> The big list of women who did things

Unfinished, obviously. And still rewriting for Micron from the original at https://mayvaneday.org/women.md

Last updated: 2024-01-01

>> Art
\- `F908`_`[Aphra Behn`https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aphra_Behn`]`_`f: one of the first English women to earn her living by writing
\- Tina Bell: pioneer of the "grunge" music genre, before Nirvana
\- Diemoth: 12th-century recluse who transcribed at least forty-five manuscripts; notable for her "beautiful handwriting"
\- Enheduanna: first known poet
\- Marie de France: earliest known French woman poet
\- Herrad of Landsberg: 12th-century nun who wrote an early pictoral encyclopedia, `*Hortus deliciarum`*, to teach the women in her convent about the sciences of the time
\- Hrotsvitha: first female writer (from German-speaking lands) and first female historian
\- Baya Mahieddine: surrealist artist whose work was imitated by Picasso
\- Edna St. Vincent Millay: first woman (and second person!) to win the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
\- Lucy Terry Prince: author of `*Bars Fight`*, the oldest known work of literature by an African American
\- Lotte Reiniger: director/writer of the oldest surviving animated feature film, `*The Adventures of Prince Achmed`*
\- Mary Shelley: novelist and pioneer of the science fiction genre of books
\- Murasaki Shikibu: wrote the first novel, `*The Tale of Genji`*
\- Pamela Colman Smith: illustrator of the iconic Rider-Waite tarot deck
\- Valerie Thomas: invented the illusion transmitter, critical for the invention of 3D movies
\- Maud Wagner: first female tattoo artist in the USA

`F908`_`[More information`https://www.girlmuseum.org/project/girl-authors/`]`_`f

>> Computers

\- Ada Lovelace: the first computer programmer
\- Kathleen Booth: inventor of assembly language
\- Evelyn Berezin: designed the first computer word processor
\- Edith Clarke: first woman to earn a degree in electrical engineering
\- Marian Croak: invented VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol)
\- Judith Estrin: instrumental in the invention of TCP
\- Margaret Hamilton: lead programmer on the Apollo project
\- Grace Hopper: created the first compiler for a programing language
\- Susan Kare: "pioneer of pixel art"; designed many of the icons, fonts, and images for Apple, NeXT, and IBM in the 1980s
\- Hedy Lamarr: invented Wi-Fi
\- Ruth Teitelbaum: one of the six women who programmed ENIAC
\- Gladys West: mathematician who developed the satellite geodesy models eventually developed into the Global Positioning System (GPS)

`F908`_`[More information`https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_in_computing?lang=en`]`_`f