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November 7 - Kamala Harris became the first woman elected as Vice President of the United States. [ 331] November 28 - Sarah Fuller became the first woman to play in a Power 5 football game. [ 332] December 30 - Becky Hammon became the first female acting head coach in NBA history. [ 333] 2021.
American women achieved several firsts in the professions in the second half of the 1800s. In 1866, Lucy Hobbs Taylor became the first American woman to receive a dentistry degree. [158] In 1878, Mary L. Page became the first woman in America to earn a degree in architecture when she graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ...
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 ...
This is a timeline of women in the history of America, noting important events relevant in American women's history. For a detailed timeline of individual American women's firsts, see the List of American women's firsts. Timeline Official portrait of Kamala Harris, 2021. 1756: Lydia Taft is the first woman to vote legally in Colonial America.
1880. Abolitionist and women's rights campaigner. [ 39] 1700–1799. Judith Sargent Murray. United States. 1751. 1820. Early American proponent of female equality and author of On the Equality of the Sexes.
Dorothea Leighton (1908–1989), American social psychiatrist, founded the field of medical anthropology. Katharine Luomala (1907–1992), American anthropologist. Margaret McArthur (1919–2002), Australian anthropologist, nutritionist and educator. Margaret Mead (1901–1978), American anthropologist.
Hungarian-American MIT inventor Mária Telkes and American architect Eleanor Raymond created, in 1947, the Dover Sun House, the first house powered by solar energy. Wrinkle-free fiber. Wrinkle-free fiber invented by Ruth R. Benerito The invention was said to have "saved the cotton industry".
1889: Anna Bissell, first female CEO in the United States of America. [ 50][ 51] 1903: Maggie L. Walker, first African-American woman to charter a bank. [citation needed][ 52] 1915: Helena Rubinstein, first woman to found a cosmetics company. [ 53] 1945: Ruth Handler, first female president of a major toy company.