Black and white print illustrating Victoria Woodhull, the first woman candidate for President, with her arm raised, after breaking into a polling...
Attorney General Janet Reno testifies before the house panel investigating the 1993 standoff between federal agents and members of the Branch...
President Bill Clinton and Secretary of State Madeleine Albright talk together in the White House's Oval Office, Washington DC, September 8, 1997.
Chinese political figure Ching-ling Soong , better known as Madame Sun Yat-sen, holds a piece of paper in her hands as she addresses the people of...
Birth control advocate Margaret Sanger has her mouth covered in protest of not being allowed to talk about birth control in Boston.
Washington, D.C.- Photo shows Mrs. Rebecca L. Felton, America's first and only woman Senator who came from Georgia to attend the unveiling of the...
Washington, D. C.: First Woman Director Of The U. S. Mint. Mrs. Nellie Tayloe Ross, former Governor of Wyoming, seated at her desk in the U. S....
Nominee for State Senate. New York, New York: Democrates in an upper Manhattan district chose, January 23rd, 42-year-old Mrs. Constance Baker Motley...
New York, Close-ups of Mrs Constance Baker Motley, former Manhattan Borough president, who was recently named by President Johnson to fill a vacancy...
Representative Patsy Takemoto Mink puts homemade nameplate on the door of her new office here January 1st. The only female to be elected to the 89th...
New Delhi, India- ORIGINAL CAPTION READS: Prime Minister Indira Gandhi has assumed virtually absolute power in India 6/27/1975 by jailing hundreds of...
Washington, DC-: Mrs. Charlotta A. Bass, Progressive Party candidate for Vice President, is shown as she told a news conference today that the US...
Radical political activist Angela Davis speaks at a street rally in Raleigh, North Carolina, 4th July 1974.
Washington: Professor Anita Hill is sworn-in before testifying at the Senate Judiciary hearing on the Clarence Thomas Supreme Court nomination. Hill...
Miami Beach, Florida; Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm, after losing her bid for Democratic presidential nomination, endorses Senator George McGovern...
Group of the prominent speakers who attended the Women's Centennial Congress at the Hotel Commodore are shown left to right, from the front row as;...
New Mexico Secretary of State Soledad C Chacon, the first elected woman to hold statewide office, visits Miami while holding down the governor's...
Among the prominent women who attended the meeting of the National Women's Party in Washington was Mrs. Gertrude Bonnin, nee Princess Zitkala-Sa of...
Pauli Murray of New York, the winner of a 1946 Mademoiselle Merit Award for signal achievement in law is shown here. A graduate of Howard University...
Congresswoman Jeannette Rankin is presented with the flag that flew at the House of Representatives during the passage of the suffrage amendment.
Musician and actor Harry Belafonte, Freedom Rider Diane Nash and Freedom Rider Charles Jones discussing the Freedom Riders movement, July 14, 1961.
LaDonna Harris of the Oklahoma Comanche tribe who, as president of Americans for Indian Opportunity, advocates social welfare programmes, civil...
Surrounded by mostly women, many with 'Votes for Women' sashes, American politician Governor of Kentucky Edwin P. Morrow signs his states...
Portrait of American President Franklin D. Roosevelt and his cabinet, 1933. Pictured are, seated from left, Secretary of War George H. Dern ,...
American politician US Representative Barbara Boxer speaks during a press conference , Washington DC, October 22, 1990. Standing behind her are...
View of American jurist Ruth Bader Ginsburg during her testimony before the US Senate Judiciary Committee during a confirmation hearing over her...
National Chairman Jean Westwood opening the afternoon session at a Democratic National Committee meeting to fill the tickets left vacant by the...
American politician, US Representative Jeanette Rankin stands at the podium and speaks before Congress, Washington DC, May 1917. The first female...
Representative Nancy Pelosi, D-California, speaks during a news conference after the House of Representatives voted to overrride the presidential...
View of members of the National League of Women Voters, seated around a table, holding signs that read 'VOTE', September 1924.
Jawaharlal Nehru and his sister Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit attend the Flag Salutation ceremony at the Azad Maidan in Bombay before the All India Congress...
From left to right, US politician Margaret Chase Smith with UK politicians Winston Churchill and Anthony Eden , circa 1952.
Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor is flanked by Associate Justice Antonin Scalia and Associate Justice Clarence Thomas while taking a group...
Five female delegates at the United Nations General Assembly at Flushing, New York, September 1949. From Left to right, Ulla Lindström from Sweden,...
Sirimavo Bandaranaike , the widow of S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike , the Prime Minister of Ceylon , circa 1960. She was elected Prime Minister herself on...
Republican U.S vice-presidential nominee Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin holds her son Trig Palin as Track Palin, Bristol Palin and Willow Palin look on...
Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi with Sirimavo Bandaranaike, the Prime Minister of Sri Lanka, during a three-day visit to Sri Lanka, May 1973.
Wilma Mankiller, principal chief of the Cherokee Nation, poses beside a lake. Mankiller was the first female principal chief in the history of the...
Longtime women's rights activist Elizabeth Cady Stanton, front row, fourth from left, sits with executive committee members from the International...
Medics treat the unconscious body of Civil Rights activist Amelia Boynton on a stretcher near the Edmund Pettus Bridge during the first Selma to...
Isabel Martinez de Peron, wife of President Juan Peron of Argentina, speaking at a press conference in Geneva, June 24th 1974.
British Labour Party politician, Barbara Castle, Baroness Castle of Blackburn at the Labour Party Conference, 1967.
Former Prime Minister of Pakistan, Benazir Bhutto campaigning for the Pakistan Peoples Party in the week before the Pakistani General Election,...
Prime Minister Jenny Shipley and Energy minister Max Bradford at a press conference today, Friday, over the continuation of Auckland's power crisis.
Ex-Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher leaves former Finchley constituence while campaigning for John Major's 1992 election. Two years after her...
TDs attending the meeting to ratify the Anglo-Irish Treaty that established the Irish Free State, , Circa 1922 L-R: unknown, Constance Markiewicz,...
Senator-elect Carol Moseley Braun declares her victory as the first African-American woman elected to the US Senate 03 November 1992 in Chicago, IL....
Alexis Herman Federico Pena and Aida Alvarez listen as US President Bill Clinton appoints them to positions in his cabinet during ceremonies at the...
Hanna Suchocka, 46-year-old lawyer and professor at the Poznan University, addresses the parliament after being approved as Poland's new Prime...
Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen testifies before the House Finance Committee in the Rayburn House Office Building November 4, 2015 in Washington,...
Republican presidential candidate Carly Fiorina greets guests after addressing the Quad Cities New Ideas Forum at St. Ambrose University on September...
