Ida B. Wells-Barnett Born: July 16, 1862 Holly Springs, Mississippi, USA Known For: Teacher, Journalist, Civil Rights and Women's Rights Activist I would like to add Ida B. Wells to the long list of people I feel like I should have learned about in school but didn't. We love...
Artemisia Gentileschi Born: July 8, 1593 Rome, Italy Known For: World Renowned Baroque Painter For today's HBD blog, I'm going to tell you about the 16th century feminist icon you probably have never heard of. We generally don't think of feminist icons from the heart of Baroque painting, but...
Magdalena Carmen Frida Kahlo y Calderón Born: July 6, 1907 Coyoacán, Mexico City, Mexico Known For: Painter and Political Activist Though Frida Kahlo is now one of the most well-known women painters, that wasn't always the case. She gained fame within the art community throughout her careers in the 1930s...
Maria Wisława Anna Szymborska Born: July 2, 1923 Kórnik, Poland Known For: Jewish Poet and Nobel Laureate We love highlighting women who aren't well known here at Abbey Research! Though Wisława is a poet superstar in her native Poland, she didn't really reach international acclaim until 1996, when she...
Sonia Sotomayor Born: June 25, 1954 The Bronx, New York, USA Known for: First Latinx US Supreme Court Justice Sotomayor graduated from Princeton University in 1976 and received her J.D. from Yale Law School in 1979 where she was the editor of the Yale Law Journal.She entered private practice...
Shirin Ebadi Born: June 21, 1947 Hamedan, Iran Known for: Founder of Defender of Human Rights Center in Iran and Nobel Prize Winner In 2003, Dr. Shirin Ebadi became the first Muslim woman and only the 5th Muslim to win a Nobel Prize when she was awarded the Peace...
Lozen Born: c. 1840 - Died: June 17, 1889 Died at the Mount Vernon Barracks, Alabama, USA Known for: Famed Apache warrior. medicine woman, and prophet We know little about the Chihenne Chiricahua Apache warrior known as Lozen. She seems to fall into the stereotypical category of heroicized female...
Margherita Hack Born: June 12, 1922 Florence, Italy Known for: Astrophysicist and scientific disseminator. Margherita Hack was known as the "Lady of the Stars" and spent her long career as an astronomer who focused on stellar spectroscopy and radio astronomy. Along with over 200 scientific papers to her name,...
Rachel Carson Born: May 27, 1907 Springdale, Pennsylvania, USA Known For: Marine biologist and conservationist. Rachel Carson is best known for the award-winning and policy-influencing book 'Silent Spring.' Born in a small town near Pittsburgh, PA, Carson grew up around nature and with a fascination for reading and writing....
Betty Williams Born: May 22, 1943 Belfast, Northern Ireland Known For: Co-Winner of Nobel Peace Prize After witnessing the death of 3 children in a shooting incident in Belfast in 1976, Betty started organizing a movement for peace during the height of the conflict in Northern Ireland. She eventually...
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