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Megan Brennan was named as the first female United States Postmaster General. [309] 2015 Jennifer Welter became the first American woman hired to coach in men's pro football when the Texas Revolution of the Champions Indoor Football league announced that Welter was hired to coach linebackers and special teams. [310]
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).
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 ...
This category compiles lists of women's firsts, meaning lists of the women that became historically first in something. Subcategories This category has the following 2 subcategories, out of 2 total.
The past can be quite fascinating.Those of us living in the present find it really interesting what life was like 50, 100, or even a 1,000 years ago. Luckily, we can go almost 200 years to the ...
List of first African-American U.S. state legislators; List of first ascents of mountain summits; List of first black players for European national football teams; List of first horror films by country; List of First Lady of Colombia firsts; List of First Lady of the United States firsts; List of first minority male lawyers and judges in the ...
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.
In 1857, she and her sister Emily, and their colleague Marie Elisabeth Zakrzewska (1829–1902), founded the New York Infirmary for Indigent Women and Children, the first American hospital run by women and the first dedicated to serving women and children. [109] [110] Harriet Tubman.