For two years she constructed a radio telescope which in 1967 led to her discovery of the first four pulsars. She is:
Elizabeth Blackwell
Margaret Mead
Susan Bell Burnell
This trial first introduced the priniciple of "the best interest of the child."
Pennsylvania v. Addics
Roe v. Wade
Ireland v. Smith
She helped bring provisions to soldiers on the front lines and set up the Bureau of Records. She is:
Clara Barton
Florence Nightingale
Jane Addams
Best known for her series of well-loved children's books, this writer published her first book at the age of 65. Her books, still popular today, are autobiographical tales of her own childhood as a pioneer girl.
Jane Austen
Laura Ingalls Wilder
J. K. Rowling
Not only was she the first women to swim across the English Channel, she did it in record breaking time--beating the fastest man's record by 1 hour and 49 minutes. She is:
Babe Didrikson Zaharias
Rosemary Casals
Gertrude Ederle
Lucy Walker, an English mountaineer, is the first woman to successfully climb the Matterhorn in Switzerland in the year:
1871
1875
1921
This cosmonaut was the first woman in space, orbiting the earth 48 times in the Vostok VI in 1963:
Carley Fiorina
Urvashi Vaid
Valentina Tereshkova
This actress has had her career Speed to new heights while Wrestling Ernest Hemingway and using a little more than just Practical Magic to steal fans' and critics' hearts alike. She is:
Nicole Kidman
Meg Ryan
Sandra Bullock
This choreographer is to modern dance what Pablo Picasso was to modern art: the single greatest innovator of this century. Her name has become synonymous with modern dance in America. Her career spanned four decades and earned her the Medal of Freedom and the French Legion of Honor. This dancer is none other than:
Dorothy Dandridge
Martha Graham
Ginger Rogers
A self-proclaimed "published author earning substantial royalties" at an early age provided all the motivation necessary to become a respected, lauded author in her "later" years with works such as Jacklight and Love Medicine. This scribe is:
Jackie Collins
Rosemary Casals
Louise Erdrich
This decision provided a clearer definition of what constituted sexual harassment on the job and under what circumstances the employer could be held liable for the actions of subordinates.
The Tailhook Scandal
Meritor Savings Bank v. Vinson
Weinberger v. Wiesenfeld
Which author speculated that "American literature is made up of great novels about young men. If I can write a novel in which [he] grows up to be socially responsible, an effective, good man — forming a community around him, bringing joy to people . . . then I will have helped us all grow up."?
Maxine Hong-Kingston
Maya Lin
Murasaki Shikibu
She is president and chief executive officer of Avon Products Inc., one of America's largest direct sellers of cosmetics and other beauty products.
Nellie Tayloe Ross
Andrea Jung
Elizabeth Blackwell
The American painter who created a distinctive iconography that includes startling details of plant forms, bleached bones, and landscapes of the New Mexico desert — all rendered with pristine clarity is:
Maya Lin
Virginia Woolf
Georgia O'Keeffe
Frances Perkins becomes Secretary of Labor, the first woman cabinet member in U.S. history in what year:
1893
1913
1933
In 1889, this woman opened Hull House in Chicago to help immigrants flocking to the city to find jobs during the Industrial Revolution.
Abigail Adams
Jane Addams
Barbara Jordan
In 797 she was crowned sole ruler of the Byzantine Empire and became the first woman ever to hold the throne of the old Roman Empire.
Irene of Athens
Empress Theodora
Anna Comnena
Clara Barton founded the American Red Cross in:
1880
1881
1882
The "Jane Roe" in the famous Roe v. Wade trial later revealed her true identity as:
Linda Coffee
Norma McCorvey
Sarah Weddington
Perceived as a long shot for the office — a woman and a Republican was considered an awkward mix — she advocated sweeping tax cuts, as well as abortion rights amidst a well-publicized disorganized platform to defeated the incumbent James Florio to become governor of New Jersey. She is:
Christine Todd Whitman
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Anna Mae Aquash
