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Harriet Quimby became the first licensed female pilot in America on August 1, 1911. On April 16, 1912, she was the first woman to fly a plane across the English Channel. She pointed the direction for future women pilots including her friend, Matilde Moisant, buried at the Portal of the Folded Wings.
1889: Anna Bissell, first female CEO in the United States of America. [50][51] 1903: Maggie L. Walker, first African-American woman to charter a bank. [citation needed][52] 1908: Clara Hammerl, first woman to lead a Spanish financial institution. [53] 1915: Helena Rubinstein, first woman to found a cosmetics company.
Amanda Theodosia Jones established the first all-women's company, called Women's Canning and Preserving Company; 1891 Marie Owens, born in Canada, was hired as America's first female police officer, joining the Chicago Police Department. [46] Irene Williams Coit, was the first woman passing the Yale College entrance examination. [47] 1892
MacMullan helped pave the way for women in sports journalism. She's a Hall of Fame basketball writer and former Boston Globe reporter and columnist who won the PEN/ESPN Lifetime Achievement Award ...
Kentucky Women Remembered. Kentucky Women Remembered is an exhibit in the Kentucky State Capitol that honors the contributions of women from the Commonwealth. The exhibit consists of over 60 watercolor portraits of outstanding Kentucky women. The Kentucky Commission on Women receives nominations and selects two to four honorees each year to be ...
Yulia Drunina (1924–1991, Soviet Union), poet & fiction wr. Anna Harriett Drury (1824–1912, England), poet & nv. Helene von Druskowitz (1856–1918, Austria/Austria-Hungary), pw., critic & poet; Elżbieta Drużbacka (1695/1698–1765, Poland), poet; Svetlana Druzhinina (b. 1935, Soviet Union/Russia), screenwriter & actor
Maria Mercè Marçal (1952–1998) Sophie Maríñez [57] Ruth Martin [58] Lyn Marven [59] Eleanor Marx (1855–1898) Melanie Mauthner [60] Bonnie McDougall [61] Megan McDowell [62] Nanette McGuinness.
History of the Caribbean. Aviva Chomsky (born 1957) Lucille M. Mair (1924–2009) History of the United States. Holly Brewer (born 1964) – early American History. Drew Gilpin Faust (born 1947) – Civil War, culture of death, and the Confederacy. Elizabeth Fox-Genovese (1941–2007) – Southern slavery, women's history.