These acts opened the door for many "firsts": 1951-Lillian Vernon became the first woman to found a company publicly traded on a stock exchange. 1974- Judith Livers became the first woman known to have been a paid firefighter in Arlington, VA - Barbara Allen Rainey became the first woman pilot in the US Military. 1976- Alexa Irene Canady became the first woman and first African American to become a neurosurgeon... - Barbara Walters became the first female co-host on a national evening news show (with Harry Reasoner) 1990- Darlene Iskra became the first woman to comman...

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Now Science Fiction has five major themes which unites them under the one genre. ... Other notable examples since Fay Wray have been Barbara Steele, who mainly performed in Italian horror movies and Linnea Quigley, who's most famous performance was in the Return of The Living Dead (1985). ... As it can be seen, the representation of women in science fiction films has changed dramatically from them being the cliché victim' who gets captured in the hope of creating a character arc to the hero; to women coming to the forefront and taking dominant roles in major Hollywood cine...

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According to Barbara Epstein, in Industrialization and Femininity: A Case Study of Nineteenth-Century New England, women were told that they had special abilities for raising children due to their innate warmth and morality. ... This was a major loss for women. ...

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