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Ellen Church was the first female flight attendant in America; she suggested the idea of female nurses on board to Boeing Air Transport, claiming that if people felt safer they would fly more. [86] 1931 Jane Addams was the first American woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize; she shared the prize with Nicholas Murray Butler. [87] [88] 1932
Top 100 historical figures may refer to: The 100: A Ranking of the Most Influential Persons in History, a 1978 book; 100 Greatest Britons, a BBC series about historical figures from the United Kingdom; Great South Africans, a South African TV series to determine the "100 Greatest South Africans" Time 100, an annual list of the 100 most ...
Kim Campbell, Canada (1993): The first female head of government in North America. Tansu Çiller , Turkey (1993–1996): The first elected Muslim female prime minister in Europe. Chandrika Kumaratunga , Sri Lanka (1994–2000): The first time that a nation possessed a female president (Chandrika Kumaratunga) and a female prime minister ...
Dorothy Day (1897–1980) – American journalist, social activist, and co-founder of the Catholic Worker movement; Dorothy Detzer (1893–1981) – American feminist, peace activist, U.S. secretary of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom; Amanda Deyo (1838–1917) – American Universalist minister, peace activist, correspondent
List of female American Civil War soldiers; List of Colorado suffragists; Colorado Women's Hall of Fame; List of 20th-century American women composers; List of Connecticut suffragists; Connecticut Women's Hall of Fame; List of American female country singers
American women achieved several firsts in the professions in the second half of the 1800s. In 1866, Lucy Hobbs Taylor became the first American woman to receive a dentistry degree. [158] In 1878, Mary L. Page became the first woman in America to earn a degree in architecture when she graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ...
social reformer, civil rights activist, and scholar and who drafted Constitution of India, campaigned for Indian independence, fought for the women's rights, fought discrimination and inequality among the people. Walter Francis White: 1895 1955 United States: NAACP executive secretary Maria L. de Hernández: 1896 1986 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]