1. Susan B. Anthony
   Louisa May Scott
2. Clara Barton
   Cleopatra

Susan B. Anthony was an influential activist during the 19th century women's movement as well as an abolitionist against slavery. She worked to bring about temperance, which was a time in history where alcohol was made illegal, hoping that it would reduce the number of drunk husbands, fathers, and boyfriends. The belief was that less drunk men meant less abused and oppressed women.

1. Joan of Arc
   Indira Gandhi
2. Elizabeth Blackwell
   Margaret Mead

Elizabeth Blackwell was the first female doctor to earn a medical degree from an accredited U.S. college. She was rejected by almost every major medical program in the U.S., but Geneva College based in New York accepted her. She would later go on to start a women's medical college.

1. Indira Gandhi
   Cleopatra
2. Sappho
   Elizabeth I

For nearly three decades, Cleopatra ruled as the last pharaoh of Egypt. She was a skilled politician, fluent in 9 languages, and had romantic relations with notable Roman leaders, including Caesar and Marc Antony.

1. Helen Keller
   Marie Curie
2. Mother Theresa
   Dolores Huerta

The first woman to ever win a Nobel Prize, Marie Curie discovered the existence of radioactivity and radium, a naturally occurring element. She was also the first female to ever earn a doctorate degree in Europe.

1. Sojourner Truth
   Rosa Parks
2. Maya Angelou
   Harriet Tubman

Rosa Parks sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott when she refused to move from her seat for a white person and was consequently arrested. The boycott lasted over a year, ending with a Supreme Court decision that made segregation on buses illegal.

1. Eleanor Roosevelt
   Esther Peterson
2. Sandra Day O'Connor
   Nancy Reagan

The woman behind the creation of the U.N. Declaration of Human Rights, Eleanor Roosevelt was a champion for the people, striving for social reform and political progress. She married her cousin in 1905, a man who would go on to have a very successful political career, Franklin Roosevelt.

1. Shirley Jackson
   Frida Kahlo
2. Helen Keller
   Sandra Day O'Connor

Sandra Day O'Connor was the first woman to ever be appointed to a seat on the U.S. Supreme Court. Then-President Ronald Reagan had the honor of appointing Justice O'Connor in 1981.

1. Harriet Tubman
   Oprah Winfrey
2. Virginia Woolf
   Whoopi Goldberg

A prolific freer of slaves and influential abolitionist, Harriet Tubman led over 300 enslaved Black persons to freedom as a conductor on the Underground railroad. Tubman was born into slavery in Maryland and would come to be known as "Moses" due to her miraculous feats on the railroad.

1. Abigail Adams
   Dorothy Day
2. Jane Addams
   Maya Angelou

1931 Nobel Peace Prize winner, Jane Addams, founded Hull House, a settlement house located in Chicago. Settlement houses are intended to assist the impoverished, and her actions led to the development of settlement houses nationwide.

1. Sojourner Truth
   Maya Angelou
2. Mae Jemison
   Angela Davis

Sojourner Truth traveled the country preaching Christian words of God and speaking against slavery, but there is one speech in particular that she is most commonly remembered for entitled "Ain't I a Woman?" She was born into slavery, and went to live with a Quaker family after New York abolished slavery.

1. Margaret Thatcher
   Margaret Sanger
2. Margaret Mead
   Helen Keller

Margaret Thatcher, nicknamed the "Iron Lady," was the first woman to ever be elected prime minister in Europe. Part of her 3 terms as prime minister overlapped with President Ronald Reagan's tenure. It was a fitting partnership, as many of their conservative views aligned.

1. Amelia Earhart
   Bessie Coleman
2. Ella Baker
   Lucille Ball

In 1921, Bessie Coleman earned an international pilot's license from a prestigious program in France. She attempted to learn to fly in her home country, the United States, but was denied admission to flight school programs on the basis of her race and gender. She accomplished this a whole two years before Amelia Earhart.

1. Karen DeCrow
   Judith Butler
2. Bell Hooks
   Joyce Carol Oats

In 1972, Karen DeCrow, the only female in her class, graduated from Syracuse University's College of Law. She spent her career advocating for gender equality, including pushing for family courts to grant joint custody of children rather than granting custody solely to the mother.

1. Margaret Mead
   Margaret Sanger
2. Ella Fitzgerald
   Nancy Reagan

Ella Fitzgerald was a talented jazz and pop singer, considered one of the greatest in history. She won an assortment of different awards, and became the first female to earn the Whitney M. Young, Jr. Award sponsored by the Los Angeles Urban League.

1. Elena Kagan
   Sonia Sotomayor
2. Sandra Day O'Connor
   Ruth Bader Ginsburg

In 1993, Ruth Bader Ginsburg was appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court by then President Bill Clinton. Prior to her tenure on the SCOTUS, Ginsburg worked for the American Civil Liberties Union as well as served as an appointed judge for the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.

1. Martha Matilda Harper
   Maya Angelou
2. Shirley Chisholm
   Mae Jemison

For 25 years, Martha Matilda Harper was a domestic servant until she decided to open the first public hair salon in the Rochester, New York area. Harper ended up a servant at just 7 years old and would continue to be treated as such until the age of 38 in 1895. She was an entrepreneur and inventor, coming up with the idea for reclining salon chairs.

1. Deborah Hunt
   Ellen Ho
2. Barbra Walters
   Fannie Lou Hamer

Fannie Lou Hamer was a civil rights activist who spent her time campaigning and raising money for the civil rights movement. She was an influential organizer, helping to found the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party and the National Women's Political Caucus. Her tombstone reads: "I am sick and tired of being sick and tired."

1. Billie Holiday
   Joan Jet
2. P!nk
   Marilyn Monroe

Billie Holiday's musical career started when she left her steady gig as a maid to follow her interest in dancing. She began dancing at Harlem clubs and was soon asked to sing. Lo and behold, audiences loved Holiday, and she quickly drew a significant following. She went on to have a successful career.

1. Alejandra Gonzales
   Delores Huerta
2. Emily Davalos
   Mariana Castro

While Cesar Chavez is most commonly associated with migrant and farm workers' rights, Dolores Huerta played a key role in working with Chavez to form United Farm Workers as well as organizing for the labor movement. A true champion of the people, Huerta worked tirelessly to advance workers rights, and helped farmworkers gain unemployment insurance, collective bargaining rights, and many other protections.

1. Frida Kahlo
   Christy Brown
2. Hilary Clinton
   Helen Keller

Helen Keller earned her undergraduate degree from Radcliffe College and later published an autobiography. She accomplished an incredible amount, all on top of dealing with being blind and deaf.

1. Bell Hooks
   Judith Butler
2. Jean Kilbourne
   Roxanne Gay

Jean Kilbourne is credited with exposing the public health dangers lurking behind advertising messages through her groundbreaking film "Killing Us Softly: Advertising's Image of Women." She was able to link advertising to a host of social problems, including smoking, eating disorders, violence against women, the sexualization of children, high-risk drinking and obesity.

1. Angela Davis
   Coretta Scott King
2. Indira Gandhi
   Oprah Winfrey

Before and after her husband's assassination, Coretta Scott King dedicated herself to pursuing justice for marginalized groups, speaking out on behalf of critical issues facing women, queers, children, laborers, the homeless and the poor. She also had a thing or two to say about nuclear disarmament, always pushing for peace.

1. Georgia O'Keeffe
   Virginia Woolf
2. Anne Sexton
   Sylvia Plath

Georgia O'Keeffe was a talented artist and painter. One of her more famous quotes is" Art is a wicked thing. It is what we are." In 1924, O'Keeffe married the famous photographer Alfred Stieglitz.

1. Laurie Flounder
   Kate Jackson
2. Sally Ride
   Mary Elizabeth Pearl

In 1983, Sally Ride became the first female U.S. astronaut to make it to space. Her assignment was aboard the Challenger, the seventh space ship to fly a U.S. mission. She would go on to found Sally Ride Science, a company meant to empower children's interest in STEM fields.

1. Maya Angelou
   Roxanne Gay
2. Meredith Grey
   Margaret Atwood

Roxanne Gay is a feminist writer focused on leveraging her personal narrative as a tool to look at, analyze, and understand issues of race, class, and gender. She's author of the New York Times best seller "Bad Feminist" (2014).

1. Myra Bradwell
   Amella Bloomer
2. Nancy Brinker
   Madeleine Albright

The first woman to ever be sworn in as Secretary of State, Madeleine Albright had an incredibly successful and diverse career. She was well-educated, earning degrees from Wellesley College, Columbia University, and Johns Hopkins University.

1. Helen Hayes
   Ingrid Bergman
2. Lillian Gish
   Margaret Rutherford

The "First Lady of the Theatre," Helen Hayes got her start in showbiz at age 5, and by age 9 she had already experienced her first broadway hit. By 1931, she had debuted on the big screen and won an Oscar. She'd go on to win an additional Oscar and an Academy Award.

1. Abigail Adams
   Jane Austen
2. Julia Child
   Virginia Woolf

Julia Child is best remembered for her cooking talents and charisma in the kitchen, but she was much more than a TV show host. Child graduated from Smith College and went on to work in journalism and advertising, but switched gears when WWII broke out. She went to work for the Office of Strategic Services in hopes of becoming a spy, but ended up as a file clerk in what is now Sri Lanka. While abroad, she learned about French cuisine, which inspired her to continue the practice back home in MA.

1. Margaret Court
   Serena Williams
2. Venus Williams
   Billie Jean King

The "Battle of the Sexes" has been fought and settled for 20 years already, and the women won thanks to Billie Jean King, who annihilated Bobby Riggs in a 1973 match. Bobby Riggs had previously claimed he was capable of beating any woman at a tennis match. He, and men across the nation, were proven wrong.

1. Jane Adams
   Marianne Cope
2. Dorothy Day
   Ruth Colvin

Dorothy Day was born in 1897 New York and grew up to be an influential lay leader in the Catholic Church and community. She worked to promote peace and anti-violence, civil rights, and aid for the impoverished and homeless.

1. Amelia Earhart
   Catherine East
2. Crystal Eastman
   Betty Ford

The first person to ever fly solo across the Pacific Ocean, Amelia Earhart was a trailblazer. Her first solo flight was in 1921 and by 1937 she was taking off to cross the Pacific Ocean. On July 2 of that year, Earhart's plane fell out of contact and the connection was never re-established. Extensive search efforts revealed nothing about what may have happened to the pilot.

1. Bell Hooks
   Gloria Steinem
2. Simone de Beauvoir
   Alice Walker

Steinem co-founded New York magazine in 1968 and then founded Ms. Magazine in 1971. In 2005, she co-founded the Women's Media Center. For her political and social work, Steinem received the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

1. Maria Tallchief
   Mary Breckinridge
2. Margaret Fuller
   Dorothy Height

The first U.S. citizen to ever appear in the Paris Opera, Maria Tallchief started out dancing and playing the piano while living on the Osage Indian Reservation. She would go on to found the New York City Ballet and eventually retire in 1965.

1. Chein-Shiung Wu
   Patricia Harris
2. Zora Hurston
   Maya Lin

Up until 1957, scientists everywhere operated off the presumption that parity is conserved in nature, meaning that nature isn't prejudiced in any way and remains at a constant overall total. However, this all changed when Dr. Chein-Shiung Wu presented the theory that parity is not conserved in weak subatomic interactions. When tested, her theory held true and our - or rather those who can somehow comprehend all this - understanding of the universe consequently restructured.

1. Mae Jemison
   Madame C.J. Walker
2. Allie B. Latimer
   Barbara Jordan

Madame C.J. Walker was the wealthiest African American woman in the early 1900s. She built her wealth after developing a hair care system designed specifically for the needs of Women of Color. An entrepreneur, Walker oversaw the expansion of her business through creating a marketing network.

1. Bessie Smith
   Alicia Keys
2. Beyonce Knowles
   Mary Mahoney

In the 1920s, Bessie Smith rose to be worth the most out of all Black entertainers in the country. She was nicknamed Empress of the Blues. Her career and life were cut short in a fatal car crash in 1937.

1. Bernice Resnick Sandler
   Amanda Sandler
2. Mae Jemison
   Janet Reno

Sandler filed 250 charges of sex discrimination against educational institutions in her role as the Chair of the Action Committee for Federal Contract Compliance of the Women's Equity Action League. Her strategy in filing charges and applying little-known legislation helped paved the way for Title IX.

1. Hilary Clinton
   Elizabeth Warren
2. Janet Rankin
   Betty White

Janet Rankin was the first woman to ever be elected to the U.S. Congress. She served 2 terms as a Montana representative. Following her pacifist beliefs, Rankin voted against U.S. involvement in both World Wars, a move that cost her her seat.

1. Kate Millet
   Margaret Mead
2. Lucretia Mott
   Antonia Novello

Mead's work changed the way society views adolescence, though the message hasn't made its way into mainstream culture. She studied Samoan culture and learned that adolescence isn't an inherently stressful, conflicted time. There is potential there for a freer, easier life. And Americans are oppressing teens through our secrecy surrounding sexuality.

1. Alice Paul
   Mary Hanover
2. Laura Bush
   Deborah Walker

Alice Paul was a leader for the National Women's Party who advocated for the ratification of an amendment that would grant women national protections rather than merely state-by-state ones. She was an expert organizer, leading pickets and marches. While an important figure in advancing women's right, Alice Paul intentionally excluded Black women from the movement.

1. Jill Stein
   Hilary Clinton
2. Nancy Pelosi
   Elizabeth Warren

The first female speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi has played a vital role in passing important legislation, including the Student Aid and Fiscal Responsibility Act, The ACA (Affordable Care Act), and the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, among others. She is also the first women to ever head one of the major political parties, becoming the Democratic Leader of the U.S. House of Representatives in 2002.

1. Isabel Stevens
   Harriet Ford
2. Margaret Sanger
   Henrietta Locks

Margaret Sanger is responsible for the invention of medicinal birth control. She's also responsible for unethically using Black women as test subjects for the birth control at a time when there was still little known about the dangers associated with taking it.

1. Katherine Switzer
   Hope Maeby
2. Chastity Tren
   Anne Sullivan

In 1967, Kathrine Switzer became the first women to ever officially enter the Boston Marathon. She's run more than 37 marathons and is a champion for women's equality in athletics. Switzer has won Emmy Awards for her television commentary.

1. Marian Anderson
   Eleanor K. Baum
2. Lucille Ball
   Ann Bancroft

Ann Bancroft was the first woman to ever trek over the ice of both the North and South poles. She was also the first woman to ever ski across Greenland.

1. Alex Cross
   Laura Croft
2. Nancy Brinker
   Anee Sexton

Nancy Brinker founded the Susan G. Komen non-profit organization dedicated to battling breast cancer with the goal of eradication. Participants "walk for the cure" to raise money for the fight.

1. Donna de Varona
   Marylou Beth
2. Lindsay Forest
   Angela Davis

Over the course of her swimming career, Donna de Varona set 18 world records and won 2 gold medals. She joined the U.S. olympic swim team as its youngest member ever at the age of 13.

1. Heather Maloney
   Sheryl Sandburg
2. Maria Mayer
   Katharine Graham

As publisher, Board Chair, and CEO of the Washington Post, Katharine Graham made the risky decisions to pursue the Watergate investigation as well as publish the Pentagon Papers. Her influence extended well beyond the post and into American homes. She believed it was important for the American people to have access to information, even if about controversial topics or events.

1. Helen Free
   Mary Johnson
2. Patricia Roberts Harris
   Alice Evans

Patricia Roberts Harris was the first Black woman to serve as a U.S. ambassador. She was appointed by President Lydon B. Johnson in 1965 and assigned to Luxembourg. She was also the first Black woman to be appointed a position in the president's cabinet.