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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
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 is a list of women artists who were born in America or whose artworks are closely associated with that country. Included are recognized American women artists, known for creating artworks that are primarily visual in nature, in traditional media such as painting, sculpture, photography, printmaking, ceramics as well as in more recently developed genres, such as installation art ...
Adrien Broom (born 1980), fashion and fine art photographer specializing in images of young women; Zoe Lowenthal Brown (1927–2022), fine art photography, documentary photographic "visual essays", and portraiture. Esther Bubley (1921–1998), expressive photos of ordinary people, later specializing in children in hospitals and other medical themes
Corazon Aquino. Corazon Aquino was President of the Philippines from 1986-1992 under some extraordinary circumstances.She was a Senator's wife and became a political leader in the People Power ...
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]
Victoria Woodhull was the first woman to run for president in the U.S. and she made her historic run in 1872 – before women even had the right to vote! She supported women's suffrage as well as welfare for the poor, and though it was frowned upon at the time, she didn't shy away from being vocal about sexual freedom.
Here are several, in alphabetical order, who have left permanent marks on American horticultural history: JANE COLDEN In the 1750s, Colden became the first female American botanist.