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Nancy Pelosi – California Congresswoman and first Californian and first woman Speaker of the United States House of Representatives serving 2007–2011 and again 2019–2023; Chris Penn – actor; Sean Penn – actor; Stacy Peralta – skateboarder, surfer, and movie director; Chelsea Peretti – comedian; Melina Perez – professional wrestler
Some of California's sex workers were indentured Chinese women, economically and socially oppressed Latina women, or kidnapped and enslaved White women. From 1848 to the late 1850s, sex workers experienced an unprecedented decline in power and a rapid fall from grace as more "respectable" women and their families came to California.
On May 28, 2008, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and First Lady Maria Shriver announced that Julia Morgan would be inducted into the California Hall of Fame, located at The California Museum for History, Women and the Arts. The induction ceremony took place on December 15 and her great-niece accepted the honor in her place. [46]
first to publicize the California Gold Rush, and California's first millionaire: Juana Briones de Miranda: c. 1802 – 1889 Villa de Branciforte (modern day Santa Cruz), California Californio ranchera, medical practitioner, merchant founding mother of San Francisco, California, and Mayfield, California (now Palo Alto, California) [4] [5] R. C ...
Jana Seng: [78] First Cambodian American (female) judge in California (2018) Amy Ashvanian: [79] First Armenian-born (female) judge in California (2018) Teri L. Jackson (1981): [80] [81] First African American female to serve on the First District Court of Appeal in California (2020) Truc T.
White Horse Inn (Oakland, California) Wild Side West; Woman's Club of Lincoln; Woman's Club of Lodi; Woman's Club of Redondo Beach; Woman's Improvement Club Clubhouse; Womanhouse; Women Eco Artists Dialog; Women in the California gold rush; Women in the early East L. A. punk scene; Women's Athletic Club of Alameda County; Women's Center for ...
Women's history is much more than chronicling a string of "firsts." Female pioneers have long fought for equal rights and demanded to be treated equally as they chartered new territory in fields ...
History of women in California (11 C, 157 P) L. Lesbian culture in California (1 C, 23 P) Women in Los Angeles (5 C, 51 P) M. ... Pages in category "Women in California"