Tag: WDC Metro Area Women

A social reformer, the founder and first president of the National Council of Jewish Women (NCJW).
Category: Activism & Feminism.

A Native American guide and interpreter. The only woman on the Lewis and Clark Expedition to the Pacific Ocean.
Category: Religion & Ethnic Culture.

A politician and diplomat. The first female Secretary of State in the US.
Category: Politics & Leaders.

The first professional African-American and Native American sculptress to gain an international reputation.
Category: Arts.

Abolitionist, suffragist, journalist, publisher, teacher, and lawyer. The first black woman publisher in North America and the first woman publisher in Canada.
Category: Media, Law, Activism & Feminism.

A lawyer, writer, conservative political activist, and political analyst. Best known for campaigning against ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment to the US Constitution.
Category: Politics & Leaders, Law.

A workers-rights advocate, the 4th US Secretary of Labor, the first woman in this position, the first woman to serve as a cabinet secretary, and the first woman to serve in a Presidential cabinet.
Category: Politics & Leaders, Activism & Feminism, Academy & Education.

The first female Vice President of the United States, the first woman to serve as California attorney general, a former US Senator from California, and a lawyer.
Category: Politics & Leaders, Law.

An American economist and the first woman to serve as the Chair of the Federal Reserve from 2014 to 2018, and the first woman Secretary of the Treasury.
Category: Business & Entrepreneurship, Economics & Finance, Academy & Education.

A Democratic congresswoman from California, the first female Speaker of the United States House of Representatives.
Category: Politics & Leaders.