Women of achievement

A brief biography of the personal and professional life and career of Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi.

Presents the life and accomplishments of the second woman justice named to the United States Supreme Court.

Presents the life and career of comic, actress, and talk show host Rosie O'Donnell.

Presents a biography of Jane Addams, discussing how she overcame the limitations imposed on women in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries to become a preeminent political reformer, feminist, and antiwar activist. Includes photographs, a chronology, and further reading sources.

A biography of the famous founder of the Missionaries of Charity who spent much of her life working among the poor of India.

This is a biography of Angelina Jolie, who won an Academy Award, along with a reputation for being an actress of uncommon commitment and bravery and who is also known as one of the world's best-known humanitarians, traveling the globe as a goodwill ambassador for the United Nations.

Biography of Sandra Day O'Connor, who challenged gender stereotypes by becoming the first female majority leader in the Arizona State Senate, and then the first female associate justice on the United States Supreme Court.

Presents the life and accomplishments of the second woman justice named to the United States Supreme Court.

Overcoming poverty and great obstacles, Polish-born Marie Curie became the first woman to secure a degree in physics at the Sorbonne, the first woman to be appointed a professor at the Sorbonne, and the first woman to receive two Nobel prizes, the first in physics with her husband, Pierre, and the second, by herself, for the isolation of the elements polonium and radium. She was also the first woman to be elected to the 224-year old French Academy of Medicine and, in 1995, became the first woman to be buried in the French Pantheon for her own accomplishments.