Tag: WDC Metro Area Women

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.

A lawyer, the first woman to serve as California attorney general, a US Senator from California, and the first woman of color to run as the vice-presidential nominee for a major party.
Category: Politics & Leaders, Law.

An American economist and the first woman to serve as the Chair of the Federal Reserve from 2014 to 2018.
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.

A community leader for racial and gender equality, civil rights, and environmental activist in DC.
Category: Activism & Feminism.

An actress, an author, and the inventor of the modern menstrual cup.
Category: Business & Entrepreneurship.

A feminist artist and sculptress, known as “The sculptor of the women’s suffrage movement.”
Category: Arts, Activism & Feminism.

Suffragist and civil rights activist, one of the first African-American women to earn a college degree, and the first African-American woman in the US to serve in a school board of a major city.
Category: Activism & Feminism, Academy & Education.