When I was hired, I thought about all the gals that came before me, starting in 1911 with Harriet Quimby, the first woman to ever receive a pilot certificate in the US. Now, there are women in ...

What she didn't know was that she was about to become the first ... another female employee. She also worked for a 30-year-old charter company, and she was its only female employee—ever.

150 years ago, Victoria Woodhull became the first woman in American history to run ... through the mail under laws that no longer exist, the Comstock Laws. And on Election Day, she sat in jail.

She was the first woman ever to circumnavigate the globe, but she did it dressed as a man. For more than two years she traveled on a French naval vessel with linen bandages wrapped tightly around ...

Alaska made the name change in 1975, and has been asking the federal government to do the same ever since ... In 1947, Barbara Washburn became the first woman to summit Denali, becoming an ...

Charlotta Spears Bass (1874-1969) one of the first African American women ... editor and publisher. Who had ever heard of a woman running a newspaper? It was the talk of the town.'. Although ...

The winning name for the queen was Janet Guthbee, a play on the name Janet Guthrie, the first woman racecar driver to ever qualify for the Indianapolis 500. Which is fitting, since the queen and ...

Such campaigns are slogs, but this one paid off when in March 2010 Bigelow became the first woman to win best director. By the end of the night, she had a second Oscar when the movie won best ...

In addition to being the first-ever woman drafted, Long was also coming straight out of high school, which wasn't allowed by the league at the time. Though the pick would be nullified by the ...