Twins Esther Pauline Friedman Lederer and Pauline Esther Friedman Phillips wrote the most popular newspaper advice columns in America — "Ann…
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She discovered proof of the double-helix structure of DNA before the men credited with doing so, Francis Crick, James Watson, and Maurice Wilkins;…
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Her 1963 best seller, The Feminine Mystique — parts of which first appeared in Good Housekeeping — chronicled the unspoken unhappiness…
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She helped refine radioimmunoassay, a technique for measuring hormones and other body chemicals. There's a good chance the last medical test you…
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Author of the 1962 mega best-seller Sex and the Single Girl and editor of Cosmopolitan for 32 years, she was an outspoken advocate for women's…
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The first black woman elected to Congress (from New York), and the first woman to run for the Democratic presidential nomination in the primaries.
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Hearing the Iron Lady talk tough inspired us to stay strong too — whether we agreed with her or not.
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Housewife Lillian Hochberg, a German immigrant, started a mail-order business in 1951 out of her apartment in Mount Vernon, New York (the town…
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