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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). [53] 1905
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 ...
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]
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 ...
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.
List of first female pharmacists by country; List of first female physicians by country; List of the first women ordained as priests in the Anglican Church of Australia in 1992; List of the first 32 women ordained as Church of England priests
Pages in category "Women's firsts" The following 65 pages are in this category, out of 65 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Jane Addams;
First first lady to have been born in the 18th century. [2] First first lady to have had children when she became first lady. [2] First first lady to outlive her children. [2] First first lady to outlive her husband. [2] First first lady to be older than her husband. [2] First first lady (and first American woman) to appear on a U.S. postage ...