Biography

Amartya Sen

Amartya Kumar Sen CH (Hon) (born 3 November 1933), is a Bengali Indian economist, philosopher, and a winner of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1998, “for his contributions to welfare economics” for his work on famine, human development theory, welfare economics, the underlying mechanisms of poverty, and political liberalism. Table of Contents […]

Albert Cashier

Albert D. J Cashier lived from December 25, 1843 to October 10, 1915. Cashier was a , born Jennie Irene Hodgers in Ireland.Spalding, Peg. “Union Maid”. http://history.alliancelibrarysystem.com/IllinoisAlive/files/iv/htm2/ivtxt018.cfm. Retrieved 2007-12-13. Table of Contents 1 Early Life 2 Army 3 Post-Army 4 Death 5 References 6 See Also Early Life Cashier was born in Clogherhead, County Louth, […]

Violeta Chamorro

Violeta Barrios Torres de Chamorro (born October 18, 1929) is a political leader, former president and publisher. Chamorro was the first, and to date only, woman to hold that position in Nicaragua, and furthermore was the first elected female head of government in Latin America and the second North American woman president, (following only Ertha […]

Virginia Woolf

Adeline Virginia Woolf (née Stephen; 25 January 1882 – 28 March 1941) was an English novelist and essayist, regarded as one of the foremost modernist literary figures of the twentieth century. She wrote often on the inequalities and discrimination women face, most famously in the essay A Room of One’s Own (1929) and in Orlando […]

Vera Rubin

Vera Rubin (1928- ) is an astronomer who has done pioneering work on galaxy rotation rates. Her contribution to astronomy  was the discovery of the discrepancy between the predicted angular motion of galaxies and the observed motion, by studying galactic rotation curves. Rubin is currently a research astronomer at the Carnegie Institution of Washington. She […]

Türkan Saylan

Türkan Saylan (December 13, 1935 – May 18, 2009) was a champion of women’s rights and education for poor children in Turkey and a leader in the fight against leprosy. Table of Contents 1 Work on Leprosy 2 Champion of Women and Children’s Rights 3 Politics 4 Famous Quote 5 References Work on Leprosy Saylan was […]

Toni Morrison

Toni Morrison (b. February 18, 1931), is an American author, editor, and professor. Her best known novels are The Bluest Eye, Song of Solomon, and Beloved, which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1988. In 1993, Toni Morrison became the first black woman to win the . Table of Contents 1 Early Life and […]

Tarja Halonen

Tarja Halonen was born on 24 December 1943 in Helsinki, . She was the President of Finland from 2000-2012, the first woman to be elected to this office. Table of Contents 1 Education and Early Career 2 1987 – 2000 3 Presidential Campaign (2000) and Presidency (2000- ) 4 Sources Education and Early Career Halonen […]

Tansu Çiller

Tansu Penbe Çiller (born October 9, 1946) is an economist and politician in . Between 1993 and 1996, she served as Turkey’s first female Prime Minister, and was the third female head of state in a predominantly Muslim country. Table of Contents 1 Early Life and Education 2 Political Career 2.1 Europe 3 Reputation 4 […]

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