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Lilian Bland (1878–1971), built her own aircraft; first woman to fly in Ireland [9] Line Bonde (born c.1979), first Danish woman to become a fighter pilot, in 2006. Maude Bonney (1897–1994), Australian aviator who was the first female to fly from England to Australia in 1933 and to South Africa in 1937. Ana Branger (born early 1920s), early ...
Indian social activist and chief functionary and co-founder of Prajwala, an institution that assists trafficked women, girls and transgender people in finding shelter, giving education and employment. 1940–1999. Julia Kristeva. France, Bulgaria.
Carlotta Grisi (1819–1899), prima ballerina, famous for her Giselle, Paris Opera, Imperial Ballet; Tiziana Lauri (born 1959), ballet dancer with the Rome Opera Ballet; Pierina Legnani (1863–1930), prima ballerina with La Scala, later with Russia's Imperial Ballet; Daniela Malusardi (born 1956), choreographer, teacher, dancer
Chemotherapy. Jane Cooke Wright (1919–2013) was an oncologist who pioneered the use of chemotherapy with the drug methotrexate to treat breast cancer and skin cancer ( mycosis fungoids ). HIV. Françoise Barré-Sinoussi and Luc Montaigner discovered HIV, the cause of AIDS.
v. t. e. Women's history is the study of the role that women have played in history and the methods required to do so. It includes the study of the history of the growth of woman's rights throughout recorded history, personal achievements over a period of time, the examination of individual and groups of women of historical significance, and ...
List of women explorers and travelers. English writer Gertrude Bell in Iraq, 1909. Belgian Berthe Cabra. Japanese climber Junko Tabei. Hungarian geographer Béláné Mocsáry. Canadian-born Aloha Wanderwell. The women listed below are or were explorers or world travelers. They include naturalists, sailors, mountain climbers, dog sledders ...
Maria Cederschiöld (1856–1935), the first woman journalist in Sweden to be chief editor of a newspaper's foreign department. Olena Chekan (1946–2013), did political interviews. Frona Eunice Wait Colburn (1859–1946), one of only two female journalists in San Francisco in 1887, associate editor of the Overland Monthly.
This is a partial list of 20th-century women artists, sorted alphabetically by decade of birth. These artists are known for creating artworks that are primarily visual in nature, in traditional media such as painting, sculpture, photography, printmaking, ceramics as well as in more recently developed genres, such as installation art ...