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- Gloria Steinem (3728 bytes)
9: ...find a job as a journalist because editors wanted male reporters. After two years she landed a job as an... - Mary Cassatt (9047 bytes)
6: ...865). Tired of patronizing instructors and fellow male students, and the slow pace of her courses, she d... - George Eliot (6014 bytes)
5: ...to ensure that her works were taken seriously. Female authors published freely under their own names, b... - Artemisia Gentileschi (23093 bytes)
3: ...l Disegno]] in Florence. She was also the first female artist to paint history and religious paintings, ...
12: ...ly talent, Artemisia was denied access to the all-male professional academies for art. At the time, her ...
59: ...eferences of a client base presumably composed by males. The stereotype caused a double restrictive effe...
92: ...xplains the interest of some writers (males and females) towards her. - Mary Pickford (7523 bytes)
9: ...ive more than a million dollars a year (the first male actor who made a million dollar deal was [[Charli... - Murasaki Shikibu (2682 bytes)
4: ...se]], the official language of the court, while females were taught [[kana]] and [[poetry]]. Her father ... - Jackie Cochran (7825 bytes)
14: ... records than any pilot living or dead, male or female. In 1948 Cochran joined the U.S. Air Force Reserv...
20: ...an Party]]. Although she defeated a field of five male opponents to win the Republican nomination, in th... - Bessie Coleman (4340 bytes)
18: ...ys since her death: In [[1931]], a group of Black male pilots performed the first yearly fly-by over Col... - Margaret Mead (11387 bytes)
33: ... of political influence among females. The formal male-dominated institutions typical of some high-popul... - Dorothea Dix (5868 bytes)
18: ... residence in various state capitals lobbying all-male legislatures. - Sofia Gubaidulina (8325 bytes)
46: ... text of Rainer Maria Rilke for cello, orchestra, male choir, and a woman speaker (1991) - Janis Joplin (8673 bytes)
6: ... time - Joplin styled herself in part after her female blues heroines, and in part after the [[beat poet...
30: ... all combined to create an entirely new kind of female persona in rock.
32: ...was pivotal in redefining what was possible for female singers in popular music.
34: ...cended the role of "chick singer" fronting an all-male band, to being an internationally famous solo sta...
36: ... remarkable that she is probably the only major female [[pop-rock]] star of the period who '''never''' w... - Mary Read (2833 bytes)
1: '''Mary Read''' was a female [[pirate]] born in the late [[17th century]] who ...
3: ... boy to make her husband believe Read was truly a male. Read?s father died at sea and left his inherita...
7: ...ckham who was thrilled to be on a ship with two females. - Adam and Eve (8913 bytes)
13: ...e, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them." According to this account, Adam...
56: ... of Adam and Eve as a way to represent female and male nudes in a then morally acceptable way. Sometimes... - Mary Magdalene (15420 bytes)
43: ...irmed in writings that also promote hierarchical, male, formal authority within the church community str...
63: ...is that bachelorhood was very rare for [[Jewish]] males of Jesus' time, being generally regarded as a tr... - Hildegard of Bingen (14070 bytes)
22: ...f early [[oratorio]] for women's voices, with one male part - that of the [[Devil]]. It was created, lik...
30: ...might also contain the first description of the female orgasm. - Kuan Yin (8111 bytes)
6: ...valokitesvara can be depicted as either male or female, Kuan Yin is usually depicted as a woman, whereas...
12: ...tion in China was further interpreted in an all female form around the [[12th century]]. In the modern p... - Joan of Arc (27453 bytes)
12: ...Metz and Bertrand de Poulengy, said they gave her male clothing to wear (as the standard disguise used i...
36: ... safety provided by the "laces and points" on her male clothing which allowed the pants and tunic to be ...
38: ...ave her nothing else to wear except the offending male clothing, which she finally put back on after arg...
51: ...uch clothing out of necessity: since the type of male clothing in question had "laces and points" by wh...
53: ...eft her nothing else to wear except the offending male outfit, which she put back on after a prolonged a... - Marina Raskova (5055 bytes)
3: ...ilitary service in a huge way by founding three female air regiments which would eventually fly over 30,...
9: ... [[Hero of the Soviet Union]]" award, the first females ever to receive it and the only ones to be award...
13: ...n combat ([[April 16]], [[1942]]) of the three female regiments and participated in 4,419 combat missio...
15: ...of the three women's regiments to remain solely female throughout the war, a distinction they went to so...
17: ...oviet bombers, the [[Petlyakov Pe-2]], while many male units used obsolete aircraft, a factor which led ... - Sophia Loren (9622 bytes)
15: ...merica and in Europe, acting with all the leading male stars of the time. In [[1964]] her career came, t...
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