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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 ...
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.
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.
Category. : 18th-century American women. Wikimedia Commons has media related to 18th-century women of the United States. This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:18th-century American people. It includes American people that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent. 13th.
Nana Asma'u (1793–1864), Fulani poet and pioneer of women's education in Sokoto Caliphate. Mah Laqa Bai (1768–1824), Urdu poet and philanthropist. Anna Laetitia Barbauld (1743–1825), English poet, essayist, literary critic and children's author. Margaret Bingham (1740–1814), English poet and painter.
Madeleine-Françoise Calais (circa 1713– fl. 1740) French dentist. Princess Charlotte of Saxe-Meiningen (1751–1827), German astronomer. Maria Angela Ardinghelli (1728–1825), Italian mathematician and physicist. Sarah Sophia Banks (1744–1818), British natural history collector.
She was the director of the women's magazine Journal des dames (1759–78) in 1774–1775. Barbe-Therese Marchand (1745 – fl. 1792), was a French journalist and editor. She was the director and chief editor of the Affiches d'Artois of Arras in 1789–1792. [32] Louise-Félicité de Kéralio (1757–1821), was a French publisher.