Women and pioneers by céline despréaux

Ons Jabeur

celoune9 — 2025-02-12 14:18:44 UTC

She is a tennis player from Tunisia.

She is the first African woman to reach the ranking of world number 2. She is also the first African to play a grand slam tournament singles final.

Kathrine Switzer (Alya, 4F)

2025-02-27 15:38:23 UTC

Kathrine Switzer is the first woman to have run a marathon. She managed to complete the marathon in 4 hours and 20 minutes, despite the other male competitors who wanted to prevent her from running with them. Women couldn't run marathons until 1972. Kathrin Switzer won the New York marathon in 1974.

Marie Curie (Emilie 4A)

2025-02-27 18:49:08 UTC

Marie Curie is a Polish physicist and chemist. She is the first woman to win 2 Nobel Prizes and in 1995 was the first woman admitted to the Pantheon for her merits.

Junko Tabei (Yosra 4A)

2025-02-28 12:04:36 UTC

Junko Tabei is a Japanese mountaineer, she is a pioneer woman since she was the first woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest in 1975. A pioneer in a male-dominated field, she paved the way for women in mountaineering and inspired many generations to follow their dreams despite the challenges.

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Coco Chanel (Alexane 4A)

alexanecouque — 2025-02-28 19:54:35 UTC

Gabriel Chanel is a great French fashion designer. We can say that she is a pioneer because she has freed women from the chackles of clothing. She was a poor little girl who started sewing at the age of 18, she started singing in cafes and we gave her the nickname "coco". A rich man, Étienne Balsan was seduced by her creation. She then entered the high society

Naomi Campbell (Lénaëlle 4A)

2025-03-01 10:26:42 UTC

Naomi Campbell is an English model. She was born on May 22nd 1970 in London. She is the first black model to grace the cover of a fashion magazine, that's why she is a pioneer. It is progress whose she is proud of; and which she has never hesitated to fight for. Now, she is 57 and she continues to impress people.

Amelia Earhart (Nohlan 4F)

2025-03-01 14:38:34 UTC

Ruby Bridges (Mélina 4A)

2025-03-01 15:16:18 UTC

Ruby Bridges is the first African-American child to attend a white school in 1960, when segregated schools officially entered in the United States. On her first day of school, she was escorted by police sent by the president of the United States because there were many racist and anti- desegregation protesters against a colored child attending a white school. Her image is remembered in Norman Rockwell’s painting « The Problem We All Live With ».

Simone Biles (Nathéo 4F)

2025-03-01 18:39:24 UTC

Simone Biles is considered a pioneer for her groundbreaking achievements in gymnastics and her advocacy for mental health awareness. She is the first American gymnast, with a total of 30 medals in her career, including 23 gold medals. She has also introduced several new gymnastics moves that are now named after her.

Bessie Coleman (Lola 4A)

2025-03-01 19:29:42 UTC

Bessie Coleman was the first African American and Native American woman to earn a pilot's license. Facing significant racial and gender barriers in the U.S., she traveled to France to achieve her dream. In 1921, she became a licensed pilot and later performed daring aerial stunts as a barnstormer, earning the nickname "Queen Bess." Despite her early death in a plane crash in 1926, her legacy continues to inspire future generations in aviation.

Joan Jett (Lylwenn 4A)

2025-03-01 21:55:24 UTC

Joan Jett revolutionized rock by imposing her style in a masculine universe, proving that women had their place in hard rock.

Born on September 22, 1958, she is an iconic rock figure, she is an American singer, guitarist, and producer. She began her career with The Runaways, an all-female band that broke rock conventions in the 1970s. This made her a pioneer of independent rock.

Kamala Harris (Enzo 4A)

2025-03-02 09:48:50 UTC

she was born on October 20, 1964 in Oakland, California.She is an American stateswoman. A member of the Democratic Party, she is notably the 49th vice-president of the United States, the first woman to hold this position, in office from January 20, 2021 to January 20, 2025.

Harriet Tubman

2025-03-02 10:44:20 UTC

Harriet Tubman was the first woman to drive many refugees fleeing slavery in the United States. She became the public face of the underground “railroad” in British North America. She also fought racism and wanted women to get the right to vote.

Maryse Bastié (Yanis 4A)

2025-03-02 11:00:33 UTC

Maryse Bastié was a French aviator and a sports legend. She was the first woman to set numerous records in her time, both in distance and duration. Alongside Adrienne Bolland and Helene Boucher, she advocated for women’s right to vote.

Mother Teresa (Farida 4F)

2025-03-02 11:17:25 UTC

Mother teresa was Indian and Albanian. She was one of the first women to help the poor. She also gave her name to our home THE MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA that's why she is a pioneer.

Rosa Parks (Apolline 4A)

2025-03-02 13:55:27 UTC

ROSA PARKS was an American woman. She was the first woman not to give up her seat to a White man on the bus during segregation. This is what makes her a pioneer.

Lisa Leslie (Zoé 4f)

2025-03-02 14:36:15 UTC

Lisa Leslie, was born on July 7, 1972 in Gardena, California. She is an American basketball player. She is the first female basketball player to win four consecutive Olympic titles. Her compatriot Teresa Edwards also holds four gold medals, but won them in six Olympiads.

Lisa Leslie is also a triple world champion.

Ada Lovelace (Axel 4A)

2025-03-02 19:55:36 UTC

She is considered the first computer programmer in history.
In the 19th century, she designed the first algorithm intended to be executed by a machine, long before modern computers were invented. Her work laid the foundation for computer science and continues to inspire scientists and engineers today.

Bessie Mae Kelley (Angel 4F)

2025-03-02 20:39:34 UTC

Bessie Mae Kelley was an American entertainer. Believed to be the first woman to create a work of hand-drawn animation, Kelley began her career in animation in 1917, directing and animating short films that mixed animation and live action.

Nadia Comaneci (Lauria 4F)

2025-03-03 10:06:00 UTC

Nadia Comăneci was born on November 12, 1961. She is a Romanian gymnast. She is a five-time Olympic gold medalist, all in individual events. In 1976, at the age of 14, Comăneci was the first gymnast to be awarded a perfect score of 10 at the Olympic Games.At the same Games she received six more perfect 10s for events en route to winning three gold medals. During her career, she won nine Olympic medals.

Joan of Arc (MaïmounaF)

2025-03-03 13:14:42 UTC

Joan of Arc is a patron saint of France, honored as a defender of the French nation for her role in the siege of Orléans and her insistence on the coronation of Charles VII of France during the Hundred Years' War. She is the first martyr.

Katherine Johnson (Soline 4F)

2025-03-03 14:22:21 UTC

Katherine Johnson was an American mathematician and space engineer.

She contributed to the aerospace programs of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) and later the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).

Simone Veil

2025-03-03 14:24:01 UTC

Simone Veil, born Simone Jacob on July 13, 1927 in Nice (Alpes-Maritimes) and died on June 30, 2017 in Paris, is a French magistrate and stateswoman. She is famous thanks to her role for decriminalizing the use of voluntary termination of pregnancy (abortion), a law that would later be commonly referred to as the "Veil Law".

Oprah Winfrey (Majd 4F)

2025-03-03 14:48:23 UTC

Oprah Winfrey is an American TV host and producer. She is the first African American woman to become a billionaire.

Dian Fossey (Younoussa 4A)

2025-03-03 15:28:12 UTC

Dian Fossey was an American primatologist.
 She is the first woman who got close to gorillas She lived with them for 13 years in Rwanda.

Ada Hegerberg (Timothé Bellembois 4A)

2025-03-03 16:04:01 UTC

Ada Hegerberg, born July 10, 1995 in Molde, is a Norwegian international footballer playing as a striker with Olympique Lyonnais. She is the younger sister of BK Hacken player Andrine Hegerberg. In 2018, she won the first France Football woman Ballon d'or.

Vivienne Westwood (Zoé 4A)

2025-03-03 16:39:21 UTC

She is a British businesswoman stylist born on April 8, 1941 in Hollingworth. Nicknamed "the enfant terrible of fashion" she is a pioneer because she is known by her profession for her eccentric and colorful creations and especially for her hats.

Mia Hamm (Hamza 4A)

2025-03-03 16:51:48 UTC

Mia Hamm was an American football player. She was born on 17th March 1972. She was the best female player in the world and she played an important role to make woman soccer popular.

Natoo (Marion 4A)

2025-03-03 17:03:31 UTC

Natoo is French. She was born in Paris on February 8, 1985. She created her youtube channel in 2011. She is a pioneer because she is the first woman on youtube to do humor with 5.17 million subscribers on her youtube channel.

Aretha Franklin (Teresa 4F)

2025-03-03 17:12:32 UTC

She was born on March 25,1942 in Memphis(USA) and died on August 16,2018. She was a singer. She was the first woman to enter the Rock and Roll Hall of fame.

Maud Stevens Wagner (Nola 4A)

2025-03-03 17:23:29 UTC

Maud Stevens Wagner was born in the US, in 1877.

She worked first in a circus, and was a famous trapesist, before meeting her husband, Gus Wagner in 1904.

They opened together a tattoo shop and had a lot of success.

Maud Stevens Wagner is a pioneer, she was the first ever woman tattoo artist, when it was an art only reserved to men.

Marinette Pichon (Timothée Bieniewicz 4A)

timotheebieniewicz57 — 2025-03-03 18:38:50 UTC

Marinette pichon was born on 26 November 1975. She is French, she was the first iconic French woman soccer player and the first French woman to play in the USA. Marinette Pichon had a difficult childhood because of a violent and alcoholic father.

Elizabeth Blackwell (Manon 4A)

2025-03-03 18:40:51 UTC

Elizabeth Blackwell is the first American woman to receive a medical degree. In 1853 she created her own hospital where she trained nurses and in 1868 she created a medical college for the training of woman doctors.

LÉNA SITUATIONS (Olivia 4A)

2025-03-03 18:47:56 UTC

Léna Mahfouf, better known as Léna Situations,was born on November 19th 1997 in Paris. She is an important girl since she is a French-Algerian web videographer, influencer and entrepreneur. In 2022, she was the first French influencer invited to the famous Met Gala in New York. She is the first content creator to enter the Grévin Museum.

Anna Bissel (Yleana 4°A)

2025-03-03 20:09:12 UTC

Anna Bissel was American. She was a great business woman. She was the first woman in the world to become the CEO of a large company. She is also the queen of the mechanical broom, something that her husband invented.

Valentina Terechkova (Youssef 4F)

2025-03-03 20:17:46 UTC

She is a Russian politician. She was the first woman to go to space in 1963.

Malala Yousafzai (Loa 4F)

kairayoonys — 2025-03-04 15:44:35 UTC

Malala Yousafzai is a child education activist. She was born on 12 July 1997 in Pakistan and she was shot in the head at 15 by Talibans for continuing to go to school although it was forbidden for girls.She survived the attack.

Malala Yousafzai became the youngest person to win the Nobel Peace Prize.

Imane Khelif (Marie 4F)

2025-03-04 20:31:13 UTC

Imane Khelif is Algerian. She is a professional boxer. She won the gold medal at the Paris Olympic games. She faced a lot of criticism because she has a very masculine physical appearance. She is the first Algerian boxer to win an Olympic champion title.

Josephine Baker (Yessai 4A)

2025-03-04 20:52:53 UTC

Josephine Baker is American and French singer. Josephine Baker born in June 3, 1906 in United States and died in April 12, 1975 in France. She fights against racism, and in particular defends the rights of blacks in the United States.

Susan B Antony (Emma 4F)

2025-03-04 23:11:39 UTC

Susan B Anthony was American. She was an activist for women's rights. She was the first woman to go voting even if women didn't have the right to vote.

Kathryn Bigelow (Nail 4F)

2025-03-05 13:49:55 UTC

Kathryn Bigelow is an American film director. She studied film theory and criticism at Columbia University.She was the first woman to win the Academy Award for Best Director

Bethany Hamilton (Maël L 4F)

celoune9 — 2025-03-05 14:58:43 UTC

Bethany is an American surfer. She lost an arm because a shark attacked her. She is the first disabled person to win an able-bodied competition.

Simone de Beauvoir (Marine 4A)

2025-03-05 17:04:09 UTC

Simone de Beauvoir was a French writer. Considered a key figure in feminism, she participated in the women’s liberation movement in the 1970s. She is remembered as an important figure in feminism and politics.

Caster Semenya

2025-03-07 09:34:51 UTC

She is a track and field athlete from South Africa. She won 2 olympic gold medals and 3 world champion titles (800m). She has a sex development disorder and now she can't run because the world athletics changed the rule about testosterone quantity.

Marieke Vervoort

2025-03-07 09:37:55 UTC

She was a Belgian disabled athlete. She won a lot of medals at the London 2012 paralympics and at the Rio 2016 paralympics. She also became world champion in 2015. She died in 2019 by euthanasia.

Yusra Mardini

2025-03-07 09:41:22 UTC

She is a competition swimmer from Syria. She crossed several countries to flee the war. She participated to the Rio 2016 olympic game with the first refugee olympic athletes team. A movie about her, the Swimmers, has been released on Netflix.

Thank you 4A and 4F!

celoune9 — 2025-03-07 14:19:22 UTC