She was the first woman to swim the English Channel (beating the men's record by nearly two hours), in 1926.
Read more
The first woman to break the sound barrier, she might have been the first woman astronaut — but apparently NASA wasn't ready: Thirteen women,…
Read more
One of the first women in the Navy to attain the rank of rear admiral, Hopper was a math whiz and a founding mother of computer languages; her focus…
Read more
Her book Silent Spring, which warned of the perils of pesticide use, sparked a grassroots green movement and spurred the overhauling of our national…
Read more
Those cheekbones, those trousers, those four Best Actress Oscars (still a record). Most of all, that insistence upon Yankee self-reliance and gumption.…
Read more
She created life's first test: The Apgar Score for evaluating newborns, so those in need of medical help could get it immediately. The result of…
Read more
In creating an order whose members tended to the orphaned, sick, and dying among the poorest of the poor in India and, eventually, worldwide, Mother…
Read more
This Olympic track and field champ and golf whiz (36 LPGA titles) made it okay for women to let the world see how much they wanted to win. Another…
Read more