We've come a long way - thanks to women such as these who were the first to do something. Some are easy, some are very difficult. How many do you know?
Who was the ...
- First woman president of a national bank
- First woman judge
- First woman governor of U. S. state (Texas)
- First person to conduct national survey of sexual attitudes
- First woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize
- First woman elected to U.S. Senate
- First woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean
- First woman foreign diplomat
- First woman to win a Nobel Prize for Literature
- First woman to sell securities on the New York Stock Curb Exchange
- First U.S. woman bullfighter in Spain
- First woman treasurer of the United States
- First woman to own seat on the New York Stock Exchange
- First woman to carry U.S. flag at the Olympic Games
- First woman to be named major general in U.S. Army
- First woman governor to be re-elected (Connecticut)
- First woman justice of the U. S. Supreme Court
- First woman to win an Olympic marathon
- First woman police chief of major U. S. city (Portland, OR)
- First woman to walk to North Pole
- First woman citizen passenger on a space mission
Answers
- Kate Gleason in 1917
- Florence E. Allen in 1920
- Hallie Ferguson in 1924
- Katherine Bement Davis in 1929
- Jane Addams in 1931
- Hattie Wyatt Caraway in 1932
- Amelia Earhart in 1932
- Ruth Bran Owen in 1933
- Pearl S. Buck in 1935
- Linda Darnell in 1941
- Conchita V. Cintron in 1949
- Georgia Nesse Clark in 1949
- Muriel Siebert in 1967
- Janice Lee York Romary in 1968
- Mary Clarke in 1978
- Ella Grasso in 1978
- Sandra Day O'Connor in 1981
- Joan Benoit (Samuelson) in 1984
- Penny Harrington in 1985
- Ann Bancroft in 1986
- Christa McAuliffe in 1986
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