Nellie Bly A pioneering journalist who went undercover to expose abuse in a mental asylum. Going as far as having a Dr. declare her insane & committed to Blackwell’s Island, exposing abuse inside it. Her reporting forced reforms & changed journalism. #WomenInHistory #MAHistory tinyurl.com/24by4nn3

Kristy Lee, a folk singer from Alabama, announced she was pulling out from a free (Kennedy Center concert) on Jan. 14. “I won’t lie to you, canceling shows hurts,” she said in a social media post. But losing my integrity would cost me more than any paycheck.” #WomenInMusic shorturl.at/QYQxg

📅Dec 28th 1886: Josephine Garis Cochran was granted a patent for the dish washing machine she designed, which was an essential advancement in household technology & automation for the home. Always the hardest working machine in a home. #WomenInSTEM #WomenInHistory shorturl.at/l3ybB

📅Dec 22,1891: Asteroid 323 Brucia became the 1st asteroid discovered using photography. Named in honor of Catherine Wolfe Bruce, a prominent supporter of astronomy, providing funding for the telescope used by astronomer Max Wolf who made the discovery #WomenInSTEM #WomenInHistory shorturl.at/3LGju

📅Dec 21 1976: Patricia Roberts Harris made history as the first Black woman to serve in a U.S. Cabinet (HUD Sec) & as an ambassador. Her leadership broke barriers for generations to come. 💪🏽 What trailblazer today reminds you of her courage? #WomenInHistory #WomenInSTEM shorturl.at/baZLZ

Dec 18th, 1977: Bjork Guomundsdottir, released her 1st studio album at the age of 11, showcasing the beginning of her musical career. Fun fact is that a newly discovered butterfly species was named after her: Pterourus bjorkae (named in her honor). #WomenInHistory #WomenInSTEM shorturl.at/c4tGr

📅Dec 17th, 1947: Dorothy Fuldheim broke barriers as America's first female TV news anchor in 1947, interviewing everyone from Hitler to MLK over her 50+ year career. She proved women could command the newsroom. What news anchor today inspires you most? 📺 #WomenInHistory shorturl.at/RLj6Y

📅Dec 16th, 1918 After a National Woman’s Party conference, 300 suffragists burned President Woodrow Wilson’s speeches at Lafayette Park. As Wilson sailed to France to champion “democracy,” they demanded it at home: women’s right to vote. #WomenInHistory #WomenLeaders tinyurl.com/muhy94xe

Emily Wilding Davison, was a British suffragette who used bold protests to force women’s voting rights into the public eye. She hid inside the House of Commons overnight in 1911 so she could list Parliament as her address on the official census return. #WomenInHistory #WomenInSTEM shorturl.at/FiLPx

📅Dec 12th, 2009 Anise Parker was elected Mayor of Houston, Texas, becoming the first openly gay person to be elected mayor of a major U.S. city. Fun Fact: During her youth, she regularly volunteered as a "training dummy" for emergency rescue squads. #WomenInSTEM #WomenWhoLead shorturl.at/Ed4LI

📅Dec 11,2019: Greta Thunberg, was named TIME magazine's person of the year for her influential role in raising awareness about the urgent need for action on climate change. She is an obsessive crocheter who specializes in making frog hats. #WomenInSTEM #WomenWhoLead shorturl.at/NDGpd

Grazia Deledda became the first Italian woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature (1926), celebrating Sardinian life through powerful storytelling. Her work gave voice to marginalized communities. What book changed how you see your own roots? #WomenInHistory #NobelPrize #BooksSky shorturl.at/2E1O5

📅Dec 10, 1870 Did you know MIT’s 1st female grad, Ellen Swallow Richards, practically invented water safety standards testing 20K water samples to map pollution, launching the field of sanitary engineering. Even spending her honeymoon doing fieldwork. #WomenInHistory #WomenInSTEM shorturl.at/l60Z8

In 1883, Ida B.Wells bought a 1st class train ticket in Memphis refused to move to the "colored" car. When the conductor tried to force her out, she bit his hand & braced herself so fiercely that multiple men had to physically remove her from the car. #WomenInSTEM #WomenInHistory shorturl.at/uY2y3

📅Dec 9th 1907: Emily Bissell, created the first US Christmas seal to fund tuberculosis research. Her simple idea a festive stamps that spread joy while fighting disease democratized giving and became a fundraising model still used today. #WomenInHistory #HerStory

📅Dec. 8th 2010: Marisela Escobedo Ortiz began a sit-in protest in front of the Gov. Palace of Chihuahua in Mexico to demand justice for the victims of femicide. She started her fight after 16yr old daughter, Rubi Marisol Frayre, was murdered. #WomenInHistory #WomenSupportingWomen shorturl.at/q9slR

📅 Dec 5th 1900: Yoshioka Yayoi, A Japanese physician, educator, & women's rights activist founded the Tokyo Women's Medical University before she turned 30! 🩺 She broke barriers so women could become doctors & gain economic independence. #WomenInHistory #WomenInSTEM shorturl.at/RCVwf

📅Dec 4, 1913: Frederick Soddy published his isotope article in Nature, but it was Dr. Margaret Todd, Scottish physician & novelist, compelled to write largely under a pseudonym who coined the term! Her Greek-derived word stuck. #WomenInHistory #WomenInSTEM shorturl.at/DYrq9

📅Dec 3rd 1926, Acclaimed author Agatha Christie mysteriously disappeared for 11 days, leading to a widespread search & media attention. Her disappearance remains the subject of intrigue & speculation to this day. #WomenInHistory #WomenInLiterature shorturl.at/CTtfe

📆Dec 2nd 2012: Anna Ushenina made history, winning the Women’s World Chess♟️ Championship, becoming Ukraine’s 1st women’s world chess champion, proving strategy & resilience can change history over a board. #WomenInHistory #WomenInSTEM shorturl.at/7e2ZW

📅Dec 1st 1952: In 1952, WWII vet Christine Jorgensen became America's first openly transgender celebrity. She courageously used her platform to lecture at universities & advocate for trans equality when it meant risking everything. What modern activists inspire you? #WomenInHistory shorturl.at/YXAEI

Hypatia, was a mathematician, astronomer, & philosopher who led the Neoplatonic school in Alexandria. Her individual mathematical "style" was so distinctive that it survived through centuries of manuscript copying & can still be detected today. #WomenInSTEM #WomenInHistory shorturl.at/PHvrk

📅Nov 25th 1952: Agatha Christie's murder-mystery play The Mousetrap opened at the Ambassadors theater in London. Becoming history's longest continuously-running play. An Avid 🏄‍♀️surfer, legend has it she was one of the first British surfers to learn to ride standing up. #WomenInSTEM shorturl.at/kMrKi

Tye Leung Schulze became the first Chinese American woman to vote in a U.S. election in 1912. She worked as a translator at Angel Island and fought for immigrant women and girls. Her courage opened doors in a country that tried to keep them shut. #WomenInHistory #WomenInSTEM shorturl.at/psm1I

📅Nov 24th 1928: María Bernaldo de Quirós defied all odds to become Spain's first woman pilot, soaring above barriers at age 30! Who is a woman in your life that has inspired you to be bold? ✈️ #WomenInHistory #WomenInSTEM #Aviation shorturl.at/hVi3b

Jovita Idar was a journalist & activist who fought discrimination in early 20th century Texas. She used her writing & organizing to defend Mexican American communities & expand access to education. Her voice helped shape civil rights in the borderlands. #WomenWhoLead #WomenInSTEM shorturl.at/REmEP

📅Nov 21st 1934: Ella Fitzgerald, known as the Queen of Jazz, debuted at the Apollo Theater🎭 in Harlem. Originally planning to dance, she decided to sing after seeing the Edward sisters perform, winning that evenings amateur night contest. #WomenInHistory #JazzLegend shorturl.at/9q2fJ

📅Nov 20, 2014: Judith P. Klinman received the National Medal of Science in Chemistry; at UC Berkeley (1978) she became the first woman faculty member in the physical sciences and later chaired Chemistry, underscoring limited leadership pathways for women. #WomenInSTEM #WomenWhoLead shorturl.at/Zw09M

Claudette Colvin was 15 when she refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus. An officer made vulgar comments during her arrest, and she feared assault, yet she stood firm. Her courage came first and helped spark the civil rights movement. #WomenInHistory #CivilRights #HerStory shorturl.at/vvl0x

📅Nov 19th 2021: While President Biden underwent medical treatments, U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris briefly assumed presidential power, becoming the first female acting President of the United States. #WomenWhoLead #WomenMakingHistory shorturl.at/JfQtS

When Charlie Blackwell-Thompson gave the final "go" for Artemis I, she became the 1st woman to launch a mission to the Moon. 33 yrs at NASA led to that moment. She keeps a tiny plastic “umbrella ring” as a good‑luck charm in her pocket on launch days. #WomenInHistory #WomenInSTEM shorturl.at/L5OU6

📅Nov 18th, 1938: The Cherry🍒 Rebellion occurred in Washington, DC. when 150 women, led by Eleanor "Cissy" Patterson seized shovels from workers to save trees. A consummate philanthropist, she gave over 1/2 million dollars to the Salvation Army. #WomenWhoLead #WomenInSTEM shorturl.at/BoGUl

Mary Seacole funded her own journey to the Crimean War and built the British Hotel near the front to provide care, food, and support for soldiers. Her skill and compassion made her a pioneering figure in nursing history. #WomenInSTEM #WomenWhoLead shorturl.at/aqijX

📅Nov 17, 2010: Esther M Conwell, (Physics). Mary Ann Fox (Chemistry), Helen M Free (Medicine), and Susan Lee Lindquist, (Biological Sciences), received the National Medals of Science from President Obama. #WomenInSTEM #WomenWhoLead

Ellen Gleditsch worked with Marie Curie, established radium's half-life, proved isotopes exist, then became Norway's 2nd female professor in 1929. During WWII she hid scientists in her home. What modern scientist inspires you most? #WomenInHistory #WomenInSTEM shorturl.at/EZrEK

📅Nov 14 1946: Emily Greene Balch won the 1946 Nobel Peace Prize at 79 for lifelong peace work, fired from Wellesley in 1918 for opposing WWI. She donated her entire prize to the cause. What would you risk your career for today? #WomenInHistory #WomenInSTEM shorturl.at/67Vi4

📅On This Day in HerStory: Nov 13. In 1917, 33 women protesters were arrested near the White House while picketing for voting rights. They were sent to Occoquan Workhouse and later endured harsh treatment. #HerStory #Women’sRights shorturl.at/HUGTZ

📅Nov 12, 1815, Elizabeth Cady Stanton author of the Declaration of Sentiments was born. A pioneering leader of the women’s rights movement. An avid bicycle fan🚲Saying "woman is riding to suffrage on the bicycle". Advancing women’s suffrage. #HiddenHerStory #WomensRights shorturl.at/1T2k7

Sophie Brahe (1556–1643) defied the limits of her time. A self-taught Danish astronomer, worked with her brother Tycho. Unlike her brother, she wasn’t formally educated (universities barred women), yet she mastered astronomy, chemistry, genealogy. #WomenInHistory #WomenInSTEM shorturl.at/kVEcL

📅Nov 11 1993: The Vietnam Women's Memorial was dedicated in Washington DC. The memorial, conceived by former Army combat nurse Diane Carlson Evans and sculpted by Glenna Goodacre, honors the 265,000 women who voluntarily served during the Vietnam War. #WomenWhoLead #WomenInSTEM shorturl.at/lb0DE

📅Nov 10 1903: Mary Anderson patented the windshield wiper. Automakers rejected it, claiming drivers would be “too distracted” to use it. Her so-called distraction became mandatory on every car, yet she never earned a cent from her invention. #WomenInHistory #WomenInSTEM tinyurl.com/yxh5w584

Nov 9, 1917:Suffragist Alice Paul began a 78-hour hunger strike while jailed for picketing the White House. Authorities force-fed her and tried to declare her insane. Her protest helped turn public support toward women’s right to vote. #HiddenHerStory #AlicePaul #WomenVote

Violet Oakley the 1st American woman to earn a public mural commission. Her grand works in the Pennsylvania St. Capitol & bold voice for equality & peace made her a pioneer who turned art into activism. Using visual code of secret symbols in her art #WomenInHistory #ArtHistory tinyurl.com/yc2jnpbc

Yvonne Young Clark: Trailblazer in mechanical engineering & education first woman ME BSc at Howard, where she was not allowed to march at her own 🎓graduation ceremony. First woman ME Mgmt. MSc at Vanderbilt, NASA contributor & professor at Tennessee State #WomenInSTEM #WomenWhoLead tiny.cc/c8nu001

Norma Merrick Sklarek (1926‑2012): A pioneer in architecture first Black woman licensed architect in NY & CA, first Black woman AIA member, designer of the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo and LAX Terminal One. #WomenInHistory #Architecture

📅Nov 5 1872: Suffragist Susan B. Anthony cast a 🗳️vote in a U.S. presidential election even though women were still barred from voting and was later arrested and fined $100, which she refused to pay. #HiddenHerStory #WomenVote

Helena Florence Normanton, was the first female ⚖️barrister in the U.K. In 1924 she became the first married British woman to hold a passport in her own name (rather than her husband’s). Campaigning for women’s rights & legal reform, improving divorce law in the UK. #WomenInHistory #LegalPioneer

📅Nov 4 1960: Jane Goodall, observed chimpanzees creating tools, signifying the first documented observation of tool use in non-human animals. #WomenInSTEM #WomenInHistory tinyurl.com/3zbujbwz

Sofya Vasilyevna Kovalevskaya (1850‑1891) A trailblazing mathematician who earned the 1st modern‑era PhD in mathematics, became the first woman full professor of mathematics, & made key advances in analysis, partial differential equations,& mechanics #WomenInHistory #WomenInSTEM tinyurl.com/32c3v3jt