Outstanding Women
Women in History
Are you aware of the work women have made throughout history? Here are some examples of important women in history.
1820-1913
Harriet was a fugitive American African slave that was known for her work in civil rights and women suffrage.
1867-1934
Marie Curie was the first well-known women scientist in the modern world and is known as the ¨mother of physics¨ for her research in radioactivity.
1897-1937
Amelia Earhart was a pioneer aviator who set many records before her disappearance during the attempt to fly around the world. She became an i because she was the organizer of a women´s movement.
1820-1906
Susan Anthony was the best-known of the ¨first wave¨supporters of women´s rights. Her long support of women´s suffrage helped the movement succeed.
1821-1910
Elizabeth Blackwell was the first woman in the world to graduate from medical school. She was also a pioneer in the education of women in medicine.
1860-1935
Jane Addams was a pioneer in social work. She was also active in peace and feminist work.
1797-1883
Sojourner Truth was known as an abolitionist. She was also a preacher and spoke for women's rights. She was one of the most in-demand speakers of the mid-19th century in America.
1944
Alice Walker, African American novelist and author of "The Color Purple," as well as an activist, depicted sexism, racism, and poverty that were met with the strengths of family, community, self-worth, and spirituality.
1882-1941
Virginia Woolf, a prominent modernist English writer of the early 20th century, wrote many novels and essays asserting and defending women's creative potential.
1907-1964
Rachel Carson was the pioneer environmentalist who wrote the book that helped create the environmentalist movement in the late 20th century.
1870-1952
Maria Montessori was the first woman to earn a medical degree from the University of Rome. She applied learning methods, she developed for mentally retarded children to children with intelligence in the normal range. The Montessori method, still popular today, is child-centered and experience-centered.
1913-2005
Rosa Parks is best known for her refusal to move to the back of a bus in Montgomery, Alabama, and her subsequent arrest, which kicked off a bus boycott and accelerated the civil right movement.
1928-2014
Maya Angelou, a poet and novelist, is known for her beautiful words and big heart.
1944
Angela Davis is known as a radical activist, philosopher, writer, speaker, and educator. She was well known for a time through her association with the Black Panthers in the 1960s and 1970s.