...that feminism in Poland is traditionally divided into seven historical periods, the first one dating to the beginning of the
19th century?
...that award-winning
biographerJenny Uglow described her dictionary of women's biographies as "a mad undertaking, born of a time when
feminists wanted
heroines and didn't have
Google"?
...that on 2 January 1990, 26-year old Nivedita Bhasin of
Indian Airlines became the youngest woman pilot in world civil aviation history to command a jet aircraft?
...that
archdeaconKay Goldsworthy was recently appointed the first woman
bishop of any Australian church and will be consecrated as an
Anglican bishop on 22 May 2008?
...that the use of the word "
yeoman" in the U.S. Naval Reserve Act of 1916, rather than "man" or "male," enabled women to enlist in the
United States Navy Reserve with the rank of Yeoman (F)(pictured) during
World War I?
...that while
Mary Wollstonecraft (pictured) wrote her revolutionary treatise the Rights of Woman in six weeks, its novelistic sequel, The Wrongs of Woman, was still unfinished at her death, despite a year's work?
...that Elsa Eschelsson, the first woman both to finish a
doctorate in Law and to teach in a university in
Sweden, was denied the right to serve even as acting professor because of her sex?
..that Emmy Noether(pictured) was called "the most significant creative mathematical genius thus far produced since the higher education of women began" by
Albert Einstein?
...that Pancha Carrasco (pictured) became
Costa Rica's first woman in the military by joining the defending forces at the
Battle of Rivas rifle in hand and apron full of bullets?
... that
feministJo Freeman was moved from
Mississippi by the
SCLC in 1966 after the Jackson Daily News published her photo and denounced her as a professional agitator?
...that
suffragistLouisa Lawson (1848–1920) (pictured), publisher of
Australia's first woman-run journal, The Dawn, was also the mother of the great Australian poet
Henry Lawson?