Women's History Month 2022

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  1. 2. ___ Wong-Stall was the first scientist to clone and complete the genetic mapping of HIV making it possible to develop HIV tests.
  2. 5. In 1857 ______ Blackwell co-founded the New York Infirmary for Indigent Women and Children to serve the poor.
  3. 6. Marie Curie is the only woman to be awarded 2 Nobel Prizes. Chemistry & __
  4. 8. Maya Angelou will be the first woman featured on this coin
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  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 first African American surgeon general of the United States and the second woman to hold that position- Joycelyn _____.
  3. 4. In 1972 women became eligible to run in the Boston _____.
  4. 7. 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.