…that the medical syringe was invented by Letitia Geer in 1899? 30 Fascinating and Fun Facts for Women’s History Month Posted on March 23, 2016 by Inspired by My Mom The world’s first novel “The Tale of Genji” was published in Japan around 1000 A.D. by female author Murasaki Shikibu. Dolores Huerta is an activist and labor leader who co-founded what would become the United Farm Workers. The feminist icon had a strong stance on marriage—as in, she would never—but everything changed in 2000, when at the age of 65, she married animal-rights activist David Bale. More women are joining the military: Today, women make up 15 percent of active military personnel. We all know her as the steadfast, brave woman who wouldn't give up her seat—but did you know she was also the first woman to lie in state at the U.S. Capitol? Marilyn Monroe is known for her glamorous movie roles and iconic Hollywood status—but Monroe was also a trailblazer for women. She had pulled up to the Waldorf Astoria hotel looking for a fare, but was cut off by other taxis. VIDEO: Battery H Of The 3rd Pennsylvania Heavy Artillery At Gettysburg, Dan Bullock: The youngest American killed in the Vietnam War. In 1975, fewer than 47% did.

Explore biographies, videos and articles that celebrate all of these women's historic achievements. Marriage changed. Harper Lee is best known for writing the Pulitzer Prize-winning bestseller 'To Kill a Mockingbird' and 'Go Set a Watchman,' which portrays the later years of the Finch family. In the early days of coding, more than one in four programmers in the United States were women — and Wilkes was one of the best. …that windshield wipers were invented by Mary Anderson in 1903? delivered at the Ohio Women's Rights Convention in 1851. [Read her story], Mary Allen Wilkes, one of the country’s first computer programmers, wrote the software for the world’s first personal computer (also known as LINC) in the 1960s. So she taught herself French, moved to France and became the first black woman to earn a pilot’s license, in 1921. She was shot in the head by a Taliban gunman in 2012 but survived. March is Women's History Month, and at WomansDay.com, that's a reason to celebrate. Jane Goodall is known for her years of living among chimpanzees in Tanzania to create one of the most trailblazing studies of primates in modern times. With that, Goodwin became known as “the best known woman sleuth in the United States.” By the 1920s, she was helping to oversee the newly created Women’s Bureau, which handled cases involving sex workers, runaways, truants and victims of domestic violence. She rear-ended him, tearing his bumper, to which the man screamed: “A woman driver! In 2014, she became the youngest person to receive the Nobel Peace Prize.

Today there are TV channels offering biographies, movies and documentaries of some of the most powerful and important women in history, but that has not always been the case. From being the first lady, to becoming the first woman elected to the New York senate, to being the first woman to be made a full partner at Rose Law Firm—Hillary has had a series of amazing firsts. Every March the UK, Australia and the US celebrate women by using the entire month to highlight the sizeable contributions women have made to history throughout the centuries. The African American writer shared her message of "survival" and "hope" in the 1978 poem. Today, hundreds of women motorcyclists make an annual cross-country trek in her honor. Painter Frida Kahlo was a Mexican artist who was married to Diego Rivera and is still admired as a feminist icon. [Read her story], Karen Sparck Jones, a pioneer of computer science who established the basis for search engines like Google, once said: “Computing is too important to be left to men.” When most scientists were trying to make people use code to talk to computers, Sparck Jones taught computers to understand human language instead. The wife of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Eleanor Roosevelt changed the role of the first lady through her active participation in American politics. …that in 1756, during America's Colonial period, Lydia Chapin Taft became the first woman to legally vote with the consent of the electorate? You have 4 free articles remaining this month, Sign-up to our daily newsletter for more articles like this + access to 5 extra articles. After her death in 2005 at the age of 92, the activist was brought to the rotunda at the U.S. Capitol, where she received a final tribute reserved for statesmen and military leaders—the first woman to receive such a tribute. Consider inventor/actress Hedy Lamarr, scientist Dian Fossey and mathematician Katherine Johnson, astronauts Sally Ride and Mae C. Jemison, authors Maya Angelou and Amy Tan, and contemporary directors Kathryn Bigelow and Ava Duvernay. She spent years poring over lines of code (many of which were handwritten because keyboards and screens were still uncommon) and writing LINC’s operating system that would let a user control the computer in real time. Here you’ll find some amazing stats about women in the world today. As cabbies hurled insults at her, she remained calmly in the taxi line — until another cab cut in front of her. After only being offered "dumb blonde" roles, Monroe took things in her own hands—after a film hiatus, she went into business with photographer Milton Greene and established Marilyn Monroe Productions in 1955—she was only the third woman ever to start a production company in the United States. We support you," read an open letter. Driven is kind of an understatement at this point.

Amelia Earhart, the first female pilot to fly across the Atlantic Ocean, mysteriously disappeared while flying over the Pacific Ocean in 1937. Amelia Earhart. Our line of historical magazines includes America's Civil War, American History, Aviation History, Civil War Times, Military History, MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History, Vietnam, Wild West and World War II. But the celebration did not last long. But her ambitions early on always seemed to be met with resistance from organizations, and, well, men. [Read her story], Isabella Goodwin, New York City’s first female police detective, went undercover in 1912 to expose a bank robber who went by Eddie (The Boob) Kinsman. In the United States, the movement for setting aside a special time to observe women’s history began when Congress passed a law authorizing the president to proclaim the week beginning March 7, 1982, as Women’s History Week. The movement has raised $20 million to date. From an 80-year-old tiger trainer to the motorcycle queen of Miami, these are the stories of trailblazing women you likely didn’t learn about in school.