Women's History

First The 1st Black woman to reach the North Pole - Unearth Women (unearthwomen.substack.com)

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First The first female U.S. mayor was nominated by men as a joke. She won with 2/3 of the vote. (www.upworthy.com)

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First Franca Viola: The First Italian Woman Who Publicly Refused Marrying Her Rapist (medium.com)

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First "11 Women Who Did Groundbreaking Things That Men Got The Credit For" - HuffPost (www.huffpost.com)

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First The first woman to earn an academic degree

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First Enheduanna: The world's first named author - BBC Culture (www.bbc.com)

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First Black Mermaid: ‘I was always the only black person on the boat’

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First Rosemary Radford Ruether, a founding mother of feminist theology, dies at age 85 (www.npr.org)

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First The lesbian first lady of the USA! (www.washingtonpost.com)

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First Sailor Cole Brauer makes history as the first American woman to race solo around the world (www.nbcnews.com)

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First Woman of Firsts: Marie Clark Taylor (www.womeninhorticulture.com)

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First First female barrister to be commemorated with London blue plaque (www.legalcheek.com)

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First Odin's wife: Mother Earth in Germanic Mythology

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First Higuchi Ichiyo, First Professional Woman Writer In Japan (findingtimetowrite.wordpress.com)

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First These highly trained scientists and doctors were making history. Reporters kept asking them sexist questions (www.cnn.com)

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First Madam CJ Walker, Self-Made Millionaire - HISTORY (www.history.com)

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First The short life of Morocco's first female pilot who was assassinated at age 19 (face2faceafrica.com)

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First Opening doors for others: The first Black woman to become a CPA - Journal of Accountancy (www.journalofaccountancy.com)

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First Lisa Lane might have been the inspiration for Netflix’s The Queen’s Gambit: A former chess phenom who died in February, age 90. (slate.com)

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First Janet Sobel: The woman written out of history - BBC Culture (www.bbc.com)

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First Luisa Moreno, (1907-1992), Labor Organizer (americacomesalive.com)

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First The little-known story of Australia’s convict women - Australian Geographic #WomensHistoryMonfh (www.australiangeographic.com.au)

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First How Masako Katsura Became The 'First Lady Of Billiards' (allthatsinteresting.com)

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First Famous Female Firsts: Aretha Franklin and 57 Trailblazing Women Who Made History (www.rd.com)

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First The Tale of Genji: The world’s first novel? (www.bbc.com)

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