Women’s History: Did You Know?

Enjoy a few fun facts about fascinating females for Women’s History Month

By Susannah G. Bortner

Edith Wharton

Photo by: The Mount Estate and Garden

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Did you know...

…that windshield wipers were invented by Mary Anderson in 1903?

…that Susan B. Anthony was the first real woman to be featured on United States coinage?

…that in 1921, American novelist Edith Wharton was the first woman to receive a Pulitzer Prize for fiction? She won the award for her novel The Age of Innocence.

…that Marie Curie was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize? She won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1903.

…that Ruth Graves Wakefield was the inventor of the Toll House Cookie, which was the first chocolate-chip cookie? Her original recipe is still printed on the back of all Nestlé chocolate bars today.

…that Sandra Day O'Connor was the first female Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States? She served until her retirement in 2006.

…that Elizabeth Blackwell was the first woman in the U.S. to receive a medical degree? She received her MD from the Medical Institution of Geneva, New York, in 1849.

…that Edith Cummings, a golfer, was the first female athlete to appear on the cover of Time magazine, in 1924?





