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Kamala Harris, United States (2021–present): The first woman to be inaugurated as Vice President of the United States in American history. Sandra Mason, Barbados (2021–present): The first time that a country's first president was female (Barbados has not had a male president to date).
Celebrate the history-makers who blazed the trail toward equality, from the first female pharaoh to the first woman to go to space.
Kamala Harris becomes first female, first Black and first South-Asian vice president in U.S. history, 2021. On January 20, 2021, Kamala Harris was sworn in alongside 46th U.S. president Joe...
Margaret Abbott was the first American woman to win an Olympic event (women's golf tournament at the 1900 Paris Games); she was the first American woman, and the second woman overall to do it. [ 52 ] Carro Clark was the first American woman to establish, own and manage a book publishing firm (The C. M. Clark Company opened in Boston).
Female Firsts. Breaking down barriers. Discover such precedent-setting women as the first female Nobel laureate and the world’s first female prime minister. 1793. Mrs. Samuel Slater gets a patent. Hannah Slater (under the name Mrs. Samuel Slater) receives the first U.S. patent granted to a woman, for a type of cotton thread.
Great women in history are a varied and talented bunch, making headlines for things like being the first woman to argue before the US Supreme Court and even to serve as the first female justice on the Supreme Court. These female icons inspire young women everywhere and have opened doors for many.
May 20-21, 1932: Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman, and second pilot ever (Charles Lindbergh was first) to fly solo nonstop across the Atlantic.
On July 28, 2016, at the Democratic National Convention, Hillary Clinton became the first female presidential candidate of a major U.S. political party.
Kellyanne Conway, the first woman to run a successful presidential campaign; Hillary Clinton, the first woman to win the popular vote in a U.S. presidential election; 2020: Jo Jorgensen, the first female presidential nominee for the Libertarian party; 2021: Kamala Harris, the first female Vice President of the United States
Maryam Mirzakhani (1977 – 2017) was the first woman to be awarded the Fields Medal (the “Nobel Prize of Mathematics”) for her work in the dynamics and geometry of Riemann surfaces. Before she passed, Maryam was a professor at Stanford University.