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- Groundbreaking female physician. She was a pioneer for women in science; she was the first woman to hold a full professorship at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, the first woman elected to the National Academy of Sciences, and the first woman to head a department at the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research (Surname)
- Greek mathematician, astronomer, and Neoplatonist philosopher. She is the first female mathematician whose life is reasonably well recorded
- The belief in full social, economic, and political equality for women
- American woman, a disability activist and lecturer to be the first deaf-blind person to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree and went on to become a prolific author of 14 books and hundreds of speeches and essays.
- The Q in LGBTQ stands for
- The country where it is hardest for girls to receive an education
- Structure of the DNA shown by Rosalind Franklin’s Photo 51 (2 words)
- Woman scientist who discovered the genetic transpositions or jumping genes (surname)
- American cardiologist who founded the field of pediatric cardiology. She is credited with developing the concept for a procedure that would extend the lives of children born with Tetralogy of Fallot (the most common cause of blue baby syndrome) (Surname)
- First African American woman in space (Surname)
- American computer scientist and United States Navy rear admiral, she was the first to devise the theory of machine-independent programming languages (Surname)
- World's foremost expert on chimpanzees and leading primatologist (Surname)
- Hungarian-American biophysicist, scientist, and inventor who was a pioneer in solar energy technologies (Surname)
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- Iranian mathematician who was the first female winner of the Fields Medal, the most prestigious award in mathematics (Surname)
- Ethiopian molecular plant pathologist whose cutting-edge research is dedicated to helping the world’s smallholder farmers grow more food and rise out of poverty. She was awarded a L'Oréal-UNESCO Award for Women in Science in 2014, named one of the 100 most influential African women by Forbes Africa, and elected as a Fellow of The World Academy of Sciences in 2015 (Surname)
- Globally around ___ % of young women were married before their 18th birthday
- Pharmaceutical chemist whose visionary research on malaria treatment is rooted in ancient Chinese medicine. Her discovery of artemisinin, a compound that quickly reduces the number of Plasmodium parasites in the blood of patients with malaria, has saved millions of lives (Surname)
- Country that has the highest proportion of women in the world
- African American mathematician whose calculations have been essential to U.S. space exploration. As a NASA scientist, she calculated trajectories, launch windows, and emergency return paths that flew the first U.S. astronauts into space and Earth’s orbit. Her life was portrayed in the film Hidden Figures (Surname)
- Invention that awarded the Nobel prize to Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Carpentier
- Country that had the first female president in the world
- Female physicist who was the first woman to win a Nobel prize and the only scientist, male or female, to have won Nobel prizes in two different categories
- Author of the groundbreaking book "Silent Spring", she called attention to the dangers of indiscriminate use of synthetic pesticides and helped launch the modern environmental movement (Surname)
- When International Day of Women and Girls in Science is celebrated (abbreviated)
- One of the leaders and founders of the American Women’s Suffrage Movement of the mid-nineteenth century (Surname)