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Pages in category "Women in history" The following 13 pages are in this category, out of 13 total. ... Fallen woman; List of women in Female Biography; H. History of ...
Pages in category "Feminine given names" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 4,829 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
American women achieved several firsts in the professions in the second half of the 1800s. In 1866, Lucy Hobbs Taylor became the first American woman to receive a dentistry degree. [159] In 1878, Mary L. Page became the first woman in America to earn a degree in architecture when she graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ...
Margaret Abbott was the first American woman to win an Olympic event (women's golf tournament at the 1900 Paris Games); she was the first American woman, and the second woman overall to do it. [52] Carro Clark was the first American woman to establish, own and manage a book publishing firm (The C. M. Clark Company opened in Boston). [53] 1905
Such images were most often used in sets of female personifications of the four continents. America was depicted as a woman who, like Africa, was only partly dressed, typically in bright feathers, which invariably formed her headdress. She often held a parrot, was seated on a caiman or alligator, with a cornucopia. Sometimes a severed head was ...
1889: Anna Bissell, first female CEO in the United States of America. [51] [52] 1903: Maggie L. Walker, first African-American woman to charter a bank. [citation needed] [53] 1908: Clara Hammerl, first woman to lead a Spanish financial institution. [54] 1915: Helena Rubinstein, first woman to found a cosmetics company. [55]
Women in America: Indicators of Social and Economic Well-Being; Women in death care in the United States; Women in dentistry in the United States; Women's education in the United States; Women in engineering in the United States; Women in Guam; Women in the American Revolution; Women in the United States labor force from 1945 to 1950
NameVoyager — Visualization showing the frequency of the Top 1000 American baby names throughout history. U.S. Census Bureau: Distribution of Names Files — Large ranked list of male and female given names in addition to last names. Popular Baby Names — The Social Security Administration page for Popular U.S. Baby Names.