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This week's Woman
of Achievement: Simone de Beauvoir
Index of Women
- Bella
Abzug - U.S. representative, lawyer, peace and women's rights activist
- Josephine
Baker - Dancer, singer, civil rights activist
- Doctor
Helen Caldicott - Doctor, nuclear disarmament activist, Nobel Peace
Prize nominee
-
Rachel
Carson, Ph.D. - Writer, scientist, environmentalist
- Mary
Cassatt - Impressionist artist, printmaker
- Hillary
Rodham Clinton - Lawyer, child rights activist
- Maria
Sklodowska-Curie, Ph.D. - Two-time Nobel Prize winner, one each
in physics and chemistry
- Simone
de Beauvoir - Existentialist, writer, feminist
- Queen
Elizabeth I - Queen of England, politician
- Chris
Evert - Tennis player, voted "Greatest Woman Athlete of the Last
25 Years"
- Geraldine
Ferraro - U.S. vice-presidential nominee, U.S. representative
- Dian
Fossey - Zoologist, mountain gorilla expert
- Anne
Frank - Diarist, concentration camp victim
- Helen
Frankenthaler - Abstract expressionist painter
- Betty
Friedan - Feminist, journalist, writer, founder of NOW
- Indira
Gandhi - Prime minister of India
- Ruth
Ginsburg - Supreme Court judge
- Grimké
Sisters - Abolitionists, feminists
- Mia
Hamm - Soccer player, "Ambassador to Women's Soccer"
- Judith
Heumann - Activist for the people with disabilities
- Anita
Hill - Lawyer, professor
- Mother
Jones - Labor organizer, activist
- Florence
Griffith Joyner - Olympic athlete, runner
- Martha
Graham - Choreographer, dancer
- Frida
Kahlo - Mexican painter
- Jackie
Joyner-Kersee - Three time Olympic athlete in the heptathlon
- Mary-Claire
King, Ph.D. - Biologist, humanitarian
- Dorothea
Lange - Photographer
- Shannon
Lucid, Ph.D. - Astronaut, scientist
- Wilma
Mankiller - Prinicipal chief of the Cherokee Nation, humanist
- Barbara
McClintock, Ph.D. - Scientist, cytogeneticist, Nobel Prize winner
- Golda
Meir - Israeli prime minister
- Rigoberta
Menchu - Writer, Noble Peace Prize winner, Guatemalan Indian activist,
indigenous people activist
- Toni
Morrison - Writer, winner of both the Nobel Prize for Literature
and the Pulitzer Prize
- Georgia
O'Keeffe - Painter, sculptor
- Rosa
Parks - Civil rights activist
- Dot
Richardson - Olympic athlete, softball player, orthopedic surgeon
- Sally
Ride, Ph.D. - Astronaut, physicist
- Cokie
Roberts - Journalist, anchorperson
- Margaret
Sanger - Nurse, birth control pioneer, founder of Planned Parenthood
- Dana
Scully - FBI agent, scientist
- Flossie
Wong-Staal, Ph.D. - First cloned the HIV virus, molecular biologist
- Gloria
Steinem - Feminist, writer, founder of Ms. Magazine
- Sheryl
Swoopes - Basketball player
- Maria
Tallchief - Ballerina
- Mother
Teresa - Humanitarian, nun, Nobel Peace Prize winner
- Trung
Sisters - Warriors, queens in Vietnam
- Harriet
Tubman - Abolitionist, ex-slave, one of the leaders of the Underground
Railroad
- Sojourner
Truth - Civil rights activist, feminist, ex-slave
- Doctor
Ruth Westheimer - Doctor, radio and TV host, sexologist
- Margaret
Bourke-White - Photojournalist, first accredited American female
war correspondent
LINKS TO
OTHER WOMEN'S BIOGRAPHIES
- http://members.aol.com/samcasey/ancestors/nw.html
- Notable Women Ancestors
- http://www.gale.com/gale/cwh/cwhset.html
- Celebrating Women's History Biographies
- http://www.almaz.com/nobel/women.html
- Women Nobel Prize Laureates
- http://www.rochester.edu/SBA/time.html
- Women's Rights Chonology
- http://home.earthlink.net/~womenwhist/
- Women in World History Curriculum
- http://socialstudies.com/mar/women.html
- Women's History Month, Lesson Plans
- http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/naw/nawshome.html
- National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection, Library of
Congress
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http://legal1.firn.edu/fcsw.nsf/Hall?Open - Florida's Women's Hall
of Fame
- http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/vfwhtml/vfwhome.html
- Votes for Women Suffrage Pictures, 1850 - 1920, Library of Congress
- http://lcweb.loc.gov/exhibits/wcf/wcf0001.html
- Women Come to the Front, During World War II, Library of Congress
- http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/aap/aaphome.html
- African American Perspectives, 1818 - 1907, Library of Congress
- http://socialstudies.com/mar/women.html
- Women's History Month, Lesson Plans
- http://www.suite101.com/page.cfm/335
- Women's History Month at Suite101
- http://www.niagara.com/~merrwill/
- Canadian Women in History
- http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/wlm/
- Documents from the Women's Liberation Movement, Duke University Archives
- http://www.nwhp.org/
- National Women's History Project
-
http://www.cs.yale.edu/HTML/YALE/CS/HyPlans/tap/past-women.html
- Past Notable Women of Computing and Mathematics
- http://imageworld.com/vsp/istuber/woa/index.html
- Women of Achievement and HerStory, more than 5000 biographies
- http://www.teleport.com/~megaines/women.html
- Encyclopedia of Women's History
-
http://www.netsrq.com/~dbois/field.html - Distinguished women listed
by career
- http://lcweb.loc.gov/exhibits/wcf/wcf0001.html
- Journalists, Photographers, and Broadcasters During World War II
-
http://www.inform.umd.edu/EdRes/Topic/WomensStudies/ReadingRoom/History/Biographies/
- Biographies of Historical Women
- http://www.wic.org/bio/idex_bio.htm
- Women's International Center Biographies
-
http://www.cs.cmu.edu:80/afs/cs.cmu.edu/user/mmbt/www/women/ - The
Celebration of Women Writers Biographies
- http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/tours/women/
- Biographies of women astronauts
- http://www.almaz.com/
- Nobel Prize Internet Archive
-
http://slisweb.lis.wisc.edu/reerler/politwym.htm - Women's Participation
in U.S. Politics
- http://wisdom.psinet.net.au/~lani/100mpw.html
- The 100 Most Powerful Women in the World, an Australian viewpoint
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http://www.ieee.org/ieee_women_in_eng/women.html - Women in engineering
-
http://www.feminist.org/other/olympic/fact.html - Female Olympic
Lens
- http://www.madeira.org/about/heroines.htm
- Heroines and History
-
http://www.sbaonline.sba.gov/womeninbusiness/fame.html - The National
Women's Hall of Fame
-
http://www.witi.com/Center/Museum/Special/Wistmonth/ - Women in
Science and Technology
- http://www.un.org/womenwatch/world.htm
- UN's descriptions of women's lives by country
-
http://www4.ncsu.edu/unity/users/r/rlkeen/public/architects.html
- biographies of famous women architects
- http://socialstudies.com:80/mar/women.html
- Women's History Month
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