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Who is Kamala Harris?
Highest-ranking female official in U.S. history
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What is 1920?
Year the 19th Amendment was ratified
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Who is Rosa Parks?
Pivotal figure in the Montgomery Bus Boycott; honored as "the first lady of civil rights"
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Who is Kylie Jenner?
Woman with the most instagram followers
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Who is Justice Sandra Day O'Connor?
First female Supreme Court Justice
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What is 1973?
Year of Roe v. Wade decision
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Who is Ruth Bader Ginsburg?
The second female supreme court justice known best as a leading voice for gender equality
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Who is Beyoncé?
Female artist with the most Grammys
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Who is Margret Thatcher?
First woman Prime Minister of Great Britain
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What is the Equal Pay Act?
This law that was enacted in 1963, by President John F Kennedy, aims at abolishing wage disparity based on sex
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Who is Michelle Obama?
Influential first lady that entered the White House in 2008 as an advocate for women’s rights and the health and education of children
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Who is Taylor Swift?
First artist to claim all top 10 spots on billboard's hot 100 list
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Who is Elizabeth Cady Stanton?
First woman to run for the U.S. House of Representatives, even though she was not eligible to vote
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What is 1955?
Year that Rosa Parks refused to give up her bus seat
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Who is Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez?
Democratic representative of New York since 2019 and activist for women’s rights
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Who is Cardi B?
First (and only) female rapper to have multiple songs surpass diamond status (10 million units)
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Who is Representative Jeanette Rankin?
First woman to serve in Congress
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What is Speaker of the House?
In 2007, Nancy Pelosi was the first woman elected to this position
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Who is Eleanor Roosevelt?
Former first lady who organized press conferences exclusively for female reporters
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Who is Miley Cyrus?
Name of the female celebrity whose birth name is Destiny Hope
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