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