April 29, 2016 All-girl rocketry team going to nationals The rocketry team of Notre Dame Academy (in Los Angeles), whose members are all girls, earned a spot in the Team America Rocketry Challenge national competition.
April 28, 2016 in Modern Worthies Oksana Chusovitina The Oldest Female Olympic Gymnast Chusovitina will be competing in the 2016 summer Olympics--her seventh Olympics to date--at age 41, making her the oldest female Olympic gymnast ever.
Sophie Morigeau (1836-1916) Hard-Living, Hard-Bargaining Frontier Woman The only use this Canadian badass had for pretty pink bows was to adorn her own rib — which she amputated from her own body after an accident.
April 26, 2016 Maia Dua wins the Girls Reforming the Future Challenge Marvel Studios created the Girls Reforming the Future Challenge for high school girls to submit STEM projects with "the potential to benefit humankind." The winner, Maia Dua, created a "seeing eye" robot for the visually imparied.
April 25, 2016 Seattle Majestics The Seattle Majestics are an all-women, full-tackle football team. Part of the Women's Football Alliance, they face teams across the nation, as well as apathy from a public that ignores women's sports.
April 22, 2016 in Modern Worthies Ridhi Tariyal The Woman Building a Company Around Menstrual Blood Tariyal, along with her friend Stephen Gire, has co-founded a startup company, NextGen Jane, to gather medical information from the blood in tampons.
April 21, 2016 in Modern Worthies Zaha Hadid The First Woman to Win the Pritzker Architecture Prize Zaha Hadid, the first woman to earn Pritzker Prize, architecture's Nobel, passed away on March 31, 2016.
April 20, 2016 Harriet Tubman to be featured on the $20 bill The US Secretary of the Treasury announced plans to update the designs of several bills to honor women.
April 20, 2016 Interview with Meg Crane Meg Crane tells the story of how she invented the home pregnancy test.
April 19, 2016 in Modern Worthies Theresa Kachindamoto Terminator of Child Marriages Senior Chief Kachindamoto has worked to eliminate child marriages and sexual initiations of young girls, as well as providing for the education of girls.
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