Women Flashcards
Four Square Gospel founder
Aimee Semple McPherson
“Queen of the West”
Dale Evans
U.S. Ambassador to Italy - 1953
Clare Booth Luce
First Woman: Secretary of Transportation
Elizabeth Dole
First Woman: Winner of two Nobel prizes
Marie Curie
Hull House founder
Jane Addams
Abe Lincoln’s young love
Ann Ruttledge
“Sweater Girl”
Lana Turner
Miss America 1971
Phyllis George
First test tube baby
Louise Brown
First Woman: Secretary of State
Madelaine Albright
“First Lady of the Silent Screen”
Lillian Gish
Emily Dickinson’s advisor
Helent Hunt Jackson
Burlesque queen who lived in France
Josephine Baker
Nobel Peace Prize winner in 1979
Mother Teresa
First Woman: Major party V.P. Candidate
Geralidine Ferraro
Maryland senator and congressperson
Barbara Mikulski
Washington governor - 1995-
Dixie Lee Ray
President of the Philippines - 1986-92
Corazon Aquino
She replaced Vanessa Williams as Miss America
Suzette Charles
First Woman: Citadel cadet
Shannon Faulkner
“First Lady of the American Stage”
Helen Hayes
Wild West show sharp-shooter
Annie Oakley
Poetess from the island of Lesbos
Sappho
First Woman: In the Indianapolis 500
Janet Guthrie
Founder of Bryn Mawr school for girls
Edith Hamilton
She testified against Clarence Thomas
Anita Hill
Prime Minister of Israel - 1969-74
Golda Meir (raised in Milwaukee)
“Queen of Soul”
Aretha Franklin
“Queen of the Swashbucklers”
Maureen O’Hara
First Woman: To receive the Congressional Medal of Honor
Mary Walker
Supreme Court Justice appointed in 1993
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
“Queen of Disco”
Donna Summer
1990s etiquette advisor
Martha Stewart
CNN’s British-Iranian reporter
Christiane Amanpour
Friend of the James Gang
Belle Starr
“The Poor Little Rich Girl”
Barbara Hutton
First Woman: Presidential cabinet member
Frances Perkins (FDR Administration)
First Woman: To break sound barrier
Jacqueline Cochran
“Peekaboo Girl”
Veronica Lake
Bob Fosse’s “Red-Headed” wife
Gwen Verdon
President of Argentina - 1975-76
Isabel Peron
First Woman: To swim the English channel
Gertrude Ederle
First Woman: Attorney General
Janet Reno
“Girl in the Red Velvet Swing”
Evelyn Nesbit Thaw
First Woman: in congress
Jeannette Rankin (1916)
Helen Keller’s teacher
Anne Sullivan
Prime Minister of India - 1966-77 - 1980-84
Indira Gandhi