Women

CLEOPATRA, VII 69 - 30 BC

Ruling with her brother Ptolemy XII, Cleopatra became Queen of Egypt at the age of 17. Soon after, she became involved in a civil war and set out to ...

REBECCA WALKER, 1969-

Rebecca Walker came of age during a period of American history that assumed feminism as a fact of life. But, recognizing that with feminism, as with ...

MARTHA MATILDA HARPER, 1857-1950

Do you ever wonder who invents the stuff that makes our lives comfortable? If that thought has crossed your mind as you relaxed under the scrubbing ...

GLORIA STEINEM, 1934-

A former journalist with New York magazine, Gloria Steinem became in the 1970s one of the most visible American voices for 20th century feminism. As ...

GOLDA MEIR, 1898-1978

Golda Meir, Prime Minister of Israel from 1969-1974, was born in the Ukraine but grew up in the United States. A socialist and a Zionist by 1921, ...

DOLORES IBARRURI, 1985-1989

This leader of Spain's Communist Party took the pseudonym "La Pasionara," or the Passion Flower. Radicalized by poverty and hard work at a young ...

ELLEN OCHOA, 1958-

After inventing a high-tech optical analysis system and serving as Chief of Intelligent Systems Technology at Sandia National Laboratories and NASA ...