winning a total of 23 Grand Slam singles titles
Who is Serena Williams?
Supreme Court Justice who successfully fought against gender discrimination for 27 years
Who is Ruth Bader Ginsburg?
In August 2020, an album by an unnamed artist broke the record for the most streams on Spotify in a single day by a female artist with her surprise release
Who is Taylor Swift?
The highly successful creator and showrunner of numerous prominent television series, including "Grey's Anatomy" and "Scandal"
Who is Shonda Rhimes?
The Polish physicist and chemist who conducted pioneering research on radioactivity and was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Who is Marie Curie?
The American gymnast who won four gold medals at the 2016 Rio Olympics, making her the most decorated American gymnast
Who is Simone Biles?
The first woman to serve on the supreme court
Who is Sandra Day O’Connor?
In 2018, the American singer who became the youngest solo artist to headline Coachella at the age of 25
Who is Beyoncé?
Author of the novel "To Kill a Mockingbird," which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1961
Who is Harper Lee?
The woman who developed the theory of radioactivity and coined the term "radioactivity"
Who is Marie Curie?
The historic women's rights convention held in 1848, often regarded as the beginning of the women's suffrage movement in the United States
What is the Seneca Falls Convention?
The first woman to run for President of the United States, representing the Equal Rights Party in 1872
Who is Victoria Woodhull?
The American singer-songwriter holds the record for the most weeks at number one on the Billboard Hot 100 by a female artist, with a total of 50 weeks
Who is Mariah Carey?
The first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, awarded in 1921 for her novel "The Age of Innocence"
Who is Edith Wharton?
The first woman to earn a Ph.D. in computer science
Who is Sister Mary Kenneth Keller?
The American athlete who won two gold medals and a silver in track and field at the 1932 Summer Olympics before turning to professional golf and winning 10 LPGA major championships
Who is Mildred Ella "Babe" Didrikson Zaharias
The first woman to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, inducted retrospectively in 1987
Who is Aretha Franklin?
Who is Matilda Joslyn Gage?
The first and only woman to have won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series, for her work on an episode of "The Handmaid's Tale" in 2017
Who is Reed Morano?
The American engineer and inventor who is credited with the invention of the windshield wiper, earning her the first patent for this device in 1903
Who is Mary Anderson?
In 2019, the first woman to win five titles at a single World Championships in Athletics, achieving this feat in Doha, Qatar
Who is Allyson Felix?