Women's History Month 2022

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Across
  1. 2. Marie Curie is the only woman to be awarded 2 Nobel Prizes. Chemistry & __
  2. 4. Maya Angelou will be the first woman featured on this coin
  3. 6. ___ Wong-Stall was the first scientist to clone and complete the genetic mapping of HIV making it possible to develop HIV tests.
  4. 7. In 1857 ______ Blackwell co-founded the New York Infirmary for Indigent Women and Children to serve the poor.
  5. 8. In 1972 women became eligible to run in the Boston _____.
Down
  1. 1. In 2013 the US gov. lifted a ban on women serving in combat. Today, women make up __% of active duty military members
  2. 3. The ____ War allowed more women to enter the nursing field and in 1861 Dorthea Dix was made the first superintendent of U.S. Army Nurses.
  3. 5. The first African American surgeon general of the United States and the second woman to hold that position- Joycelyn _____.