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  2. Women in Antarctica - Wikipedia

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    In 1991 In-Young Ahn was the first female leader of an Asian research station (King Sejong Station) and the first South Korean woman to step onto Antarctica. [78] There were approximately 180 women in Antarctica during the 1990–1991 season. [72] Women from several different countries were regular members of overwintering teams by 1992. [77]

  3. Timeline of women in Antarctica - Wikipedia

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    First British woman, Janet Thomson, joins the British Antarctic Survey, and becomes the first British woman on Antarctica. [ 33 ] On November 16, American Brooke Knapp , is the first person to land at McMurdo Station for a round the world flight and the first person to pilot a business jet over both the North and South Poles.

  4. List of Antarctic women - Wikipedia

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    Jackie Ronne (1919–2009), explorer, first woman to be a working member of an Antarctic expedition (1947–48) Karen Schwall, first female Army officer in Antarctica and first woman to manage McMurdo Station; Christine Siddoway (born 1961), structural geologist; Deborah Steinberg (graduated 1987), oceanographer, zooplankton ecologist

  5. Category:Women in Antarctica - Wikipedia

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    This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:People of Antarctica. It includes People of Antarctica that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent. Subcategories

  6. Jackie Ronne - Wikipedia

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    Edith Jackie Ronne (October 13, 1919 – June 14, 2009) was an American explorer of Antarctica and the first woman in the world to be a working member of an Antarctic expedition (1947–48). [1] The Ronne Ice Shelf was named by her husband after her.

  7. Jennie Darlington - Wikipedia

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    Jennie Darlington (née Zobrist, 1924–2017) was an American explorer and, with Jackie Ronne, one of the first women to overwinter on Antarctica, during the winter of 1947-1948. [1] [2] She and Ronne were part of a team that re-occupied a former U.S. station (from the U.S. Antarctic Service Expedition in 1939) on Stonington Island in 1946.

  8. Incarceration of women - Wikipedia

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    Russia has some criminal laws that contain articles that govern the treatment and status of women in the criminal justice system; however, with the exception of a law preventing women from receiving the death penalty, these laws are mostly limited to the status of incarcerated women as child bearers and seem to focus more on the status and ...

  9. Capital punishment by country - Wikipedia

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    Those excused from the death penalty are: women with small children, women who are pregnant, teenagers who were under 18 at the time of the crime, and the mentally ill. [75] In Egypt, it is believed that at least 1,700 people were executed under the death penalty, and 1,413 death sentences alone were issued between 2007 and 2014. [75]