Biography - Women
4000 Years of Women in Science
Inventors, scholars, mathematicians, and astronomers.
Biographies of Women Mathematicians
http://www.agnesscott.edu/lriddle/women/women.htm
Modern mathematicians and those of earliest recorded history.
http://history.house.gov/People/Search?filter=6
Sort or browse women who have served in Congress by name, position, party, state, and membership.
Contributions of 20th Century Women to Physics
"A historical archive with information about 20th century women who have made original and important contributions to physics. Organized under the names of the women, you will find brief documented descriptions of their major contributions to physics, biographical data, and a potpourri of some interesting information regarding their lives, achievements, and conditions of work."
Jewish Women: A Comprehensive Historical Encyclopedia
Features "approximately 2,000 carefully researched, written, and edited articles" depicting Jewish women from biblical times to the present. Browse by keyword, country, or time period. Also includes a glossary. From the Jewish Women's Archive (JWA).
National Women's Hall of Fame
Profiling over two hundred women who have made contributions to United States history.
Viola Gregg Liuzzo
https://www.biography.com/people/viola-gregg-liuzzo-370152
The biography of a white civil rights activist who was killed by the Ku Klux Klan.
Women in Science
https://www.sdsc.edu/ScienceWomen/
Sixteen scientists, including the first African American woman to receive a doctorate in zoology, the founder of scientific computing, and the greatest fossil finder of the nineteenth century.
Women of Invention
http://www.loc.gov/rr/scitech/SciRefGuides/womeninventors.html
A pathfinder about women inventors and patent holders from the Library of Congress.
Women's Legal History Biography Project
"How the women's movements have shaped legal history and the larger culture" is demonstrated with articles and photographs of pioneers in the profession.
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