Shoutout to Nadia Comăneci, the first person in Olympic Games history to score a perfect 10 in gymnastics this day in 1976. Read on
Shout-out to Nettie Stevens, an American geneticist who discovered and described sex differences in chromosomes. Read on
Happy birthday to artist and feminist Frida Kahlo. You were and continue to be magic – no maybes about it. Read on
HBD to Anna Arnold Hedgeman, civil rights leader and first woman to serve on a NYC mayor’s cabinet! Read on
Shoutout to the Van Buren sisters, who rode across the country on motorcycles by themselves 100 years ago. Read on
Happy birthday to Crystal Bird Fauset, the first African-American woman to become a state legislator. Read on
Happy b-day to Pearl Witherington, leader of the British SOE during WWII, a network of elite spies and saboteurs. Read on
Shoutout to Soviet Cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova, who became the first woman in space on June 16th, 1963. Read on