Honored: 1998 (1805 - 1879)
Sisters who wrote numerous published papers which championed abolition and women's rights.
Honored: 2000 (1910 - 1997)
First woman elected to the Tribal Council, she became determined to lead the fight against tuberculosis among the Navajo. She wrote a dictionary to translate English words for modern medical techniques into Navajo, and hosted a radio broadcast in the Navajo language to explain how modern medicine could help in better care for pregnant women and new babies and other family health problems.
Honored: 1998 (1912 - 1997)
Nuclear scientist whose pioneering work altered modern physical theory and changed the accepted view of the structure of the universe. A Columbia University Professor Emeritus, her experiment disproved a supposedly fundamental law of nature. She was one of the few women to be made President of the American Physical Society.
Honored: 1996 (1862 - 1937)
American novelist and short story writer of the 20th century. The first woman to receive the Pulitzer Prize for fiction (for The Age of Innocence, 1929), Wharton was a prolific writer who averaged more than a book a year after the age of 40 until her death.
Honored: 2001 (1939 - )
In 1973 Emily Warner became the first American female commercial airline pilot when Frontier Airlines broke the barrier against hiring women pilots. She later became the nation's first woman airline captain, also at Frontier Airlines.
Honored: 2000 (1909 - 2001)
One of the most significant writers of the 20th century, Eudora Welty won many notable literary prizes, including the Pulitzer Prize for her novel "The Optimist's Daughter". Her work is marked by what critic Jonathan Yardley called an "abiding tolerance...a refusal to pass judgment on the actors in the human comedy," and it transcends generations and national boundaries. In 1998, the Library of America recognized her literary accomplishments by honoring her as the first living author published in the prestigious Library of America series.
Honored: 1994 (1795 - 1852)
First American woman to speak out against slavery and for the equality of women. An inspiration to Stanton, Anthony and other women's equality advocates, Wright wrote and spoke out publicly for equal rights for all at a time when women were not accepted in such roles.
Honored: 1993 (1943 - )
Nurse who was the first woman since founder Margaret Sanger, and first African American to become president of the Planned Parenthood Foundation. Wattleton developed Planned Parenthood into an influential nationwide organization.
Honored: 1998 (1916 - 2008)
Former dean of the Yale School of Nursing and founder of the Hospice movement in America, for which she was awarded the honorary Doctorate of Medical Sciences by Yale University in 1995. As a nurse, she went to Europe to study Hospice from the ground up.
Honored: 2000 (1839 - 1898)
As second president of the Women's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU), she led the largest organization of women in the United States. The WCTU provided a base for the 20th century women's rights movement, supporting, in addition to women's suffrage, broad social reforms such as equal pay for equal work, the eight hour day, and the protection of women and children in the workplace.
