Women in Media and History

• Margaret Thatcher was the only woman to have served as a party leader in Britain.
• She was also the only woman to have become prime minister of Britain.

Rosa Parks was a Civil rights activist in US. She refused to surrender her seat to a white passenger on a segregated Montgomery, Alabama bus, which spurred on the 381-day Montgomery Bus Boycott that helped launch nationwide efforts to end segregation of public facilities.

Althea Gibson.

Daisy Ridley portrays the character Rey in the Star Wars sequel trilogy. The other actresses listed are known for different roles.

Emma Watson played the character Hermione Granger throughout the Harry Potter film series. The other options are characters played by different actresses.

Halle Berry became the first African-American woman to win the Academy Award for Best Actress in 2002 for her role in Monster's Ball.

Awkwafina was not nominated for an Academy Award for her role in The Farewell, although she did win a Golden Globe.

Susan B Anthony (U.S) fought for Women' Rights in the US ,including the right to control property and helped sprearhead adoption of the 19th amendment.

Jennifer Lawrence is a female, so the correct term for her profession is 'actress'. 'Actor' is gender-neutral but often used for males, while 'actory' and 'acting' are incorrect in this context.

National Women's Suffrage Association (NWSA) was started in 1869 by Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton in New York. NWSA worked to secure women's right to vote through a federal constitutional amendment. Stanton addressed issues such as women's parental, custody rights, property rights, employment, and income rights, divorce, birth control, etc.

Margaret Sanger was a prominent birth control activist who founded the American Birth Control League, which later became the Planned Parenthood Federation of America.

• Bessie Coleman was the first qualified black female pilot.
• Between 1922 to 1925 she flew in shows all shows all over America and raised enough money to set up her own flying school.

Margaret Sanger (1879-1966) was the American nurse who founded the organization that became Planned Parenthood Federation of America in 1921 (originally American Birth Control League). She was a pioneer in the birth control movement and reproductive rights advocacy.

Mary Seacole, a Jamaican nurse who served in the Crimean War, faced financial hardship later in life, and a public appeal supported by soldiers who knew her work helped raise funds for her.