2024 PC Women's History Month Challenge

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Across
  1. 4. – Codebreaker who is among the founders of American military cryptanalysis
  2. 6. – Record holder for most expensive painting by American female artist
  3. 9. – Beat Bobby Riggs in the Battle of the Sexes in 1973
  4. 10. – First and only tennis player to achieve Career Golden Slam in singles/doubles
  5. 12. – First woman to become a self-made billionaire
  6. 16. – Female artist with the most Grammy Awards
  7. 17. - Chemist/physicist who was the first woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize
  8. 18. – Current Chief Justice of the Michigan Supreme Court
  9. 19. – Hollywood actress who designed the precursor to Wi-Fi and GPS technology
  10. 20. – Female artist who sold the most records/albums.
  11. 22. - First woman to receive international pilot's license
  12. 23. – First woman to climb Mt. Everest
  13. 26. – NASA mathematician known as “the human computer”
  14. 28. – Only woman to receive the U.S. Medal of Honor
  15. 29. – First woman to co-anchor a news show
Down
  1. 1. – American chemist who invented Kevlar
  2. 2. – Considered the world’s first computer programmer
  3. 3. - First female U.S. Supreme Court Justice
  4. 5. – First female U.S. Secretary of State?
  5. 7. – First female Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives
  6. 8. – Won the 1993 Nobel Prize for Literature
  7. 11. – First woman to run the Boston marathon
  8. 13. – First Black female millionaire
  9. 14. – First deaf-blind person to write a book and earn a Bachelor’s degree
  10. 15. – First women to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
  11. 17. – First and highest U.S. military rank ever achieved by a woman
  12. 21. – Actress who has won the most Oscar Awards
  13. 24. – Entertainer and spy for the French Resistance during WWII
  14. 25. - First woman to receive a medical degree
  15. 27. – First women to receive EGOT status (Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony)