First Women In The World part 5

First Women In The World part 5

First Women In The World part 5

First Women In The World part 5

201. Diana Ross (Music/Entertainment) - First woman to be awarded the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award (2012).

202. Lydia Maria Child (Literature/Activism) - First American woman to write a best-selling anti-slavery book An Appeal in Favor of That Class of Americans Called Africans (1833).

203. Katherine Johnson (Mathematics/Space Science) - First African-American woman to work as a NASA mathematician and to calculate trajectories for space missions (1960s).

204. Yayoi Kusama (Art) - First woman to achieve fame in the avant-garde art scene in Japan and be recognized globally with her Infinity Rooms (1960s).

205. Margaret Bourke-White (Photography/Journalism) - First female photographer for Life magazine (1936) and first female war correspondent during World War II.

206. Meryl Streep (Film/Acting) - First woman to receive 21 Academy Award nominations (1980s-2020s).

207. Hannah Arendt (Philosophy/Politics) - First woman to present groundbreaking political theory in The Origins of Totalitarianism (1951).

208. Mae Jemison (Space Exploration) - First African-American woman to go into space (1992).

209. Zaha Hadid (Architecture) - First woman to win the Pritzker Architecture Prize (2004).

210. Anne Sullivan (Education) - First teacher of Helen Keller, and the first woman to be recognized as a pioneering educator (1887).

211. Grace Hopper (Technology) - First woman to develop a computer programming language compiler, which contributed to the creation of COBOL (1950s).

212. Mina Loy (Poetry/Art) - First woman poet to challenge traditional gender roles through avant-garde writing (1910s).

213. Bessie Head (Literature) - First woman to write about the African experience and apartheid under South African exile (1960s).

214. Lydia Darragh (Revolutionary War/Spy) - First woman to spy for the American Revolution (1777).

215. Jane Goodall (Science/Primatology) - First person to study chimpanzees in the wild, pioneering animal behavior research (1960s).

216. Sally Ride (Space Exploration) - First American woman in space (1983).

217. Carla Hayden (Library Science) - First woman and African-American woman to be appointed as the Librarian of Congress (2016).

218. Barbara Jordan (Politics) - First African-American woman elected to the Texas Senate (1966).

219. Wang Zhenyi (Astronomy/Mathematics) - First Chinese woman to publish a book on astronomy and a contributor to early scientific theory (18th Century).

220. Boudicca (Leadership/War) - First British woman to lead a significant military revolt against the Roman Empire (60-61 CE).

221. Gertrude Ederle (Sports/Swimming) - First woman to swim across the English Channel (1926).

222. Rebecca Lee Crumpler (Medicine) - First African-American woman to earn a medical degree in the U.S. (1864).

223. Irena Sendler (Humanitarian) - First woman recognized for saving 2,500 Jewish children from the Holocaust (1942-1943).

224. Sophie Germain (Mathematics) - First woman to win the grand prize in mathematics from the Paris Academy of Sciences (1800s).

225. Alice Paul (Activism/Feminism) - First woman to campaign for the equal rights amendment in the United States (1920s).

226. Ruth Bader Ginsburg (Law) - First woman to be appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court as a justice (1993).

227. Indira Gandhi (Politics) - First and only female Prime Minister of India (1966–1977, 1980–1984).

228. Claudette Colvin (Civil Rights) - First African-American woman to refuse to give up her seat on a segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama, months before Rosa Parks (1955).

229. Vera Wang (Fashion) - First woman to become a prominent fashion designer after starting her career in fashion at age 40 (1990s).

230. Marie Curie (Science) - First woman to win the Nobel Prize twice and in two different fields (Physics in 1903, Chemistry in 1911).

231. Frida Kahlo (Art) - First Mexican woman to be celebrated globally as a feminist icon through her artwork (1930s).

232. Martha Gellhorn (Journalism) - First woman to cover World War II as a war correspondent (1941).

233. Margaret Mead (Anthropology) - First woman to publish groundbreaking works in cultural anthropology, including Coming of Age in Samoa (1928).

234. Geraldine Ferraro (Politics) - First woman to run for Vice President of the United States as a major-party candidate (1984).

235. Valentina Tereshkova (Space Exploration) - First woman to travel into space (1963).

236. Ava DuVernay (Film/Directing) - First African-American woman to win the Best Director award at Sundance Film Festival (2012).

237. Emmeline Pankhurst (Activism/Feminism) - First British woman to lead the movement for women’s suffrage in the United Kingdom (early 20th Century).

238. Simone de Beauvoir (Philosophy/Feminism) - First woman to significantly contribute to existentialist philosophy and the modern feminist movement (1949, The Second Sex).

239. Mary Seacole (Medicine/Health Care) - First woman to volunteer as a nurse during the Crimean War and gain national fame for her efforts (1850s).

240. Patricia Bath (Medicine/Health) - First African-American woman to receive a patent for a medical invention, specifically for laser cataract surgery (1988).

241. Maya Lin (Architecture/Art) - First woman to design the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. (1982).

242. Nancy Pelosi (Politics) - First woman to serve as the Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives (2007–2011, 2019–2023).

243. Katherine Switzer (Sports) - First woman to officially run the Boston Marathon (1967).

244. Angela Merkel (Politics) - First woman to be Chancellor of Germany (2005–2021).

245. Marie Sklodowska Curie (Science) - First person, and the only woman, to win two Nobel Prizes in different scientific fields (Physics in 1903, Chemistry in 1911).

246. Gloria Steinem (Activism/Feminism) - First woman to co-found Ms. Magazine and lead the feminist movement (1970s).

247. Zora Neale Hurston (Literature) - First African-American woman to publish a literary work based on African-American folklore and culture (1930s).

248. Octavia Butler (Literature) - First African-American woman to win the Hugo Award for Science Fiction (1995).

249. Ada Lovelace (Mathematics) - First woman to develop the theoretical foundation for modern computing (1843).

250. Sally Ride (Science/Space) - First American woman to travel into space (1983).\\

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