Women's History Month

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Across
  1. 2. Developed the first effective treatment for leprosy
  2. 4. Holds more titles than any other active tennis player and highest paid female athlete in the world in 2016.
  3. 9. Spent her entire life fighting for gender equality and women’s right to vote.
  4. 11. First Mexican woman to win Olympic gold in weightlifting.
  5. 14. Most famous woman in history for her efforts to promote indigenous rights and peace.
  6. 15. First Hispanic & Latina Justice to serve on the U.S Supreme Court
Down
  1. 1. Founded the Agricultural Workers Association in 1960.
  2. 3. First Asian American woman elected to congress in 1965
  3. 5. The youngest Nobel Prize winner.
  4. 6. Co-invented the frequency-hopping technology used for wireless internet, cell phones & GPS.
  5. 7. American abolitionist and activist for African-American civil rights, women’s rights, & alcohol temperance.
  6. 8. First black woman to serve in Congress
  7. 10. First female pilot
  8. 12. First woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize for groundbreaking work in physics.
  9. 13. First American woman to travel to space.