Science
In total, 73 women have been to this "last frontier," starting with the first, Valentina Tereshkova, in 1963.
Space
She is the current Vice-President of the United States, and the first woman to ever hold that office.
Kamala Harris
This important activist in the Civil Rights Movement refused to give up her seat on the bus to a white passenger in 1955.
Rosa Parks
Mary Shelley was an English author who published her novel about a famous monster when she was just 20 years old. But remember, originally it's the scientist who has this name:
Frankenstein
Her fans are called Swifties.
Taylor Swift
Rosalind Franklin was a British chemist whose work was essential to the discovery of the structure of deoxyribonucleic acid, also called by this 3-letter acronym:
DNA
She was the Chancellor of Germany from 2005-2021.
Angela Merkel
This 21-year-old Swedish environmental activist started a school strike for the climate in 2018.
Greta Thunberg
Greta Gerwig directed this big summer of 2023 movie about a brand of dolls.
Barbie
In the TV show, she leads a double life. She was called Hannah Montana in public, but her real name was this:
Miley Cyrus
Ada Lovelace (1815-1852) was an English mathematician who worked on the "Analytical Engine." It wasn't just a calculator! Today we'd use this word to describe it:
She was the first women to run for President of the United States as the candidate for one of the two major parties.
Hillary Clinton
This former slave and abolitionist helped more than 70 slaves travel North to freedom on the Underground Railroad.
Harriet Tubman
This Mexican artist is famous for her self-portraits, folk elements, and surrealistic style.
Frida Kahlo
Arethra Franklin spells a very important 7-letter word in the 1965 Soul song.
Respect
Jane Goodall is an English primatologist and is the world's foremost expert on this animal, which she has studied for more than 60 years.
the Chimpanzee
Cleopatra
Zitkala-Ša was a member of the Yakton-Dakota people. She was a writer and activist who criticized Indian boarding schools in the United States. She fought for the rights of i__________ peoples.
Indigenous
This famous Chilean writer is known for her magical realism style. She wrote The House of the Spirits, or at least that's what we call it in English.
This Colombian singer of Lebanese descent is sometimes called the "Queen of Latin Music," but she can also speak 6 languages.
Shakira
She was a Polish physicist and chemist who studied radioactivity. She is still the only person ever to win 2 Nobel Prizes in 2 different fields.
Marie Curie
(Maria Salomea Skłodowska-Curie)
Corazon Aquino helped overthrow the dictatorship of Ferdinand Marcos, before she became President of this Asian country in 1986.
The Philippines.
Filipino journalist Maria Ressa won the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize for her journalism about President Rodrigo Duterte. She is a strong opponent of false information in media also known by this two word name.
Sanda Cisneros' The House on Mango Street is a modern classic of Chicano literature, literature which is about these people:
Mexican Americans
Dolly Parton wrote this country song about under-appreciated women working 8 hours a day.
"9 to 5"