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Clara
Barton - The organizer and founder of the American Red
Cross.
Jane
Addams - Founder of Hull House and the NAACP, Nobel Peace Prize
winner and labor union organizer.
Carrie
Chapman Catt - Suffragette, founder of the League of Women
Voters.
Juliette
Gordon Low - Founder of the American Girl Scouts.
Mae
Jemison - The First Black Woman Astronaut.
Virginia
Apgar - Developed the Apgar Score System which evaluates a
newborn's health upon birth.
Eileen
Collins - The first female space shuttle pilot.
Dorothea
Dix - American social reformer, pioneer in the movement
for humane treatment of the insane.
Sally
Ride - The first American woman in space.
Amelia
Earhart - First woman to cross the Atlantic by airplane and the
first woman to make a solo flight across the Atlantic.
Maria
Goeppert Mayer - Was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize for
theoretical physics.
Mary
Harris, “Mother Jones”- A long-time champion of laws to end
child labor.
Gertrude
Belle Elion - Synthesized the leukemia-fighting drug
6-mercaptopurine. Also developed drugs used to block organ
rejections in kidney transplant patients.
Fanny
Wright - She advocated equal rights for women, universal
education, religious freedom, abolition, and birth control.
Grace
Hopper - One of the earliest computer programmers and a leader
in the field of software development concepts
Alice
Paul - She founded the World Party for Equal Rights for Women.
Lillian
D. Wald - The U.S. Children's Bureau was suggested by her, as
were other public health services and social reforms.
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