Women's History Month

3. The first woman and first woman of color vice president of the United States. "While I may be the first woman in this office, I will not be the last,"
5. This Polish-French physicist is synonymous with her work in radioactivity and was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize and the only woman to win twice.
6. Elected as Barbados’ prime minister in 2018. When she was sworn in, she became the first woman to hold the role.
8. The first American woman in space.
9. When she refused to give up her seat in the ‘coloured’ section to a white person, she became the centre of a national movement and international icon of resistance
11. The first woman to receive a presidential nomination from a major political party. During her speech at the Democratic National Convention, she says, “Standing here as my mother's daughter, and my daughter's mother, I'm so happy this day has come.”

1. A formerly enslaved worker turned abolitionist and women’s rights activist delivered her famous "Ain't I a Woman?" speech at the Women’s Rights Convention in Akron, Ohio
2. A Mexican artist whose striking, distinctive works combine an exploration of gender, class and identity with symbols from the nation’s cultural history
4. The first female attorney general of the United States
6. Authored the literary classic Frankenstein in 1818
7. The first woman to earn a PhD in mathematics from Yale University in 1934.
10. Her work earned her the nickname 'Angel of the Battlefield'. After the war she ran the Office of Missing Soldiers, helping thousands of families locate missing relatives, and establishing the American Red Cross