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1837: The first American convention held to advocate women's rights was the 1837 Anti-Slavery Convention of American Women held in 1837. [4] [5] 1837: Oberlin College becomes the first American college to admit women. 1840: The first petition for a law granting married women the right to own property was established in 1840.
Teresa K. Attwood, professor of bioinformatics. This is a timeline of women in science, spanning from ancient history up to the 21st century. While the timeline primarily focuses on women involved with natural sciences such as astronomy, biology, chemistry and physics, it also includes women from the social sciences (e.g. sociology, psychology ...
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 ...
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 ...
Subcategories. This category has the following 23 subcategories, out of 23 total. Women by occupation (95 C, 10 P) Women's history (15 C, 38 P) Women by period (12 C, 7 P)
Nicarete of Megara (fl. around 300 BCE) Catherine of Alexandria (282–305) Ptolemais of Cyrene (3rd century BCE) Aesara of Lucania (3rd century BCE) Diotima of Mantinea (appears in Plato's Symposium) Ban Zhao (c. 35–100) D2. Sosipatra of Ephesus (4th century CE) Xie Daoyun (before 340–after 399) Hypatia (c. 360–415 CE)
Jayne Heitmeyer born () October 30, 1960 (age 63) (born in Canada) Marg Helgenberger born () November 16, 1958 (age 65) Katherine Helmond 1929–2019; Mariel Hemingway born () November 22, 1961 (age 62) Zulay Henao born () May 29, 1979 (age 45) (born in Colombia) Florence Henderson 1934–2016
Catherine Cesarsky (born 1943), Argentinian–French astrophysicist. Merieme Chadid (born 1969), Moroccan-French astronomer. Kyongae Chang (born 1946), South Korean astrophysicist and instructor. Princess Charlotte of Saxe-Meiningen (1751–1827), German noble and patron of astronomy. Jun Chen, Chinese–American astronomer.