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1837: The first American convention held to advocate women's rights was the 1837 Anti-Slavery Convention of American Women held in 1837. [4] [5] 1837: Oberlin College becomes the first American college to admit women. 1840: The first petition for a law granting married women the right to own property was established in 1840. [6]
Amanda Theodosia Jones established the first all-women's company, called Women's Canning and Preserving Company; 1891 Marie Owens, born in Canada, was hired as America's first female police officer, joining the Chicago Police Department. [46] Irene Williams Coit, was the first woman passing the Yale College entrance examination. [47] 1892
This is a list of women's firsts noting the first time that a woman or women achieved a given historical feat. A shorthand phrase for this development is "breaking the gender barrier" or "breaking the glass ceiling ."
Women's history is much more than chronicling a string of "firsts." Female pioneers have long fought for equal rights and demanded to be treated equally as they chartered new territory in fields ...
MacMullan helped pave the way for women in sports journalism. She's a Hall of Fame basketball writer and former Boston Globe reporter and columnist who won the PEN/ESPN Lifetime Achievement Award ...
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The planar structure of benzene, an important cyclic aromatic hydrocarbon, was determined by Kathleen Lonsdale using X-ray crystallography. The nature of the chemical bonds had been a mystery for many years. Alongside Marjory Stephenson, Kathleen Lonsdale was one of the first two women to be elected a Fellow of The Royal Society.
The History Chicks podcast launched on January 20, 2011, and their first episode, on Queen Marie Antoinette dropped on January 31 of the same year. [3] The show hit iTunes New and Notable section. [4] While an independent production, the podcast joined the Panoply Media in 2016, and moved to Wondery in 2019.