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This is a list of American women's firsts, noting the first time that an American woman or women achieved a given historical feat. Inclusion on the list is reserved for achievements by American women that have significant historical impact.

Contents

17th century
18th century
19th century: 1800s1810s1820s1830s1840s1850s1860s1870s1880s1890s
20th century: 1900s1910s1920s1930s1940s1950s1960s1970s1980s1990s
21st century: 2000s2010s2020s
See also
References

17th century

18th century

  • 1700s
    • Henrietta Johnston was the first known female portrait painter in the American colonies as well as the first woman pastelist.[6]
  • 1739
    • Elizabeth Timothy was the first woman to print a formal newspaper as well as the first female franchise holder in the colonies.[4]
  • 1750
  • 1756
    • Lydia Taft was the first woman known to vote legally in Colonial America after her husband died and son left her; she was granted permission to vote through a Massachusetts town meeting.[8]
  • 1762
  • 1776
  • 1784

19th century

1800s

  • 1808
    • Jane Aitken was the first American woman to print the Bible in English.[12]

1810s

1820s

1830s

  • 1835
    • Harriot Kezia Hunt was one of the first American women to practice medicine professionally, and "clearly the first to achieve a marked success".[1][15]

1840s

1850s

Harriet Tubman c1885
  • 1850
    • Harriet Tubman was the first American woman to run an underground railroad to help slaves escape. Some scholars label her the "Queen of the Underground Railroad".[22]
  • 1853
  • 1855
    • Anne McDowell was the first American woman to publish a newspaper completely run by women; it was circulated weekly and titled, "Women's Advocate".[24][25]
    • Emeline Roberts Jones was the first woman to practice dentistry in the United States.[26] She married the dentist Daniel Jones when she was a teenager, and became his assistant in 1855.[27]

1860s

1870s

Victoria Woodhull c1870

1880s

1890s

20th century

1900s

May Sutton

1910s

1920s

Edith Newbold Jones Wharton

1930s

Jane Addams

1940s

Georgia Neese Clark Gray

1950s

Tenley Albright in Tokyo 1953
  • 1950
  • 1951
  • 1951
    • December 16: Anna Der-Vartanian became the U.S. Navy's first female master chief petty officer; this made her the first female master chief in the Navy, as well as the first female E-9 in the entire U.S. Armed Services. She received a personal letter from then-President Dwight D. Eisenhower congratulating her on her accomplishment.[119]
  • 1951
    • Paula Ackerman was the first woman in America to perform rabbinical functions.[120]
    • Arie Taylor became the first black person to become a U.S. Women's Air Force classroom instructor.[121]
    • Helen E. Myers of Lancaster, Pa., a 1941 graduate of Temple University, was commissioned as the U.S. Army Dental Corps' first woman dental officer.[122]
  • 1953

1960s

Judy Garland at Greek Theater

1970s

Anthony dollar coin

1980s

  • 1981
Sally Ride was the first American woman to become an astronaut.

1990s

21st century

2000s

Official portrait of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, 2007
Kathryn Bigelow at 82nd Academy Awards

2010s

Official portrait of Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen, 2015

2020s

  • 2020
Official portrait of Vice President Kamala Harris, 2021.

See also

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  • History portal

Notes

  1. ^ Shirley Chisholm's prior "win" in New Jersey in 1972 was in a no-delegate-awarding, presidential preference ballot that the major candidates were not listed in and that the only other candidate who was listed had already withdrawn from; the actual delegate selection vote went to George McGovern.[247][248]
  2. ^ Lisa Boyer was an assistant for the Cleveland Cavaliers in 2001–02, but she neither sat on the bench nor traveled for away games, and she was paid by the Cleveland Rockers of the WNBA and not by the Cavaliers. Becky Hammon was hired by the San Antonio Spurs for the 2014–15 season, becoming the first woman to either be paid or work full-time as an NBA assistant.[296][297]

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Further reading

  • Kane, Joseph Nathan (1997). Famous first facts : a record of first happenings, discoveries, and inventions in American history (6th ed.). New York: H.W. Wilson. ISBN 0-8242-0930-3.
  • Kimmel, Elizabeth Cody (2006). Ladies First: 40 Daring American Women who Were Second to None (1st. ed.). Washington, D.C.: National Geographic Books. ISBN 9780792253938.
  • Plowden, Martha Ward (1933). Famous Firsts of Black Women. Pelican Publishing. ISBN 9781455604098.
  • Stern, Madeleine B. (1994). We the women : career firsts of nineteenth-century America (1. print. ed.). Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press. ISBN 9780803292239.

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