Women

Women's History

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    Women's History

  • Decade 1

    Decade 1
    Ida B. Wells founded one of the most prominent organizations in the United States. The organization is known to others as the NAACP. Other things that this woman is a part of is African-American educator, newspaperwoman, and anti-lynching campaigner.

  • Decade 2

    Decade 2
    This date marks the day that the Girl Scouts was founded by Juliette Gordon Low.

  • Decade 3

    Decade 3
    Amelia Earhart is the first woman to cross the Atlantic in an airplane.

  • Decade 4

    Decade 4
    Frances Perkins becomes the first female member of a Presidential cabinet. Perkins, a sociologist and Progressive reformer in New York, served as Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Secretary of Labor

  • Decade 5

    Decade 5
    The All-American Girls Professional Baseball League becomes the first professional baseball league for female players

  • Decade 6

    Decade 6
    "WHER: The First All-Girl Radio Station in The World" first went on the air.

  • Decade 7

    Decade 7
    The FDA announces its approval of "The Pill," the first birth-control drug.

  • Decade 8

    Decade 8
    Janet Guthrie is the first woman to drive in the Indy 500.

  • Decade 9

    Decade 9
    Joan Benoit wins the first women's Olympic Marathon.

  • Decade 10

    Decade 10
    Madeleine Albright becomes the first female Secretary of State.

  • Decade 11

    Decade 11
    Kathryn Bigelow becomes the first woman to win an Oscar for Best Director.