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A “Class Act” Women We Learned About in Class… Art Mary Cassatt, Frida Kahlo, Dorothea Lange, Berthe Morisot, Georgia O'Keefe, Elisabeth Vigee-Le Brun, Marie-Denise Villers

Education Maria Montessori

English Maya Angelou, Margaret Atwood, Jane Austen, Elizabeth Bowen, the Bronte sisters, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Emily Dickinson, Mary Ann Evans, Nadine Gordimer, Zora Neale Hurston, Harper Lee, Doris Lessing, Katherine Mansfield, Jessica Mitford, Toni Morrison, Sylvia Plath, Ayn Rand, Adrienne Rich, Mary Shelley, Alice Walker, Virginia Wolfe, Mary Wollstonecraft

Family & Consumer Sciences Julia Child

Government/Contemporary Issues Hillary Clinton, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Barbara Mikulski, Kayla Mueller, Malala Yousafzai

Health Clara Barton, Elizabeth Blackwell, Gertrude Elion, Florence Nightingale, Candace Pert

History/Social Studies Jane Addams, Susan B. Anthony, Catherine Beecher, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Anne Hutchinson, Dorothea Lange, Frances Perkins, Molly Pitcher, Jeanette Rankin, Eleanor Roosevelt, Ida Tarbell, Harriet Tubman, Ida B. Wells, Mary Wollstonecraft

Languages Isabel Allende, Frida Kahlo, Simone Michel-Lévy, Eva Peron, Sonia Sotomayor

Math Hypatia, Charlotte Angas Scott

Music Nadia Boulanger, Evelyn Glennie, Kassia of Constantinople

Physical Education Wilma Rudolph

Psychology Mary Ainsworth, Dorothea Dix, Elizabeth Loftus

Science Jocelyn Bell Burnell , Rachel Carson, Madam Curie, Dr. Sylvia Earle, Rosalind Franklin, Jane Goodall, Henrietta Lacks, Henrietta Leavitt, Lise Meitner

WHAT FEMALES HAVE YOU LEARNED ABOUT WHO DESERVE TO BE RECOGNIZED?

“BAHS’s Spanish Honor Society Chapter is named after Isabel Allende” –Ms. Kozak and Ms. Pomponi

“Maria Montessori is huge for helping shape Early Childhood Education” –Ms. Leach

“My favorite kick-butt woman from the 21st Century class was Jessica Mitford, and from tenth: Sylvia Plath, Alice Walker, and Maya Angelou” –Ms. Andrews

“Our class covers Rosalind Franklin when talking about the discovery of DNA. Her work in X-ray crystallography was essential to figuring out the structure of DNA by Watson and Crick” –Mr. Weeks

“Rosalind Franklin! Her research on x-ray diffraction images of DNA was the reason why Watson & Crick got famous for the structure of DNA. Without her, they would never have gotten the double helix structure, but she was never given true recognition during her lifetime because she was a female scientist ” –Ms. Barry

“In geometry we learn "Hypatia" was a great female mathematician/philosopher in Greece” –Ms. McHale

“In French IV we talk a lot about the Resistance during World War II in France. One of the most instrumental people in the Resistance movement was Simone Michel-Lévy. She has such an interesting story” –Ms. Antonakos

“In Orchestra we talked about Nadia Boulanger, a student of Gabriel Faure, who taught American composer Aaron Copland, among others” –Mr. O’Neill

“A few notable Hispanic/Spanish women that I think are important are Frida Kahlo, who was a Mexican artist, Eva Peron, former First Lady of Argentina, and Sonia Sotomayor, the first Hispanic Supreme Court Justice” –Ms. Brady

“Mary Wollstonecraft wrote A Vindication for the Rights of Woman, a play on the French document A Vindication of the Rights of Man. It was an incredibly important piece arguing for the equality of women to men and hypothesized that the only reason women of their time appeared inferior to their male counterparts was their lack of formal education. Her arguments for educating women had a major impact on later feminist movements” –Mr. Simpson

“Elizabeth Blackwell was the first woman physician in the United States” –Ms. McDonough “Clara Barton is best known for being the founder of the American Red Cross” –Ms. McDonough

“In physics Jocelyn Bell Burnell and Lise Meitner were overlooked by the Nobel Prize committee” –Mr. Ruff

BAHS Teachers Share Their Thoughts on Some Phenomenal Females

Art Mary Cassatt, Frida Kahlo, Dorothea Lange, Berthe Morisot, Georgia O'Keefe, Elisabeth Vigee-Le Brun, Marie-Denise Villers

Education Maria Montessori

English Maya Angelou, Margaret Atwood, Jane Austen, Elizabeth Bowen, the Bronte sisters, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Emily Dickinson, Mary Ann Evans, Nadine Gordimer, Zora Neale Hurston, Harper Lee, Doris Lessing, Katherine Mansfield, Jessica Mitford, Toni Morrison, Sylvia Plath, Ayn Rand, Adrienne Rich, Mary Shelley, Alice Walker, Virginia Wolfe, Mary Wollstonecraft

Government/Contemporary Issues Hillary Clinton, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Barbara Mikulski, Kayla Mueller, Malala Yousafzai

Health Clara Barton, Elizabeth Blackwell, Gertrude Elion, Florence Nightingale, Candace Pert

History/Social Studies Jane Addams, Susan B. Anthony, Catherine Beecher, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Anne Hutchinson, Dorothea Lange, Frances Perkins, Molly Pitcher, Jeanette Rankin, Eleanor Roosevelt, Ida Tarbell, Harriet Tubman, Ida B. Wells, Mary Wollstonecraft

Languages Isabel Allende, Frida Kahlo, Simone Michel-Lévy, Eva Peron, Sonia Sotomayor

Math Hypatia, Charlotte Angas Scott

Music Nadia Boulanger, Evelyn Glennie, Kassia of Constantinople

Psychology Mary Ainsworth, Dorothea Dix,Elizabeth Loftus

Science Jocelyn Bell Burnell , Rachel Carson, Madam Curie, Dr. Sylvia Earle, Rosalind Franklin, Jane Goodall, Henrietta Lacks, Henrietta Leavitt, Lise Meitner

“BAHS’s Spanish Honor Society Chapter is named after Isabel Allende” –Ms. Kozak and Ms. Pomponi

“Maria Montessori helped shape Early Childhood Education” –Ms. Leach

Women’s History

“My favorite kick-butt woman from the 21st Century class was Jessica Mitford, and from tenth: Sylvia Plath, Alice Walker, and Maya Angelou” –Ms. Andrews

“Our class covers Rosalind Franklin when talking about the discovery of DNA. Her work in X-ray crystallography was essential to figuring out the structure of DNA by Watson and Crick” –Mr. Weeks

“Rosalind Franklin! Her research on x-ray diffraction images of DNA was the reason why Watson & Crick got famous for the structure of DNA. Without her, they would never have gotten the double helix structure, but she was never given true recognition during her lifetime because she was a female scientist” –Ms. Barry

“I teach geometry and "Hypatia" was a great female mathematician/philosopher in Greece” –Ms. McHale

“In French IV we talk a lot about the Resistance during World War II in France. One of the most instrumental people in the Resistance movement was Simone Michel-Lévy. She has such an interesting story” –Ms. Antonakos

“In Orchestra we talked about Nadia Boulanger, a student of Gabriel Faure, who taught American composer Aaron Copland, among others” –Mr. O’Neill

“A few notable Hispanic/Spanish women that I think are important are Frida Kahlo, who was a Mexican artist, Eva Peron, former First Lady of Argentina, and Sonia Sotomayor, the first Hispanic Supreme Court Justice” –Ms. Brady

“Mary Wollstonecraft wrote A Vindication for the Rights of Woman, a play on the French document A Vindication of the Rights of Man. It was an incredibly important piece arguing for the equality of women to men and hypothesized that the only reason women of their time appeared inferior to their male counterparts was their lack of formal education. Her arguments for educating women had a major impact on later feminist movements” –Mr. Simpson

“Florence Nightingale is best known for her work ministering to soldiers during the Crimean War as well as her efforts to professionalize nursing and standardize nursing education worldwide” –Ms. McDonough “Elizabeth Blackwell was the first woman physician in the United States” –Ms. McDonough “Gertrude Elion won the 1988 Nobel Prize winner in medicine for her work, along with George Hitchings, in developing drugs to treat leukemia and AIDS” –Ms. McDonough “Candace Pert is a noted neuroscientist who discovered the opiate receptor in the brain” –Ms. McDonough “Clara Barton is best known for being the founder of American Red Cross” –Ms. McDonough

“In physics Jocelyn Bell Burnell and Lise Meitner were overlooked by the Nobel prize committee” –Mr. Ruff

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Women’s History