Curriculum - Women’s History

  1. Baker Dances in La Revue nègre
  2. Barbara Jordan
  3. Barbara W. Tuchman
  4. Barbara Walters
  5. Bathsheba
  6. Baulieu Develops RU-486, a Pill That Induces Abortion
  7. Bea Medicine
  8. Beatrice Webb and Sidney Webb
  9. Beatrix Jones Farrand
  10. Beatrix Potter
  11. Beauvoir’s The Second Sex Anticipates the Women’s Movement
  12. Beginning of the Fronde
  13. Beijing Hosts U.N. Fourth World Conference on Women
  14. Bell Discovers Pulsars, the Key to Neutron Stars
  15. Belva A. Lockwood
  16. Benedict Publishes Patterns of Culture
  17. Bern Conference Prohibits Night Work for Women
  18. Bertha von Suttner
  19. Bessie Smith
  20. Bessie Smith Records “Downhearted Blues”
  21. Betsy Ross
  22. Betty Friedan
  23. Bevis Describes Amniocentesis as a Method for Disclosing Fetal Genetic Traits
  24. Bhutto Becomes the First Woman Elected to Lead a Muslim Country
  25. Bhutto’s Pakistan People’s Party Returns to Power
  26. The Bikini Swimsuit Is Introduced
  27. Billie Holiday
  28. Billie Holiday Begins Her Recording Career
  29. Billie Jean King
  30. Birth Control Pills Are Tested in Puerto Rico
  31. Blalock Performs the First “Blue Baby” Operation
  32. Boudicca
  33. British Queen Elizabeth Begins Paying Taxes After Castle Fire
  34. British Women Gain the Vote
  35. The Brontë Sisters
  36. Brown Gives Birth to the First “Test-Tube” Baby
  37. Buffy Sainte-Marie
  38. Cable Act
  39. Calamity Jane
  40. Campbell Becomes Canada’s First Woman Prime Minister
  41. Canada’s Pay Equity Act
  42. Canadian Bill of Rights Prohibits Sexual Discrimination
  43. Canadian Women Gain the Vote
  44. Carrie Chapman Catt
  45. Carry Nation
  46. Carson McCullers
  47. Carson Publishes Silent Spring
  48. Catharine A. MacKinnon
  49. Catharine Beecher
  50. Catherine de Médicis