International Women's Day

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Across
  1. 2. First Indigenous actress to win a Golden Globe (2024)
  2. 4. Inventor of an early automobile heating system in the 1890s
  3. 6. Led development of the Apollo guidance software that enabled the Moon landing
  4. 11. NASA mathematician who calculated trajectories for early U.S. space missions and was portrayed in Hidden Figures
  5. 12. Most decorated American gymnast in history after the 2024 Paris Olympics
  6. 13. Conductor on the Underground Railroad who led enslaved people to freedom
  7. 15. Defined an entire literary genre and wrote Pride and Prejudice
  8. 16. Pioneering physicist who coined the term radioactivity and discovered radium and polonium; first woman to win a Nobel Prize
  9. 17. Known as the “Mother of the Civil Rights Movement”
  10. 18. Scientist whose work was key to discovering the structure of DNA
  11. 19. Education activist who survived a gunshot attack after speaking out for girls’ right to education
Down
  1. 1. International climate activist who started the Fridays for Future movement
  2. 3. Country of climate activist Greta Thunberg
  3. 5. Considered the world’s first computer programmer for her work on the Analytical Engine
  4. 7. Developed the first compiler for a programming language and helped develop COBOL
  5. 8. Sport in which Billie Jean King famously defeated a man to advocate gender equality
  6. 9. Primatologist famous for studying chimpanzees in Tanzania
  7. 10. Tennis player with 23 Grand Slam singles titles in the Open Era
  8. 14. Created the Liskov Substitution Principle in object-oriented programming