Tag: WDC Metro Area Women

Actress and producer, known for playing the role of Wonder Woman.
Category: Theater & Cinema, Fashion & Beauty, Activism & Feminism.

Educator, attorney, politician, author, a champion of women's rights, and peacemaker. One of the first female lawyers in the US and the first woman to officially run for president.
Category: Politics & Leaders, Law, Activism & Feminism, Academy & Education.

An award-winning famous American sculptress, who designed the Vietnam Women's Memorial in DC.
Category: Arts.

An activist for women's rights and minority groups, a lawyer, and a US Supreme Court justice, the second woman in this position.
Category: Law, Activism & Feminism.

Author, political activist, lecturer, and the first deaf-blind person to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree.
Category: Activism & Feminism, Literature & Poetry, Academy & Education.

The first American woman astronaut in space.
Category: Science & Technology, Activism & Feminism, Academy & Education.

Founder of the media company Urban Radio (Radio One) and the first African-American woman to head a publicly traded corporation.
Category: Media, Business & Entrepreneurship.

A physician, an engineer, and an astronaut who was the first African-American woman to travel in space.
Category: Science & Technology.

American First Lady, the wife of Abraham Lincoln – the 16th President of the United States.
Category: Politics & Leaders.

The first Indian-American female astronaut to go to space.
Category: Science & Technology.