By: Suzette Cotto NFBPWC Public Relations Chair

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December Highlights in US Women’s History

December Highlights in US Women’s History

• December 9, 2002 – Award-winning ABC News journalist, Michele Norris, becomes the first African American female regular co-host of National Public Radio’s news magazine, All Things Considered, she stepped down in 2012

• December 10, 1869 – Wyoming is the first territory to give women the right to vote

• December 10, 1938 – Pearl S. Buck receives the Nobel Prize for Literature for The Good Earth

• December 13, 1993 – Susan A. Maxman becomes first woman president of the American Institute of Architects in its 135 year history

• December 14, 1961 – President’s Commission on the Status of Women is established to examine discrimination against women and ways to eliminate it

• December 14, 1985 – Wilma Mankiller is sworn in as principal chief of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma – the first woman in modern history to lead a major Native American tribe

• December 17, 1993 – Judith Rodin is named president of Univ. of Pennsylvania, the first woman to head an Ivy League institution

• December 28, 1967 – Muriel Siebert becomes the first woman to own a seat on the N.Y. Stock Exchange

(Source: https://nationalwomenshistoryalliance.org/december/)