Women's History Month

March is Women's History Month, so I wanted to take a moment and reflect on some of the famous firsts for women.

Firsts in Women's Achievement
1715
Ann Teresa Mathews
First woman whose invention received a patent (for cleaning and curing corn) - it was granted to her husband
1775
Mary Katherine Goddard
First woman postmaster
1776/77
Betsy Ross
First person to be a U.S. flagmaker
1784
Hannah Adams
First woman to become professional writer
1812
Lucy Brewer
First woman marine
1849
Elizabeth Blackwell
First woman to receive a medical degree
1849
Amelia Jenks Bloomer
Publisher/editor of first prominent women's rights newspaper
1850
Harriet Tubman
First woman to run underground railroad to help slaves escape
1866
Lucy Hobbs
First woman to graduate from dental school
1869
Susan B. Anthony
Co-Founder of first US woman's suffrage organization
1869
Arabella Mansfield Babb
First woman admitted to the bar
1871
Frances Elizabeth Willard
First woman to become a college president (Evanston College)
1872
Victoria Chaflin Woodhull
First woman to be presidential candidate
1877
Helen Magill
First woman to receive a Ph.D. degree (Boston University)
1879
Belva Ann Lockwood
First woman to practice law before U.S. Supreme Court
1881
Clara Barton
Founder of the American Red Cross
1887/96
Maud Booth
Co-Founder of Salvation Army and Volunteers of America
1887
Suzanna Madora Salter
First woman mayor (Argonia, Kansas)
1904
Mary McLeod Bethune
First woman to establish secondary school that became 4-year accredited college
1935

Founder of National Council of Negro Women
1910
Blanche Scott
First woman to fly an airplane
1916
Jeannette Rankin
First woman U.S. House Representative (Montana)
1917
Kate Gleason
First woman president of a national bank
1917
Jeannette Rankin
First woman in Congress
1920
Florence E. Allen
First woman judge
1924
Hallie Ferguson
First woman governor of U. S. state (Texas)
1929
Katherine Bement Davis
First person to conduct national survey of sexual attitudes
1931
Jane Addams
First woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize
1932
Hattie Wyatt Caraway
First woman elected to U.S. Senate
1932
Amelia Earhart
First woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean
1933
Ruth Bran Owen
First woman foreign diplomat
1935
Pearl S. Buck
First woman to win a Nobel Prize for Literature
1939
Hattie McDaniel
First African-American of any gender to win an Academy Award (she won for Best Supporting Actress in the film, Gone with the Wind).
1941
Linda Darnell
First woman to sell securities on the New York Stock Curb Exchange
1949
Conchita V. Cintron
First U.S. woman bullfighter in Spain
1949
Georgia Nesse Clark
First woman treasurer of the United States
1963
Valentina Vladimirovna Tereshkova
First woman to fly in space, aboard Vostok 6.
1967
Muriel Siebert
First woman to own seat on the New York Stock Exchange
1968
Janice Lee York Romary
First woman to carry U.S. flag at the Olympic Games
1978
Mary Clarke
First woman to be named major general in U.S. Army
1978
Ella Grasso
First woman govenor to be re-elected (Connecticut)
1981
Sandra Day O'Connor
First woman a justice of the U. S. Supreme Court
1983
Sally Kristen Ride
First American woman to reach outer space.
1984
Joan Benoit (Samuelson)
First woman to win an Olympic marathon
1985
Penny Harrington
First woman police chief of major U. S. city (Portland, OR)
1986
Ann Bancroft
First woman to walk to North Pole
1986
Christa McAuliffe
First woman citizen passenger on a space mission
1995
Lt. Col. Eileen Collins
First American woman to pilot a Space Shuttle
1997
Madeleine K. Albright
First woman Secretary of State and highest ranking woman in the U.S. government
2000
Hillary Rodham Clinton
Only First Lady ever elected to the United States Senate
2002
Halle Berry
First African-American woman to win a Best Actress Oscar
2005
Condoleezza Rice
First African-American woman to be appointed Secretary of State
2007
Nancy Pelosi
First woman to become Speaker of the House

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