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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
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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 ...
Khertek Anchimaa-Toka, Tuvan People's Republic (1940–1944): The first female head of state (Chairperson of the Presidium of the Little Khural) of a partially recognized country. Sukhbaataryn Yanjmaa , Mongolia (1953–1954): The first female acting head of state (Chairperson of the Presidium of the State Great Khural).
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 ...
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]
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 table below shows a breakdown by sector of jobs held by women in 1940 and 1950. Women overwhelmingly worked in jobs segmented by sex. Women were still highly employed as textile workers and domestic servants, but the clerical and service field greatly expanded. This tertiary sector was more socially acceptable, and many more educated women ...