30 indexed. 35 recorded achievements.
Poet, memoirist, and civil rights activist, author of 'I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings'.
Suffragist who played a pivotal role in the women's voting rights movement in the United States.
Marine biologist whose 1962 book 'Silent Spring' launched the modern environmental movement.
First Black woman elected to the U.S. Congress and first to seek a major-party presidential nomination.
Physicist and chemist who conducted pioneering research on radioactivity — the first person to win Nobel Prizes in two scientific fields.
Aviation pioneer and author, the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean.
Supreme Court Justice who championed gender equality across a decades-long legal career.
Primatologist whose long-term study of chimpanzees transformed our understanding of animal behavior.
Computer scientist and U.S. Navy rear admiral who pioneered high-level programming languages.
Painter known for her searing self-portraits and unflinching examination of identity and pain.
Tennis champion and gender-equality advocate best known for defeating Bobby Riggs in the 'Battle of the Sexes'.
Mathematician regarded as the first computer programmer for her notes on Babbage's Analytical Engine.
Environmental and political activist, first African woman awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
First woman elected Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation.
Cultural anthropologist whose fieldwork reshaped popular understanding of gender and society.
Fourth Prime Minister of Israel and the first woman to hold that office.
Biochemist and physician whose Michaelis–Menten equation is a cornerstone of enzyme kinetics.
Mathematician and first woman awarded the Fields Medal.
Novelist and Nobel laureate whose work centered Black American experience with lyrical force.
Tennis great with a record 59 Grand Slam titles across singles and doubles.
Founder of modern nursing whose statistical work transformed public health.
Mathematician whose theorem connects symmetry with conservation laws, foundational to modern physics.
First woman appointed to the United States Supreme Court.
Lawyer, author, and former First Lady of the United States.
Civil rights activist whose refusal to give up her bus seat sparked the Montgomery bus boycott.
Physicist and astronaut, the first American woman in space.
Cosmonaut and the first woman to fly to space, aboard Vostok 6 in 1963.
First female Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, serving from 1979 to 1990.
Modernist author whose essays and novels reshaped 20th-century literature.
Education activist and the youngest Nobel Prize laureate.