The 216 women depicted in this cross stitch design are just a few of the many women who made major contributions
to the arts, medicine, writing, politics, sports, science, and leadership since the dawn of time. Some are known
to almost everyone despite, in many cases, their having to overcome family and societal efforts to prevent them
from achieving greatness. But how many know of Belva Lockwood, the first female attorney in America to practice
before the United States Supreme Court; or Lise Meitner, the Austrian nuclear physicist, whose partner was awarded
the Nobel Prize in chemistry for her discovery; or Murasaki Shikibu, who wrote Tales of Genji, the first novel; or
Rebecca Crumpler, the first black woman to receive a medical degree in America?
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