**Note**: Click the *History* icon at the top of this post to see all our user contributed women's history posts. You can also search for posts by typing *flair:history* into the search bar of this sub.
Our support and respect to [u/Substantial-Barber10](https://www.reddit.com/user/Substantial-Barber10/) for her ongoing series: **The Matilda Effect (Lost Women of Science).**
• [**Matilda Joslyn Gage**](https://www.reddit.com/r/4bmovement/s/s7WIldDKz4) **(1826-1898)** \- Pioneer Radical Feminist; The Matilda Effect
• [**Mileva Marić**](https://www.reddit.com/r/4bmovement/s/N8UV2CIFzf) **(1875-1948)** \- Theory of Relativity; Brownian Motion; {1 Nobel Prize}
• [**Ada Lovelace**](https://www.reddit.com/r/4bmovement/s/rGVr2FKTVc) **(1815-1852)** \- First Computer Programmer
• [**Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell**](https://www.reddit.com/r/4bmovement/s/qIJBvfJ6MV) **(1821-1910)** \- 1st Formal Female Doctor in Modern, Western Era
• [**Dr. Rosalind Franklin**](https://www.reddit.com/r/4bmovement/s/bkK4TeXGGh) **(1920-1958)** \- DNA Structure, Virus / Vaccine Research {2 Nobel Prizes}
• [**Alice Ball**](https://www.reddit.com/r/4bmovement/s/IpQbAwJDkE) **(1892-1916)** \- Developed Cure for Leprosy
• [**Dr. Chien-Shiung Wu**](https://www.reddit.com/r/4bmovement/s/oIWpGeER53) **(1912-1997)** \- Nuclear Physicist {1 Nobel Prize}
• [**Lisa Sauermann**](https://www.reddit.com/r/4bmovement/s/ffIfQZD4Q3) **(1992-alive)** \- Multiple IMO Gold Medals \~ Credit: [u/Friendly-Ad-3961](https://www.reddit.com/user/Friendly-Ad-3961/)
Other entries in my own ongoing series highlighting accomplished women and historical feminist movements, **Women in History**.
• [**Assata Shakur**](https://www.reddit.com/r/4bmovement/s/d3aRxknfoW) **(1947-2025)** \- Revolutionary; Founding Member of BPP & BLA
• [**Franca Voila**](https://www.reddit.com/r/4bmovement/s/iJl0bT7in0) **(1948 - Alive)** \- 1st Italian Woman to defy “Marry-Your-Rapist” Law
• [**Sushila Karki**](https://www.reddit.com/r/4bmovement/s/vk8BiPFFfw) **(1952 - Alive)** \- 1st Woman to Head the Government of Nepal
• [**Kathrine Switzer**](https://www.reddit.com/r/4bmovement/s/TGLEqlMyBf) **(1947 - Alive)** \- 1st Woman to Complete the Boston Marathon
• [**Dorothy Day**](https://www.reddit.com/r/4bmovement/comments/1plyx1t/women\_in\_history\_dorothy\_day/) **(1897 - 1980)** \- Suffragette, Journalist, Lifelong Activist
• [**Dr. Mae Jemison**](https://www.reddit.com/r/4bmovement/comments/1pdqbkw/women\_in\_history\_dr\_mae\_jemison/) **(1956 - Alive)** Engineer, Physician, 1st Black Woman in Space
• [**Claudette Colvin**](https://www.reddit.com/r/4bmovement/comments/1rayh46/women_in_history_claudette_colvin/) **(1939 - 2026)** Caretaker, Community Activist, Catalyst for the Montgomery Bus Boycotts
• [**First Video Editors Were Women**](https://www.reddit.com/r/4bmovement/s/TPjNZ2W6M7)
• [**1970's Feminist Vandalism**](https://www.reddit.com/r/4bmovement/comments/1m5ohsz/women\_in\_history\_1970s\_feminist\_vandalism/)
• [**Lesbians and Pride**](https://www.reddit.com/r/4bmovement/comments/1l57zhk/women\_in\_history\_lesbians\_and\_pride/)
• [**Women Against Pornography Protests**](https://www.reddit.com/r/4bmovement/comments/1kpy7pc/women\_in\_history\_women\_against\_pornography/)
• [**Liberation Day: Women of the Italian Liberation Movement**](https://www.reddit.com/r/4bmovement/comments/1k8eeq9/women\_in\_history\_liberation\_day/)
• [**Black Friday: England's Radical Suffragette Movement and Society's Violent Response**](https://www.reddit.com/r/4bmovement/comments/1qduo82/women\_in\_history\_black\_friday/)
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Adding to the list of things I did not learn from my earthquake seminar!