Alice Sholl

Hillary Clinton And 12 Other Women Who Made History

Alice Sholl

27 July 2016 at 4:53 pm

Hillary Clinton is now the first female nominee of a major US political party

Cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova was the first woman to fly in space

Physicist and chemist Marie Curie was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize

The 11th and 13th prime minister of Pakistan, Benazir Bhutto was the first woman democratically elected as head of a majority Islamic nation

American competition swimmer Gertrude Ederle was the first woman to swim across the English Channel

Activist Emmeline Pankhurst was a leader of the British suffragette movement, and ultimately secured women’s right to vote in the UK

Activist Wangari Muta Maathai was the first African woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize for her contribution to sustainable development, democracy and peace, including founding the Green Belt movement

Kathryn Bigelow was the first woman to win an Academy Award for Best Director, in a typically male-dominated industry

Social reformer Florence Nightingale was the founder of modern nursing

Raymonde de Laroche was the first woman in the world to receive an aeroplane pilot’s licence

It’s hard to forget Margaret Thatcher, the first female prime minister. She was also the first prime minister with a science degree

Activist Malala Yousafzai was the youngest-ever Nobel Prize laureate for human rights advocacy for education and for women

It’s official: Hillary Clinton has become the first female nominee of a major US political party.

More than nine years after launching her first presidential bid, she was nominated on the second evening of the Democratic National Convention on Tuesday.

But Clinton certainly isn’t the first woman to have made history as we know it.

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Hillary Clinton And 12 Other Women Who Made History

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