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Women as midwives?
Yes in the late seventeen hundreds and early eighteen hundreds women were not only homemakers but were practicing midwives. An important example is Martha Ballard. -
Activist
The first women's rights convetion was held in Seneca Falls, NY. Led by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and others, -
Nurse?
Women during war time became nurses and helped the wounded. A prime example is Florence Nightingale who became known as "the lady with the lamp" for searching for wounded in the battlefield. -
President...of what?
The first women candidate for United States Presidency was Victoria Claflin Woodhull, who would run in 1872. She would lose but took a big step for a time when women could not even vote. -
VOTE!!!
Women finally recieve the right to vote in the United States, on a national basis, with the ratification of the Nineteenth amendment. -
Women in Baseball
During the second world war while men were off fighting the enemy, there was a push to start a women's baseball league to substitute the american passtime. The All-American Girls Professional Baseball League was formed where women were paid to play baseball and provide entertainment. -
Space
Valentina Tereshkova, a russian, was the first women to travel into space. She did so on the Vostok 6. -
Basketball
The first women's basketball league is founded. The Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA). With memebers like Sheryl Swoops and Lisa Leslie, the league to date has not recieved the outpouring support like the NBA has.
