- Elizabeth Holtzman
Elizabeth Holtzman (born August 11, 1941, in Brooklyn, New York) is an American Democratic politician. A graduate of Radcliffe College and Harvard Law School, she was the youngest woman ever to serve in United States House of Representatives, having been elected at the age of thirty-one in 1972 from New York's 16th Congressional District, having defeated-in the Democratic primary-Judiciary Committee chairman Emanuel Celler, … - Gertrude Stein
Gertrude Stein (February 3, 1874 - July 27, 1946) was an American writer and is considered to have acted as a catalyst in the development of modern art and literature. She spent most of her life in France. - Alice Rivlin
Alice Mitchell Rivlin (born March 4, 1931 in Philadelphia) is an economist, a former U.S. Cabinet official, and an expert on the budget. Rivlin is an alumna of The Madeira School, earned a B.A. at Bryn Mawr College in 1952 and earned a Ph.D. from Radcliffe College in 1958. She has been affiliated several times with the Brookings Institution, including stints from 1957-66, 1969-1975, 1983-1993, and 1999-present. - Linda Greenhouse
Linda Greenhouse is the Pulitzer Prize winning reporter for "The New York Times", covering the United States Supreme Court. She has covered the Court since 1978, with the exception of two years during the mid-1980s during which she covered the Congress. She has also been a regular guest on the PBS program "Washington Week" since 1980. - Amy Gutmann
Amy Gutmann (1949 -), Ph.D., is the 8th President of the University of Pennsylvania. She is also a political theorist who taught at Princeton University from 1976 to 2004 and served as its Provost. Upon succeeding former University of Pennsylvania president Judith Rodin, Gutmann became the first female president to succeed a female president of an Ivy League university. In her inaugural address, she launched the Penn Compact, … - Lani Guinier
Lani Guinier (born 1950) is arguably one of the foremost American civil rights scholars in the United States. The first black woman tenured professor at Harvard Law School, Guinier's work spans a range of topics, including professional responsibilities of public lawyers, the relationship between democracy and the law, the role of race and gender in the political process, equity in college admissions, and affirmative action. - Abigail Folger
Abigail Anne Folger was an American coffee heiress, debutante, socialite, volunteer social worker, civil rights devotee and member of the prominent United States Folger family. She was the great-great-granddaughter of J. A. Folger, the founder of Folgers Coffee. - Helen Keller
Helen Adams Keller (June 27, 1880 - June 1, 1968) was a deafblind American author, activist and lecturer. - Ursula K. Le Guin
Ursula Kroeber Le Guin (born October 21, 1929) is an American author. She has written novels, poetry, children's books, essays, and short stories, most notably in the fantasy and science fiction genres. She was first published in the 1960s. Her works explore Taoist, anarchist, feminist, psychological and sociological themes. She has received several Hugo and Nebula awards, … - Katha Pollitt
Katha Pollitt (born October 14, 1949 in New York City) is an American feminist writer. - Nancy Johnson
Nancy Lee Johnson (born January 5 1935, Chicago, Illinois) is an American politician. Johnson was a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from 1983 to 2007, representing first the 6th district and later the 5th District of Connecticut following the elimination of the 6th district. - Ellen Schrecker
Ellen Wolf Schrecker, Ph.D. (born August 4, 1938) is a professor of American history at Yeshiva University. She is primarily known for her work in the history of McCarthyism. She graduated "magna cum laude" from Radcliffe College in 1960 and earned her M.A. in 1962 and her doctorate in 1974, both from Harvard University. She has taught at Harvard, Princeton, New York University, the New School for Social Research, and Columbia. - Carol Gilligan
Carol Gilligan (1936-) is an American feminist, ethicist, and psychologist best known for her work with and against Lawrence Kohlberg on ethical community and ethical relationships, and certain subject-object problems in ethics. - Lois Murphy
Lois Murphy (born 1963 in Hempstead, New York) is a Democrat from the state of Pennsylvania, who unsucessfully ran for the U.S. House in Pennsylvania's 6th congressional district (map) against the Republican incumbent, Jim Gerlach in 2004 and 2006. - Tenley Albright
Tenley Emma Albright, M.D. (born July 18, 1935 in Newton Centre, Massachusetts) became the first American female skater to win a figure skating Olympic gold medal, at the 1956 Winter Olympics in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy. She also won the U.S. Championships 5 times, from 1952 to 1956; was World Champion in 1953 and 1955; and had been the silver medalist at the 1952 Winter Olympics. Albright retired from competitive skating after the 1956 season. - Anne McCaffrey
Anne Inez McCaffrey (born April 1, 1926) is an American science fiction author best known for her "Dragonriders of Pern" series. - Barbara Tuchman
Barbara Wertheim Tuchman (January 30, 1912 - February 6, 1989) was an American historian and author, and became best known for "The Guns of August", a history of the prelude and first month of World War I. Tuchman was the daughter of the banker Maurice Wertheim and granddaughter of Henry Morgenthau Sr., Woodrow Wilson's Ambassador to Turkey. - Carla J. Shatz
Carla J. Shatz, Ph.D., is an American neurobiologist and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National Academy of Sciences, and the Institute of Medicine. Carla Shatz graduated from Radcliffe College in 1969 with a B.A. in chemistry. She received an M.Phil. in Physiology from the University College London in 1971. In 1976, she received a Ph.D. in neurobiology from Harvard Medical School, … - Deborah Batts
The Honorable Deborah A. Batts (born 13 April 1947) is a U.S. federal judge, currently serving on the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. She is the first and, as of 2006, the only openly LGBT person to have served as a judge of the United States federal courts. Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, she was educated at Radcliffe College and Harvard Law School. - Mary Parker Follett
Mary Parker Follett (1868-1933) was an American social worker, consultant, and author of books on democracy, human relations, and management. She worked as a management and political theorist, introducing such phrases as "conflict resolution," "authority and power," and "the task of leadership." Follett was born into an affluent Quaker family in Massachusetts and spent much of her early life there. In 1898 she graduated from Radcliffe College. - Barbara Epstein
Barbara Epstein was a literary editor and a founding co-editor of the "New York Review of Books". Epstein, née Zimmerman, was born in Boston, Massachusetts, United States, to a Jewish-American family, and graduated from Radcliffe College in 1949. Ms. Epstein rose to prominence as the editor at Doubleday of Anne Frank's "Diary of a Young Girl", among other books. She then worked at Dutton, McGraw-Hill and "The Partisan Review". - Josephine Preston Peabody
Josephine Preston Peabody (1874? - 1922) was an American poet and dramatist. She was born in New York and educated at the Girls' Latin School, Boston, and at Radcliffe College. From 1901 to 1903 she was instructor in English at Wellesley. In 1906 she married Prof. L. S. Marks from Harvard University. The Stratford-on-Avon prize went to her in 1909 for her drama "The Piper", which was produced in England in 1910; and in America at the New Theatre, … - Judith Palfrey
Judith Palfrey (b. 1945) is the T. Berry Brazelton Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School and the author of "Community Child Health: An Action Plan for Today" (1995) and "Child Health In America: Making A Difference Through Advocacy" (2006), and co-author of the "Disney Encyclopedia of Baby and Childcare" (1999). She is also the Master of Adams House along with her husband Sean Palfrey at Harvard University. Dr. - Jessica Mathews
Jessica Tuchman Mathews (b. 1946) is the president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, a foreign policy think tank in Washington D.C. She has held the post since 1997. Her career includes posts in the executive and legislative branches of government, in management and research in the nonprofit arena, and in journalism. - Judith Ann Wilson Rogers
Judith Ann Wilson Rogers (born 1939, New York City) is a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. She was nominated by President William J. Clinton to replace current Associate Justice Clarence Thomas and is the first African-American female to sit on the circuit. She joined the circuit in 1994. She received an A.B. from Radcliffe College in 1961, … - Bonnie Raitt
Bonnie Lynn Raitt (born November 8, 1949) is a nine-time Grammy award-winning American blues singer-songwriter and guitarist who was born in Burbank, California, the daughter of Broadway musical star John Raitt. - Rona Jaffe
Rona Jaffe (June 12, 1932 - December 30, 2005) was an American novelist. Born in New York, New York, she wrote her first and most known book, "The Best of Everything", while working as an associate editor at Fawcett Publications in the 1950s. Published in 1958, it was later made into a movie, starring Joan Crawford. The book has been described as distinctly "pre-women's liberation" in the way it depicts women in the working world. - Anne Fadiman
Anne Fadiman (born August 7, 1953) is an American author, editor and teacher. A native of New York, Anne Fadiman is the daughter of the renowned literary, radio and television personality Clifton Fadiman and World War II correspondent and author Annalee Jacoby Fadiman. She attended Harvard University, graduating in 1975 from Radcliffe College. Fadiman's 1997 book "The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down" won the National Book Critics Circle Award. - Helen Reimensnyder Martin
Helen Reimensnyder Martin (1868-1939) was an American author. She was born at Lancaster, Pa., studied at Swarthmore and at Radcliffe colleges; and married Frederic C. Martin in 1889. She became known for her stories of "the Pennsylvania Dutch," the shorter ones contributed to "Leslie's", the "Century", the "Cosmopolitan", the "Ladies' Home Journal", and other magazines. - Nancy Chodorow
Nancy Julia Chodorow is a feminist sociologist and psychoanalyst born 20 January 1944 in New York City. She graduated from Radcliffe College in 1966 and later received her PhD in sociology from Brandeis University. She has written many influential books, including "The Reproduction of Mothering: Psychoanalysis and the Sociology of Gender (1978)"; "Feminism and Psychoanalytic Theory (1989)"; "Femininities, Masculinities, … - Marjorie Grene
Marjorie Glicksman Grene (born 1910) is an American philosopher. She is known as a writer both on existentialism and the philosophy of science, especially philosophy of biology. As of 2005 (aged 95) she was Professor Emerita of philosophy at Virginia Tech. Her first degree was in zoology, from Wellesley College; she then received a doctorate in philosophy from Harvard University (Radcliffe College). She studied with Martin Heidegger and Karl Jaspers, … - Jennifer Gordon
Jennifer Gordon founded the Workplace Project in 1992, a non-profit worker center in Hempstead, New York, which organizes immigrant workers, mostly from Central and South America. The Workplace Project lobbied for and won a strong wage enforcement law in New York state. Gordon was named a MacArthur Fellow in 1999. She is the author of "Suburban Sweatshops: The Fight for Immigrant Rights" (ISBN 0-674-01524-X). - Maribel Vinson
Maribel Yerxa Vinson-Owen (born October 12, 1911 - died February 15, 1961), was an American figure skating champion and one of her country's top figure skating instructors. - Norma Farber
Norma Holzmann Farber (6 August 1909 - 21 March 1984) was an American children's book writer and poet. The Poetry Society of America presents an annual award in Farber's honor; it is presented for a first book of original poetry written by an American. Farber authored six books of poems and 18 children's books. Her poetry was first published in the 1940s, and she was still active in writing until her death from vascular disease in 1984. - Francine Prose
Francine Prose (born in 1947 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American novelist. She graduated from Radcliffe College in 1968, and received a Guggenheim fellowship in 1991. She has sat on the board of judges for the PEN/Newman's Own Award, and her novel "Blue Angel", a satire about sexual harassment on college campuses, was a finalist for the National Book Award. She is now teaching at Bard College. - Marie Winn
Marie Winn, a journalist, author and birdwatcher, is known for her books and articles on the birds of Central Park, for her "Wall Street Journal" ornithology column, for her critical coverage of television, and for her role in the incident that kicked off the quiz show scandals that rocked American entertainment in the late 1950s. - Emily Vermeule
Emily Dickinson Townsend Vermeule was an American classical scholar and archaeologist. She was an undergraduate at Bryn Mawr (1950), and earned a master's degree from Radcliffe (1954), and a Ph.D. from Bryn Mawr (1956). As a Fulbright Scholar in 1950, she attended the American School of Classical Studies at Athens; as a Catherwood Fellow three years later, she studied at Oxford University. She married the archaeologist Cornelius Clarkson Vermeule III in 1957. - Mary E. Switzer
Mary Elizabeth Switzer (February 16, 1900 - October 16, 1971), was an American public administrator and social reformer. She notably shaped the 1954 Vocational Rehabilitation Act, which provided a great expansion of vocational rehabilitation service for people with disabilities. She publicized the government's growing role in vocational rehabilitation and encouraged expansion of vocational rehabilitation projects among non-governmental organizations. - Mary Lefkowitz
Mary R. Lefkowitz (born 1935) and Professor Emerita of Classical Studies at Wellesley College in Massachusetts, USA. She earned her B.A. from Wellesley College in 1957 and received her Ph.D. in Classical Philology from Radcliffe College (Harvard University) in 1961. She has published on subjects including mythology, women in antiquity, Pindar, and fiction in ancient biography. - Henrietta Swan Leavitt
Henrietta Swan Leavitt (July 4 1868 - December 12 1921) was an American astronomer, and the deaf daughter of a Congregational church minister. She was born in Lancaster, Massachusetts to an old Massachusetts Puritan family who had settled in the Massachusetts Bay Colony in the early part of the seventeenth century.
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