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Mar 30, 2017 · From Amelia Earhart to Aretha Franklin, these photographs definitively prove that women have always been awesome.
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Nov 8, 2020 · Read and learn about 50 well-known and less well-known women that have made a significant impact on the world throughout history.
- Jane Austen (1775 –1817) You can thank Jane Austen for basically creating those rom-com books you love to read. In her teenage years during the early 1810s, she started writing her most famous novels, like Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility.
- Ada Lovelace (1815-1852) Ada Lovelace's genius was years before her time. As an English mathematician, she is credited with being the world's first computer programmer.
- Florence Nightingale (1820-1910) Florence Nightingale, a.k.a. Lady with the Lamp, was a British nurse who is credited as the founder of modern-day nursing.
- Nellie Bly (1864-1922) Nellie Bly basically set the standard for investigative journalism. At a time when women writers were confined to the society pages, Bly tackled more serious topics like mental health, poverty, and corruption in politics.
- Sojourner Truth, c. 1797-1883. Born a slave named Isabella Bomfree in New York, the National Women's History Museum reported that Sojourner Truth ran away in 1827 to an abolitionist family that helped her buy her freedom.
- Harriet Tubman, c. 1820-1913. After escaping slavery in 1849, Harriet Tubman (whose exact date of birth is unknown) helped hundreds of other slaves to freedom via a network of secret routes and safe houses known as the Underground Railroad.
- Florence Nightingale, 1820-1910. Whether you know her as "the Lady with the Lamp" or "the mother of nursing," chances are you already know a little something about Florence Nightingale.
- Susan B. Anthony, 1820-1906. When thinking of moments where history changed for women, it's hard not to think of women's suffrage. For women in the United States, the right to vote came thanks to the tireless work of suffragettes like Susan B. Anthony.
- Susan B. Anthony. Believing failure to be impossible, this New York disruptor is one of the main reasons ladies get to collect a sticker on election days in the United States.
- Anna Bissell. Although it was her husband who invented the carpet-sweeping machine in 1876 and founded Bissell, Anna Bissell became the CEO of the company in 1889, making her the first female CEO in America.
- Malala Yousafzai. Proving you can never be too young to stand up for what’s right, this Pakistani girl started to take on the Taliban at 11. When the group began seizing power in her hometown and attacking girls’ schools, she, then a student at the school her father founded, gave a speech defending her and all women’s right to an education.
- Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Sure, she was not the first female Supreme Court Justice—that would be Sandra Day O’Connor—but Ruth Bader Ginsburg was the second. Before taking the bench in 1993, she was a judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.
Jun 8, 2023 · From singers to scientists and athletes to activists, here are 130 amazing women who have changed the world for the better.
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Sep 7, 2017 · Watch Firsts, featuring candid interviews with groundbreaking women from Oprah Winfrey to Madeleine Albright to Sheryl Sandberg, at time.com/firsts. ALTHEA GIBSON became the first person of color...
