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Top 10 most powerful women of 2023. Giorgia Meloni. Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission. Christine Lagarde, President of the European Central Bank. Kamala Harris, Vice President of the United States. Giorgia Meloni, Prime Minister of Italy. Taylor Swift, musician. Karen Lynch, CEO of CVS Health.
Invented in 1952 by Virginia Apgar. Disposable diapers. The first disposable diaper was invented in 1946 by Marion Donovan, a professional-turned-housewife who wanted to ensure her children's cloth diapers remained dry while they slept. [ 12] Donovan patented her design (called 'Boaters') in 1951.
Anna May Wong a.k.a. Wong Liu Tsong. Wong was the first Chinese American movie star, both in Hollywood and internationally, and the first Asian American woman to receive a star on the Hollywood ...
The most Nobel Prizes awarded to women in a single year was in 2009, when five women became laureates in four categories. The most recent women to be awarded a Nobel Prize were Claudia Goldin in Economics, Narges Mohammadi for Peace, Anne L'Huillier in Physics and Katalin Karikó in Physiology or Medicine (2023), Annie Ernaux in Literature and ...
Although often overlooked in mainstream historiography, women have engaged in philosophy throughout the field's history. [ 1][ 2] Some notable philosophers include Maitreyi [ 3] (1000 BCE), Gargi Vachaknavi (900 BCE), Ghosha (800 BCE), Hypatia of Alexandria (c. 370–415 CE), Anne Conway (1631–1679), Mary Wollstonecraft (1759–1797), Harriet ...
Zulma Brandoni de Gasparini (born 1944), Argentine paleontologist and zoologist. Constanza Ceruti (born 1973), Argentine archaeologist and anthropologist. Rachel Chan (graduated 1988), led group of research scientists to create more drought resistant seed in Argentina. Perla Fuscaldo (born 1941), Argentine egyptologist.
This is a list of Women CEOs of the Fortune 500, based on the magazine's 2022 list (updated yearly). [ 1 ] [ 2 ] As of Dec 7, 2022, women were CEOs at 9.4 percent of Fortune 500 companies. Fortune 500 women CEOs as of 2021 (47 women)
American ethnographer and a Professor of Gender and Women's Studies at Bowdoin College 1970-04-26 Kristina Killgrove: American anthropologist, bioarchaeologist, writer 1977-03-10 L. Taylor Hansen: American writer 1897-11-30 1976-05 Lady Hester Stanhope: British archaeologist 1776 1839 Laura Bohannan: Cultural anthropologist 1922 2002-03-19 ...