Women Who Made History
1) First woman Nobel Prize winner → Marie Curie
2) First female computer programmer → Ada Lovelace
3) Youngest Nobel Prize winner → Malala Yousafzai
4) First female Prime Minister of a Muslim country → Benazir Bhutto
5) First woman to fly solo across the Atlantic → Amelia Earhart
6) First woman to circumnavigate the world → Jeanne Baret
7) First Muslim woman Nobel Prize winner → Shirin Ebadi
8) First woman in space → Valentina Tereshkova
9) First female Prime Minister of any country → Sirimavo Bandaranaike (Sri Lanka)
10) First woman to climb Mount Everest → Junko Tabei
11) First woman to win a Pulitzer Prize → Edith Wharton
12) First woman President of the UN General Assembly → Lakshmi Pandit
13) First woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature → Selma Lagerlöf
14) Mother of Modern Nursing → Florence Nightingale
15) First female Prime Minister of the UK → Margaret Thatcher
16) First female President of India → Pratibha Patil
17) Leader of the US women’s suffrage movement → Susan B. Anthony
18) Woman known as the “Iron Lady” → Margaret Thatcher
19) Woman called the “Queen of Pop” → Madonna
