Dickey Chapelle was the first female American war correspondent to parachute with American troops and the first killed covering combat.

Women’s suffrage leader Carrie Chapman Catt was very important in getting the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution passed.

Gene Cohen Boyer was an activist for women’s rights, a successful businesswoman, and a founding member of multiple feminist organizations.

Mildred Barber was one of the first three women elected to the Wisconsin Legislature.

Ellen Ainsworth, a nurse in the US Army Nurse Corps, was the only woman from Wisconsin to die from enemy fire in World War II.