Women Who Dared

Martha Hay

Female lumber company owner in late 19th c.

Tags: baroness, business, industrial revolution, lumber industry, Saginaw

First female member of the Saginaw City Council and first female chair of the Saginaw County Commission

Tags: city council, county commission, Saginaw, Zonta

President of Wellesley College in the late 19th c. and ardent supporter of women's education

Tags: coeducation, female college president, Saginaw High, Wellesley

First American woman to be killed in action during WWII

Tags: flight nurse, killed in combat, pilot, WWII

Taught mathematics and astronomy at the university level in the 1910s

Tags: astronomy, dean of women, higher education, mathematics, national woman's party

Some women who were the first to integrate male-dominated fields

First female firefighter in Saginaw, Michigan

Tags: African-American female firefighter, female firefighter

Female candidate for president of the United States in the 19th c. under the "Equal Rights" party.

Tags: female editor, female first, female presidential candidate, female presidential candidates, free love, spiritualism, suffrage, Victoria Woodhull, woman stockbroker

Pioneer of women's movement in China

Tags: Chinese Communist party, feminism, labor reform

Prolific writer and activist for the preservation of Native-American culture