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- 3. Inventor of the aquarium
- 6. The first Somali American and the first naturalized citizen of African birth in the United States Congress, and the first woman of color to represent Minnesota
- 9. Beauty Entrepreneur, Philanthropist, one of the first self made female millionaires
- 16. Launched American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) Women’s Rights Project.
- 17. The first major rallying cry for feminisim, fighters for women's right to vote
- 19. Provided the foundation for GPS, Bluetooth and Wifi, developed the idea of "frequency hopping" during WWII
- 20. 2013 winner of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, philanthropist, and the first African American woman on Forbes’ list of billionaires
- 22. Invented the foundation for the modern security system, received an award from the National Science Committee
- 23. joined with America's National Women's History Museum -- who've just opened an online exhibition in partnership with Microsoft, charting the achievements of female entrepreneurs over the last hundred years -- to celebrate some of the many women who changed the way we do business.
- 25. Liberian peace activist known for rallying women to pressure leaders into ending Liberia's civil war and shared 2011 Nobel Peace Prize winner.
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- 1. the first female inductee into the Television Academy’s Hall of Fame
- 2. Fought for girl's right to an education despite dangerous laws and penalties imposed by the Taliban
- 4. founder of Biocon, India's first biotech company
- 5. Inventor of Kevlar
- 7. Prolific music artist, founder of the imagination library and partial funder of the Maderna Covid Vaccine
- 8. the first ever woman to produce a sitcom
- 10. Somalian fashion model, author and activist known for her effors to eliminate FGM
- 11. the world's foremost expert on chimpanzees, led a 60 year study of social and familial interactions in chimps
- 12. The youngest woman ever to serve in congress
- 13. Inventor of the windshield wiper
- 14. Inventor of the first compiler, allowing people to code in their own language and essentially teaching computers to "talk."
- 15. The first woman to top China's annual Huran Report rich list and the richest self made woman in the world.
- 18. Weight Watchers to Chanel to China's largest recycled paper company, smart women have been behind many of the great businesses of the last century.
- 21. First woman on the cover of Time Magazine
- 24. Catriona Davies & Lauren Said-Moorhouse, for CNN