Honorees

August 26, 2000, marked the centennial of the ratification of the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, guaranteeing women the right to vote. There were two approaches to winning the vote for women: a nationwide push and a state-by-state fight. Selina Solomons was a key player in the California campaign. The oldest of seven children, […]

Gertrude (“Trudy”) Belle Elion’s greatest legacy is the thousands of lives touched by the breakthrough drugs she and her associates developed for the treatment of leukemia, rejection of transplanted organs, gout, and herpes, among other disorders. Elion shared the 1988 Nobel prize for Physiology or Medicine in recognition of her ground-breaking work. Gertrude Elion was

Lillian Wald was a pioneer in the field of public health nursing, choosing to focus on helping Eastern European Jewish immigrants who were crowded into New York’s Lower East Side. Known as the “Angel of Henry Street,” she dedicated her life to creating a more just society, to ensure that women and immigrants, people in

Sheryl Sandberg is the chief operating officer of Facebook and founder of the Lean In and Option B Foundations. She is co-author of best-selling books Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead and Option B: Facing Adversity, Building Resilience, and Finding Joy. Sheryl Kara Sandberg was born in 1969 in Washington D.C., the daughter of Adele Einhorn,

Gloria Steinem is a ground-breaking pioneer for women’s rights. She worked as a journalist, writer and activist in the 1960’s and 70’s and was a prominent leader of the second-wave feminist movement (first-wave feminism was the suffragette movement). Steinem cofounded Ms. Magazine, a publication dedicated to women’s rights and concerns and continues today to work

Glückl of Hameln (also spelled Gluckel, Glueckel, or Glikl of Hamelin; also known as Glikl bas Judah Leib) (1646 – September 19, 1724) was an extraordinary Jewish businesswoman and diarist, whose account of life provides scholars with an intimate picture of German Jewish communal life in the late-17th-early 18th century. Glückl was born in Hamburg in 1645