Women In History - Leadership Business/ Government
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1776 – Power, Pen, and Petticoats: Abigail and Mercy Spill the Tea!
Abigail Adams and Mercy Otis Warren were friends, then frenemies, then friends again, but never wavered in their support for the new nation.
Bella Abzug (1920-1998)
United States Congresswoman and rights activist.
Abigail Smith Adams (1744-1818)
Wife of John Adams, 2nd President of the United States and mother of John Quincy Adams, 6th President. Known for her letters and opinions on society.
Judge Florence Allen (1884-1966)
First woman to serve as a state Supreme Court Justice (Ohio)
Susan Brownell Anthony (1820-1906)
Napoleon of the women's suffrage movement, mother of the 19th Amendment, abolitionist
Clara Barton (1821-1912)
Civil War nurse, founder of the American Red Cross
Mary McLeod Bethune (1875-1955)
African-American educator, founder of Bethune-Cookman College, Daytona Beach, Florida, Presidential advisor, recipient of Spingarn Medal
Mary Ann Shadd Cary (1823-1893)
African-American born pioneer journalist and lecturer
Carrie Chapman Catt (1859-1947)
Suffragette, founder of the League of Women Voters
Cassie L. Chadwick (1857-1907)
Most infamous Cleveland financial con-artist
Dorothy Day (1897-1980)
American journalist, social activist and best-known political radical among American Catholics.
Mary Fields (1832?-1914)
African-American entrepreneur, stagecoach driver, pioneer – “Stagecoach Mary”
Betty Ford (1918-2011)
Wife of President Gerald Ford, first lady of the United States from 1974-1977
Dorothy Fuldheim (1893-1989)
Jewish-American news journalist and television broadcaster; developed format for television news programming
Ruth Bader Ginsburg (1933 – 2020)
Justice of the United States Supreme Court
Emma Goldman (1869-1940)
Vilified in her day as the "most dangerous woman in America," this Russian emigrant earned her title, “Queen of the Anarchists” as labor leader, lecturer, writer, women’s rights activist and free love advocate
Fannie Lou Hamer (1917-1977)
African-American sharecropper turned civil rights worker and founder of the MS Freedom Democratic Party
Florence Harding (1860-1924)
Wife of Warren Harding, 29th President of the United States, the first presidential wife able to vote for her husband. Scandal plagued this First Lady throughout her life
Rear Admiral Grace Hopper, USNR (1906-1992)
Amazing Grace! Computer pioneer and Navy veteran
“We’ve tended to forget that no computer will ever ask a new question."
“We’ve tended to forget that no computer will ever ask a new question."
“Mother” Mary Harris Jones (1837-1930)
Irish immigrant who lost her family to yellow fever and became the self-proclaimed mother and “hell-raiser” for the downtrodden American laborer, especially children
Elizabeth Keckley (1820-?)
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Enslaved woman who bought her freedom and became an entrepreneur; personal modiste, dressmaker and confidante to Mary Todd Lincoln
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Gypsy Rose Lee (1911 – 1970)
Stripper, Vaudevillian, Movie Star, Author, Playwright, TV Talk Show Host
Juliette Gordon Low (1860-1927)
Founder of the American Girl Scouts
Katie Luther (1449-1552)
The First Lady of the Reformation, beloved wife of Martin Luther
Florence Nightingale (1810 – 1920)
Founder of Modern Nursing
Sandra Day O’Connor (1930-2023)
The first woman to serve on the United States Supreme Court
Queen Elizabeth I (1553-1603)
One of the most celebrated monarchs in British history
Eleanor Anna Roosevelt (1884-1962)
Wife of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, first activist First Lady
Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902)
First president of the National Woman's Suffrage Association
Phebe Sutliff (1859–1955)
American educator who served as president of Rockford College in Illinois
Harriet Tubman (1820?-1913)
Underground Railroad conductor, Army scout, African-American suffragette
Ida B. Wells Barnett (1862-1931)
African-American educator, newspaperwoman, anti-lynching campaigner, founder NAACP
Victoria Woodhull (1838-1927)
First woman to run for President, center of a scandal that rocked the nation