President Bill Clinton and Secretary of State Madeleine Albright talk together in the White House's Oval Office, Washington DC, September 8, 1997.
Washington, D. C.: First Woman Director Of The U. S. Mint. Mrs. Nellie Tayloe Ross, former Governor of Wyoming, seated at her desk in the U. S....
Washington, DC-: Mrs. Charlotta A. Bass, Progressive Party candidate for Vice President, is shown as she told a news conference today that the US...
LaDonna Harris of the Oklahoma Comanche tribe who, as president of Americans for Indian Opportunity, advocates social welfare programmes, civil...
Attorney General Janet Reno testifies before the house panel investigating the 1993 standoff between federal agents and members of the Branch...
American politician, US Representative Jeanette Rankin stands at the podium and speaks before Congress, Washington DC, May 1917. The first female...
New York, Close-ups of Mrs Constance Baker Motley, former Manhattan Borough president, who was recently named by President Johnson to fill a vacancy...
Black and white print illustrating Victoria Woodhull, the first woman candidate for President, with her arm raised, after breaking into a polling...
Representative Patsy Takemoto Mink puts homemade nameplate on the door of her new office here January 1st. The only female to be elected to the 89th...
View of American jurist Ruth Bader Ginsburg during her testimony before the US Senate Judiciary Committee during a confirmation hearing over her...
National Chairman Jean Westwood opening the afternoon session at a Democratic National Committee meeting to fill the tickets left vacant by the...
Chinese political figure Ching-ling Soong , better known as Madame Sun Yat-sen, holds a piece of paper in her hands as she addresses the people of...
Washington, D.C.- Photo shows Mrs. Rebecca L. Felton, America's first and only woman Senator who came from Georgia to attend the unveiling of the...
Nominee for State Senate. New York, New York: Democrates in an upper Manhattan district chose, January 23rd, 42-year-old Mrs. Constance Baker Motley...
Portrait of American President Franklin D. Roosevelt and his cabinet, 1933. Pictured are, seated from left, Secretary of War George H. Dern ,...
Musician and actor Harry Belafonte, Freedom Rider Diane Nash and Freedom Rider Charles Jones discussing the Freedom Riders movement, July 14, 1961.
View of members of the National League of Women Voters, seated around a table, holding signs that read 'VOTE', September 1924.
Surrounded by mostly women, many with 'Votes for Women' sashes, American politician Governor of Kentucky Edwin P. Morrow signs his states...
Group of the prominent speakers who attended the Women's Centennial Congress at the Hotel Commodore are shown left to right, from the front row as;...
Pauli Murray of New York, the winner of a 1946 Mademoiselle Merit Award for signal achievement in law is shown here. A graduate of Howard University...
Birth control advocate Margaret Sanger has her mouth covered in protest of not being allowed to talk about birth control in Boston.
American politician US Representative Barbara Boxer speaks during a press conference , Washington DC, October 22, 1990. Standing behind her are...
Congresswoman Jeannette Rankin is presented with the flag that flew at the House of Representatives during the passage of the suffrage amendment.
Among the prominent women who attended the meeting of the National Women's Party in Washington was Mrs. Gertrude Bonnin, nee Princess Zitkala-Sa of...
Miami Beach, Florida; Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm, after losing her bid for Democratic presidential nomination, endorses Senator George McGovern...
New Delhi, India- ORIGINAL CAPTION READS: Prime Minister Indira Gandhi has assumed virtually absolute power in India 6/27/1975 by jailing hundreds of...
Radical political activist Angela Davis speaks at a street rally in Raleigh, North Carolina, 4th July 1974.
Representative Nancy Pelosi, D-California, speaks during a news conference after the House of Representatives voted to overrride the presidential...
Washington: Professor Anita Hill is sworn-in before testifying at the Senate Judiciary hearing on the Clarence Thomas Supreme Court nomination. Hill...
New Mexico Secretary of State Soledad C Chacon, the first elected woman to hold statewide office, visits Miami while holding down the governor's...
Five female delegates at the United Nations General Assembly at Flushing, New York, September 1949. From Left to right, Ulla Lindström from Sweden,...
Prime Minister Jenny Shipley and Energy minister Max Bradford at a press conference today, Friday, over the continuation of Auckland's power crisis.
Attorney General Loretta Lynch is sworn in during a formal investiture ceremony as U.S. President Barack Obama looks on at the Warner Theatre June...
Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi with Sirimavo Bandaranaike, the Prime Minister of Sri Lanka, during a three-day visit to Sri Lanka, May 1973.
Lawyer and politician serving as the Managing Director and Chairman of the International Monetary Fund, Christine Lagarde is photographed for Paris...
Wilma Mankiller, principal chief of the Cherokee Nation, poses beside a lake. Mankiller was the first female principal chief in the history of the...
Sandra Day O'Connor is sworn in before the Senate Judiciary committee during confirmation hearings as she seeks to become first woman to take a seat...
Isabel Martinez de Peron, wife of President Juan Peron of Argentina, speaking at a press conference in Geneva, June 24th 1974.
Republican presidential candidate, former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley is joined by New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu as they visit a polling location...
Eleanor Roosevelt American author, lecturer, ambassador, social activist and wife of the 32nd President Franklin D Roosevelt. A representative to the...
From left to right, US politician Margaret Chase Smith with UK politicians Winston Churchill and Anthony Eden , circa 1952.
Sirimavo Bandaranaike , the widow of S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike , the Prime Minister of Ceylon , circa 1960. She was elected Prime Minister herself on...
Jawaharlal Nehru and his sister Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit attend the Flag Salutation ceremony at the Azad Maidan in Bombay before the All India Congress...
Republican U.S vice-presidential nominee Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin holds her son Trig Palin as Track Palin, Bristol Palin and Willow Palin look on...
Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor is flanked by Associate Justice Antonin Scalia and Associate Justice Clarence Thomas while taking a group...
American feminist, journalist, and activist Gloria Steinem sits at her desk during a staff meeting for MS Magazine, New York City, 1975.
Former Prime Minister of Pakistan, Benazir Bhutto campaigning for the Pakistan Peoples Party in the week before the Pakistani General Election,...
TDs attending the meeting to ratify the Anglo-Irish Treaty that established the Irish Free State, , Circa 1922 L-R: unknown, Constance Markiewicz,...
Ex-Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher leaves former Finchley constituence while campaigning for John Major's 1992 election. Two years after her...
Prime Minister of Turkey Tansu Ciller in the East Room of the White House during official state visit. Washington, DC. October 15, 1993
British Labour Party politician, Barbara Castle, Baroness Castle of Blackburn at the Labour Party Conference, 1967.
