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Some of the most incredible inventors, writers, politicians, & activists have been women. From Ida B. Wells to Sally Ride, here are women who changed the world. 22 Famous Women in History You Need ...
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]
Image Title Date Photographer Location Format Notes Cited survey(s) The Mime Charles Deburau as Pierrot: 1854 Nadar: Paris, France Salt print: The photograph is part of a series taken during the 1850s. [d] [s 1] The Cook House of the 8th Hussars: April 1855 Roger Fenton: Crimea: Salt print [s 2] Valley of the Shadow of Death: 23 April 1855 ...
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
A demonstrator holds a sign while gathering on the National Mall during the Women's March in Washington D.C., U.S., on Jan. 21, 2017. Credit - Eric Thayer–Bloomberg—Getty Images
2. The day became Women's History Week in 1978. An education task force in Sonoma County, California kicked off Women's History Week in 1978 on March 8, International Women's Day, according to the ...
Jennifer Scanlon, a professor of gender, sexuality and women's studies at Bowdoin College who wrote a biography on Hedgeman, said she "by all accounts, should be a household name." “Often a woman among men, a black person among whites and a secular Christian among clergy, she lived and breathed the intersections that made her life so vital ...
Duplicate entry for Bertha of Kent, as shown by the death date on her Heritage Panel. [24] Identified as a separate person due to a passage in Kate Campbell Hurd-Mead's History of Women in Medicine, where she is conflated with both Æthelburh of Kent and Æthelburh of Barking. [25] Æthelflæd: 869 England Theodora Led troops against the Vikings.