In 1981, she was the first woman to serve on the Supreme Court of the United States. O'Connor was appointed by Ronald Regan and served until 2006.
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We envy everything about this cool, competent, curious sleuth — especially her snappy roadster. Let former Congresswoman Pat Schroeder say it:…
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The co-founder of the United Farm Workers is a former teacher. "I thought I could do more by organizing farm workers than by trying to teach their…
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The first African American to win the Nobel Prize for Literature; winner of the Pulitzer Prize. Her enthralling books illuminate the mysteries of the…
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Ruth Bader Ginsburg is the second female justice (after Sandra Day O'Connor) to be appointed to the Court. She has made countless strides for women…
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Fifty years ago she began studying chimpanzee families at the Gombe Stream National Park in Tanzania — and in the process taught us much about…
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Known as one of today's most fascinating and influential women from her leadership in the '60s and '70s feminist movement, this famed…
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