LucindaFranks | | First woman to win the Nobel Prize for national reporting |
MurielSiebert | | First woman elected to Congress |
JeannetteRankin | | Pilot of the space shuttle Discovery |
NancyPelosi | | Opened the first birth control clinic |
PearlBuck | | Founder of the Girl Scouts |
MargaretSanger | | First woman aditted to Yale |
KarolineMikkelson | | Wrote "The Book of the City of the Ladies" |
MotherTeresa | | First woman to set foot on Antartica |
EileenCollins | | First woman to own a seat on the New York Stock Exchange |
NadineStrossen | | Patented the first modern elastic bra |
SallyRide | | First American woman to become a bullfighter in Spain |
ClaraBarton | | Designed Hearst's San Simeon |
NellieTaylorRoss | | True inventor and financier of the cotton gin |
ElizabethBlackwell | | First American woman to earn her medical degree |
AnneBradstreet | | First woman to break the sound barrier |
MaryPhelpsJacob | | Crowned herself king of Egypt in 1490 BC |
QueenHatshepsut | | First published poet in American history |
HattieCarraway | | First female governor |
IreneCoit | | First woman elected to the US Senate |
JulietteGordonLow | | First woman Secretary of State |
MarthaHughesCannon | | First person to go over Niagra Falls in a barrel and live |
WilmaMankiller | | First female senator |
LeahFox | | Became Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation |
ConchitaCintron | | First American woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize for Literature |
JuliaMorgan | | First American woman in space |
JacquelineCochran | | Became a millionaire for designing the Kewpie Doll |
AnnaTaylor | | Founded American Red Cross |
MadeleineAlbright | | World's first woman police officer |
RoseONeill | | Elected first female president of the ACLU |
EmilyGreenBalch | | Founded the Mission of Charity in Calcutta, India |
AliceStebbinsWells | | First woman to recieve the Purple Heart |
CatherineLidfieldGreen | | First woman Speaker of the House |
ChristinedePisan | | First woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize |