Women & Wellness
Women are about twice as likely as men to be diagnosed with this mood disorder, which affects mood, sleep, and interest in daily activities.
What is depression.
This German psychoanalyst challenged Freud's male centric theories and founded feminist psychology
Who is Karen Horney?
What year were women first officially allowed to run the Boston Marathon, after years of being barred from the race?
What is 1972?
This scientist’s X-ray images of DNA were crucial to discovering the double helix, but Watson and Crick received most of the credit.
Who is Rosalind Franklin?
This scandinavian country offers parents about 480 days of paid parental leave that can be shared between both parents.
What is Sweden
Women make up about 90% of diagnosed cases of this eating disorder characterized by extreme food restriction and intense fear of gaining weight?
What is anorexia nervosa
This Pakistani activist survived a Taliban assassination attempt became the youngest Nobel Peace Prize laureate at age 17 in 2014, and co-founded a global fund supporting girl's education
Who is Malala Yousafzai?
What year did the Equal Credit Opportunity Act allow women in the U.S. to open credit cards and get loans in their own name without a male co-signer?
What is 1974?
This scientist helped develop radium and polonium research with her husband Pierre, but early reports sometimes credited him more prominently for their discoveries.
Who is Marie Curie?
Among wealthy nations, this country is notable for not guaranteeing nay federall mandated paid maternity leave.
What is the United States
In the 19th century, doctors frequently diagnosed women with this vague condition blamed on emotional instability, which was later recognized as rooted in gender bias in medicine?
What is hysteria
This New York activist launches the Me Too movement in 2006 as a youth program maimed at addressing rampant sexual violence in her community?
Who is Tarana Burke?
What year did the Pregnancy Discrimination Act make it illegal for employers to fire or refuse to hire someone because they were pregnant?
What is 1978?
This mathematician worked at NASA calculating flight trajectories for early space missions, though male engineers often received the public credit. Her story was later featured in Hidden Figures.
Who is Katherine Johnson?
Under the family and medical leave act, employees may take up to this many weeks of unpaid leave for the birth of a child
What is 12 weeks
The neurodevelopmental disorder is believed to be significantly underdiagnosed in girls and women because early research and diagnostic criteria were based mostly on boys
What is autism spectrum disorder
This leader of the second-wave feminist movement co-founded New York magazine, and helped launch the National Women's Political Caucus
Who is Gloria Steinem?
What year did Columbia University officially begin admitting women to its undergraduate program?
What is 1983?
This English mathematician wrote what is considered the first computer program, though her work wasn’t fully appreciated until the 20th century.
Who is Ada Lovelace?
Passed in 1933, this US federal law gauarantees eligible workers up to 12 weeks of unpaid job protected leave for childbirth or family medical reasons.
What is the Family and Medical Leave Act
In the mid-20th century, this controversial brain surgery was widely used to treat mental illness, and women made up majority of patients despite not representing the majority of psychiatric diagnoses?
What is a lobotomy
This self-described "Black, lesbian, feminist, socialist, mother, poet" used her writing and activism to confront injustice and oppression in all forms.
Who is Audre Lorde?
What year did Victoria Woodhull become the first woman to run for president of the United States?
What is 1872?
This British chemist helped discover the structure of vitamin B12 and insulin using X-ray crystallography, though the field often credited male colleagues more prominently.
Who is Dorothy Hodgkin?
About 1 in 4 women in the United States return to work within this short time period after giving birth, often due to lack of paid leave
What is two weeks