| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
|---|
| Alice Adams |
Novelist |
14-Aug-1926 |
27-May-1999 |
Superior Women |
| Elizabeth E. Bailey |
Educator |
1938 |
|
Professor, the Wharton School |
| Emily Greene Balch |
Activist |
8-Jan-1867 |
9-Jan-1961 |
Peace activist, Nobel Prize recipient |
| Emily Morison Beck |
Editor |
c. 1916 |
28-Mar-2004 |
Editor of Bartlett's Quotations |
| Avis Bohlen |
Diplomat |
20-Apr-1940 |
|
US Ambassador to Bulgaria, 1996-99 |
| Annie Jump Cannon |
Astronomer |
11-Dec-1863 |
13-Apr-1941 |
Census-taker of the sky |
| Stockard Channing |
Actor |
13-Feb-1944 |
|
The First Lady on The West Wing |
| Lindsay Crouse |
Actor |
12-May-1948 |
|
House of Games |
| Kathleen Foley Feldstein |
Economist |
c. 1941 |
|
Economics Studies, Inc. |
| Carol Gilligan |
Psychologist |
28-Nov-1936 |
|
In a Different Voice |
| Laurie H. Glimcher |
Educator |
c. 1950 |
|
Professor of Immunology at Harvard |
| Ellen Goodman |
Journalist |
11-Apr-1941 |
|
Columnist for The Boston Globe |
| Judith M. Gueron |
Administrator |
c. 1941 |
|
President of MDRC, 1986-2004 |
| Ursula K. Le Guin |
Novelist |
21-Oct-1929 |
|
The Left Hand of Darkness |
| Lani Guinier |
Educator |
19-Apr-1950 |
|
The Tyranny of the Majority |
| Amy Gutmann |
Educator |
1949 |
|
President, University of Pennsylvania |
| Virginia Hall |
Spy |
6-Apr-1906 |
14-Jul-1982 |
American spy |
| Margaret A. Hamburg |
Government |
1955 |
|
New York City Health Commissioner, 1991-97 |
| Elizabeth Holtzman |
Politician |
11-Aug-1941 |
|
Congresswoman from New York, 1973-81 |
| Josephine Hull |
Actor |
3-Jan-1886 |
12-Mar-1957 |
Harvey |
| Rona Jaffe |
Author |
12-Jun-1932 |
30-Dec-2005 |
Mazes & Monsters |
| Nancy Johnson |
Politician |
5-Jan-1935 |
|
Congresswoman from Connecticut, 1983-2007 |
| Mary Karr |
Author |
1954 |
|
The Liars' Club |
| Helen Keller |
Activist |
27-Jun-1880 |
1-Jun-1968 |
Deaf and blind activist |
| Maxine Kumin |
Poet |
6-Jun-1925 |
|
Up Country |
| Lisa Lampanelli |
Comic |
19-Jul-1961 |
|
Insult Comic |
| Henrietta Swan Leavitt |
Astronomer |
4-Jul-1868 |
12-Dec-1921 |
Cepheid variable |
| Ann Lewis |
Activist |
? |
|
Clinton advisor |
| Alison Lurie |
Novelist |
3-Sep-1926 |
|
Foreign Affairs |
| Jessica Tuchman Mathews |
Government |
1946 |
|
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace |
| Anne McCaffrey |
Author |
1-Apr-1926 |
|
Pern series |
| Ferrell P. McClean |
Business |
c. 1947 |
|
JP Morgan Global Energy Group |
| Mary S. Metz |
Educator |
c. 1937 |
|
President of Mills College, 1981-90 |
| Soledad O'Brien |
Journalist |
19-Sep-1966 |
|
CNN newscaster |
| Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin |
Astronomer |
10-May-1900 |
7-Dec-1979 |
Hydrogen in the Sun |
| Deborah E. Powell |
Doctor |
1939 |
|
Dean of UMN Medical School |
| Bonnie Raitt |
Singer |
8-Nov-1949 |
|
Redhaired blueswoman |
| Adrienne Rich |
Poet |
16-May-1929 |
|
An Atlas of the Difficult World |
| Alice Rivlin |
Economist |
4-Mar-1931 |
|
Founding director, Congressional Budget Office |
| Vicki L. Sato |
Business |
c. 1947 |
|
President of Vertex Pharmaceuticals, 2000-05 |
| Phyllis Schlafly |
Activist |
15-Aug-1924 |
|
Opponent of women's liberation |
| Edie Sedgwick |
Socialite |
20-Apr-1943 |
16-Nov-1971 |
Warhol factory girl |
| Nicole K. Seligman |
Attorney |
1957 |
|
General Counsel of Sony |
| Adele Simmons |
Administrator |
21-Jun-1941 |
|
President, MacArthur Foundation, 1989-99 |
| Susan Sontag |
Author |
16-Jan-1933 |
28-Dec-2004 |
Novelist, critic, intellectual |
| Gertrude Stein |
Author |
3-Feb-1874 |
27-Jul-1946 |
Avant-garde writer, salon |
| Diana Trilling |
Critic |
21-Jul-1905 |
23-Oct-1996 |
Literary critic, The Nation |
| Barbara Tuchman |
Historian |
30-Jan-1912 |
6-Feb-1989 |
A Distant Mirror |
| Marina v.N. Whitman |
Economist |
6-Mar-1935 |
|
Council of Economic Advisers, 1972-73 |
| Deborah C. Wright |
Business |
c. 1957 |
|
CEO of Carver Bancorp |
