Women's History Month 2022

SCRAP THE RULES

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Meet the women who are flipping the script society handed down to them. So that future generations can write their own.

Learn about women who are paving their own path to create long-lasting, positive change — and laying the groundwork for changemakers to come.

Rule Breakers

in Recent History

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2013

Not all heroes wear capes. Meet Helen Gibson. She’s considered to be America’s first professional stunt woman. Her career took off when she started doubling for Helen Holmes in 1914 in The Hazards of Helen adventure film series.

G. Willow Wilson

A hero for the (millennial) ages. G. Willow Wilson co-created the Marvel Universe’s first Muslim superhero for the comicbook series Ms. Marvel. Beating barriers by day, and villains by night.

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Speaking of degrees, Catherine Elizabeth Brewer was the first woman to earn a diploma (from what is now Wesleyan College) in 1840. She was among 11 women but got the honors, thanks to her last name.

Rachel Romer

2021

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Joy Buolamwini

How many wall street ceilings can one woman break? Just ask Lauren Simmons. She was the youngest and only full-time woman trader at the New York Stock Exchange. Big money moves.

Kizzmekia Corbett

It’s science. No, really. Kizzmekia Corbett was a key scientist behind the development of the Moderna vaccine. She’s also a professor at Harvard and was named one of TIME’s 2021 Heroes of the Year.

Lauren Simmons

Time for a finance flashback. In 1967 Muriel “Mickie” Siebert became the first woman to buy a seat on the NYSE. And broke a 175-year streak of the Big Board being a boys’ club.

Chloé Zhao

Buzz buzz. Entrepreneur Whitney Wolfe Herd founded Bumble, a dating app where women make the first move. And after it went public, she became the world's youngest self-made female billionaire.

Katie Sowers

Katie Sowers is the first openly gay person – and second woman – to coach in the NFL. And an extra point: In 2020 she became the first woman and openly gay person to coach in a Super Bowl. Touchdown.

Whitney Wolfe Herd

Out of 93 Academy Award ceremonies, Chloé Zhao is the first woman of color (and only the second woman) to win the Oscar for her direction of Nomadland. *Standing ovation*

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Helen Gibson

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Caps off to Rachel Romer. She co-founded Guild Education, which connects companies like Chipotle and Walmart to education programs so that their employees can get free degrees. A+.

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Catherine Elizabeth Brewer

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Joy Buolamwini founded the Algorithmic Justice League, which exposes AI discrimination. Her work uncovered racial and gender biases in AI from Microsoft, IBM, and Amazon. Talk about a tech check.

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Muriel Siebert

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Marie Curie

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Another scientist to know: Marie Curie. She was the first woman to win a Nobel prize for physics, and later, chemistry — awards that only 11 women have won. We agree: More research is needed to understand why.

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Lilly Pulitzer

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Biz blast from the past: In 1959, Lilly Pulitzer opened a juice stand. But her uniform was more popular than her juice. So she designed a line of dresses that grew into a multi-million dollar fashion empire.

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Michelle Wu

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In one of America’s most historic cities, Michelle Wu is still making history as Boston’s first person of color and woman elected as mayor. And she’s Boston’s first millennial mayor on top of that. Represent.

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Jessica Watkins

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Since 2000, the International Space Station has always had an astronaut on board. But this year, Jessica Watkins will take-off as the first Black woman on the ISS Crew. Shoot for the stars.

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