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1949 – 1940–1999: Sheila Rowbotham: United Kingdom: 1943 – Second-wave feminist: 1940–1999: Gayle Rubin: United States: 1949 – Sex-positive feminist; Queer theorist: 1940–1999: Alzira Rufino: Brazil: 1949 – Feminist and activist associated with the Black Movement: 1940–1999: Shadi Sadr: Iran: 1975 – Women's rights activist ...
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Croswell Bowen (1905–1971) – reporter for PM Magazine and The New Yorker during the 1940s and 1950s; Ben Bradlee (1921–2014) – editor of the Washington Post at the time of the Watergate scandal; Jimmy Breslin (1930–2017) – New York columnist; Eve Brodlique (1867–1949) – Chicago columnist, editor
The first lady of the United States is the hostess of the White House.The position is traditionally filled by the wife of the president of the United States, but, on occasion, the title has been applied to women who were not presidents' wives, such as when the president was a bachelor or widower, or when the wife of the president was unable to fulfill the duties of the first lady.
None of the top 10 girls' names from 2023 even made the top 40 list in the 1940s. Here are the 40 most popular baby boy and 40 most popular baby girl names of the 1940s, according to the Social ...
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
This is a list of women's firsts noting the first time that a woman or women achieved a given historical feat. A shorthand phrase for this development is "breaking the gender barrier" or "breaking the glass ceiling ."
Jane Hinton in 1949 is one of the first of two African American women to become a doctor of veterinary medicine. [94] Lillian Holland Harvey was the Dean of the Tuskegee University School of Nursing for 30 years. [35] Eve Higginbotham in 1994 became the first African American woman chair of a department of ophthalmology in a university. [95]