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Some of the most incredible inventors, writers, politicians, & activists have been women. From Ida B. Wells to Sally Ride, here are women who changed the world. 22 Famous Women in History You Need ...
Women have been active in peace movements since at least the 19th century. After the First World War broke out in 1914, many women's organizations became involved in peace activities. In 1915, the International Congress of Women in the Hague brought together representatives from women's associations in several countries, leading to the ...
Proponent of women's right to work and to receive education: 1800–1874: Marion Coates Hansen: United Kingdom: 1870: 1947: Suffragette: 1800–1874: Jane Ellen Harrison: United Kingdom: 1850: 1928: 1800–1874: Anna Haslam: Ireland: 1829: 1922: Major figure in early women's movement in Ireland, founded the Dublin Women's Suffrage Association ...
Henrietta Johnston was the first known female portrait painter in the American colonies as well as the first woman pastelist. [6] 1739 Elizabeth Timothy was the first woman to print a formal newspaper as well as the first female franchise holder in the colonies. [4] 1750 Jane Colden was the first woman botanist in America. [7] 1756
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 ...
What's even more admirable was her work in science, a field in which women faced many obstacles, as well as the time she spent getting her Ph.D. in chemistry from MIT– well, almost. “If MIT had allowed women to get a Ph.D. in chemistry, she would have gotten one,” said Elizabeth Maurer, director of program at the National Women's History ...
In 1980 she founded the all-Party 300 Group to campaign to get more women into local, national, and European politics in the UK. Author of hundreds of features in The Guardian, The New York Times, The Independent, and major women's magazines and the paperback Women with X Appeal: Women Politicians in Britain Today (London: Macdonald Optima 1989).
The resulting book, “Buffalo Bird Woman’s Garden: Agriculture of the Hidatsa Indians,” first published in 1917, documented the Hidatsa women’s methods for growing beans, corn, squash ...