Women's History - Call List

(Print) Use this randomly generated list as your call list when playing the game. There is no need to say the BINGO column name. Place some kind of mark (like an X, a checkmark, a dot, tally mark, etc) on each cell as you announce it, to keep track. You can also cut out each item, place them in a bag and pull words from the bag.

1. Rosie the Riveter was the star of a campaign aimed at recruiting female workers for defense industries during World War II
2. The earliest recorded female physician was Merit Ptah, a doctor in ancient Egypt who lived around 2700 B.C.
3. Jeannette Rankin was the first Woman Elected to Congress
4. Women make up 14% of active duty Military
5. On May 15, 1809, Mary Dixon Kies received the first U.S. patent issued to a woman for inventing a process for weaving straw with silk or thread.
6. Roberta “Bobbi” Gibb was the first woman to run the Boston Marathon, finishing in 3 hours, 21 minutes and 40 seconds.
7. Florence Nightingale helped promote medical training and raise hygiene standards. She is considered by many as the founder of the modern nursing profession.
8. At the first Winter Olympic Games in 1924, the only event open to women was figure skating.
9. Barbara Jordan was the first Southern African American woman elected to Congress (1972).
10. Charlotte E. Ray was the first Black American female lawyer in the United States
11. February 28, 1909 marked the first Woman's History Day
12. France celebrates Joan of Arc with a national holiday on the second Sunday in May every year for her influence in French history.
13. The first person to make the daring attempt to go over Niagara Falls in a wooden barrel was Annie Edson Taylor, a forty-three-year-old schoolteacher from Michigan
14. Jane Addams was the first woman to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
15. The world’s first novel, The Tale of Genji, was published in Japan around A.D. 1000 by female author Murasaki Shikibu.
16. Maya Angelou was an American author, actress, screenwriter, dancer, poet and civil rights activist
17. The American Red Cross was founded by Clara Barton on May 21, 1881
18. Lucy Stone was the first woman in Massachusetts to earn a college degree
19. Jane Austen is one of the few novelists in world literature who is regarded as a 'classic' and yet is widely read.
20. Eleanor Roosevelt held all-woman press conferences.
21. Rosie the Riveter was the star of a campaign aimed at recruiting female workers for defense industries during World War II
22. Margaret Chase Smith was the first woman elected to the House (1940) and Senate (1948).
23. In 1987, it became Women's History Month.
24. Ruth Bader Ginsburg was the 2nd female justice to sit on the supreme court