March 2021 Crossword: Trailblazing Women & Feminist Icons
To complete the crossword at home, simply click on the crossword box, print it out, and fill in the boxes using the clues below!
Across
2) Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
4) Woman who asserted “Camp sees everything in quotation marks”
6) Teen who campaigned for girls’ education
10) Woman who described herself as a “Black, lesbian, feminist, mother, warrior, poet”
12) N.A.S.A. mathematician whose calculations put the first American in space
14) Renowned chemist and first woman to win a Nobel Prize
15) Politician who declared, “Women’s rights are human rights” in her U.N. speech
16) “Bad feminist” of the modern era
18) First female Secretary of State
19) Tennis player who defeated Bobby Riggs in the “Battle of the Sexes”
20) Activist, educator, and author of Women, Race, and Class
Down
1) Sole female director of Hollywood’s Golden Age
3) Woman whose bestselling book helped kick off the women’s liberation movement
5) 1970s Congresswoman known for her liberal policies and over-the-top hats
7) Cofounder of “Ms.” Magazine and the National Women’s Political Caucus
8) Philosopher and author of The Second Sex
9) English mathematician considered to be the world’s first computer programmer
11) “Notorious” late Supreme Court Justice
13) First Black woman to run for President and hold a seat in Congress
17) Legendary broadcast journalist known for her high-profile interviews
Answer Key:
Across
2) Mary Wollstonecraft
4) Susan Sontag
6) Malala Yousafzai
10) Audre Lorde
12) Katherine Johnson
14) Marie Curie
15) Hillary Clinton
16) Roxane Gay
18) Madeleine Albright
19) Billie Jean King
20) Angela Davis
Down
1) Dorothy Arzner
3) Betty Friedan
5) Bella Abzug
7) Gloria Steinem
8) Simone de Beauvoir
9) Ada Lovelace
11) Ruth Bader Ginsburg
13) Shirley Chisholm
17) Barbara Walters
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