8 Little-Known Women's History Month Facts

Lydia Taft became the first woman to vote in colonial America, 164 years before the Nineteenth Amendment was passed.

Women weren’t legally guaranteed equal educational opportunities until 1972. Today, more women earn college degrees than men.

Marie Curie is the only person who has ever received two Nobel Prizes in two different science categories.

Wyoming refused to join the United States without a guarantee that women would be allowed to vote.

Seventeen-year-old pitcher Jackie Mitchell made baseball history when she struck out Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig.

The British suffragettes learned jiu jitsu to defend themselves and evade arrest.

The famous feminist “bra burning” incident never actually happened.