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Carla Provost became the first female chief of the United States Border Patrol on August 9, 2018. [322] [323] Deb Haaland of New Mexico and Sharice Davids of Kansas became the first Native American women to be elected to Congress. Rashida Tlaib of Michigan and Ilhan Omar of Minnesota became the first Muslim women to be elected to Congress.
Joan was the first person in history to fly solo around the world at the equator, the first person to complete the longest single solo flight around the world, the first woman to fly a twin-engine aircraft around the world, the first woman to fly the Pacific Ocean from west to east in a twin-engine plane, the first woman to receive an airline ...
Download as PDF; Printable version; ... List of First Lady of the United States firsts; P. ... List of the first 32 women ordained as Church of England priests
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 ...
The earliest women living in what is now the United States were Native Americans. European women arrived in the 17th century and brought with them European culture and values. During the 19th century, women were primarily restricted to domestic roles in keeping with Protestant values. The campaign for women's suffrage in the United States ...
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]
A look at the lives of Dr. Susan Smith McKinney Steward, the first Black female doctor in New York, and her sister Sarah J. S. Tompkins Garnet, the first Black female principal in NYC.
First first lady not to have been born a citizen of the United States or in what would later become the United States. [a] She was naturalized in 2006. [93] [94] [95] First first lady to be fluent in a Slavic language. [96] First first lady to fly in a V-22 Osprey aircraft. [97] First first lady to visit Malawi. [98]