Name that female world changer! There was an error. Please try again. 10 Total Questions Test Complete This test has ended. Question 1/10 Delivered the famous speech "Ain't I a Woman?" at the Women's Rights Convention in 1851. Correct! Incorrect Question 1/10 Delivered the famous speech "Ain't I a Woman?" at the Women's Rights Convention in 1851. Your Answer
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Sojourner Truth Your Answer
Amelia Earhart Your Answer
Margaret Sanger Your Answer
Elizabeth Cady Stanton Your Answer Question 2/10 Opened the first birth control clinic in the US, which gave way to current day Planned Parenthood. Correct! Incorrect Question 2/10 Opened the first birth control clinic in the US, which gave way to current day Planned Parenthood. Your Answer
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Elizabeth Peratrovich Your Answer
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Margaret Sanger Your Answer Question 3/10 Active member in the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention, petitioned for women's right to vote. Correct! Incorrect Question 3/10 Active member in the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention, petitioned for women's right to vote. Your Answer
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Elizabeth Blackwell Your Answer
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Ida B. Wells Your Answer Question 4/10 Refused to give her seat up to a white man on the bus and sparked the civil rights movement. Correct! Incorrect Question 4/10 Refused to give her seat up to a white man on the bus and sparked the civil rights movement. Your Answer
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Rosa Parks Your Answer
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Abigail Adams Your Answer Question 5/10 Became the first woman to graduate from medical school and become a doctor in the US. Correct! Incorrect Question 5/10 Became the first woman to graduate from medical school and become a doctor in the US. Your Answer
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Jane Austen Your Answer
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Ruth Bader Ginsberg Your Answer Question 6/10 First woman elected to Congress as a member of the House of Representatives. Correct! Incorrect Question 6/10 First woman elected to Congress as a member of the House of Representatives. Your Answer
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Kamala Harris Your Answer Question 7/10 Discovered the first double helix structure of DNA. Her work was later published under the names of two male scientists. Correct! Incorrect Question 7/10 Discovered the first double helix structure of DNA. Her work was later published under the names of two male scientists. Your Answer
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Mary Shelley Your Answer Question 8/10 First woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize in 1903, and the first person to EVER win it twice in 1911. Correct! Incorrect Question 8/10 First woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize in 1903, and the first person to EVER win it twice in 1911. Your Answer
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Marie Curie Your Answer Question 9/10 Became the first full-time female NFL official in the NFL in 2015, and the first woman to ever officiate in a Super Bowl. Correct! Incorrect Question 9/10 Became the first full-time female NFL official in the NFL in 2015, and the first woman to ever officiate in a Super Bowl. Your Answer
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Rachel Balkovec Your Answer Question 10/10 One of the first actresses to embrace menswear and break gender norms in the clothing industry. Correct! Incorrect Question 10/10 One of the first actresses to embrace menswear and break gender norms in the clothing industry. Your Answer
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“We just want people in the school to know that they have a place to know that they are important in this school because men think they are everything. You are important. If something happens to you, we’re there to talk to you about it. We are half the society and half the school,” said senior club president Emily Clements.
With the consistent pressures that are placed on young women, having a community dedicated specifically to female encouragement is an amazing way for high schoolers to find a support system.
“I love women’s empowerment because we focus on building each other up as women, especially as young women with all the challenges that they go through with seeing stuff on social media and just trying to make it through high school with all the comparisons out there and watching how women are treated,” english teacher Mrs. Thompson said.
However, the club is open to members of all genders. Men are accepted and encouraged to participate.
Kenneth McAninch, one of the few boys who are active members of the women’s empowerment club, did not intentionally join the club as a freshman but is now very dedicated to the cause.
“I was in Schlicht’s advisory and I didn’t really want to go to the gym, so I stuck around for women’s empowerment because it’s a very nice community,” McAninch said. “I feel like more guys should be in it. Men should empower women. I think it should go both ways.”
Senior Molly Lafferty, a member of women’s empowerment, believes that the club transcends just its name.
“It’s not just about women. It’s about equality and making a safe space for people to be able to have opinions or like, just have friends. And so I think people should join it just to show their support for the women in their life or if they’re a woman, to find community,” Lafferty said.
Along with hosting biweekly meetings, putting up posters, and spreading the word about gender equality, women’s empowerment has paired with the student council to run a drive that gathers donations for the Sheffield Place, a local women’s shelter.
“We are going to go volunteer at the Sheffield place and they said donations are greatly appreciated, so we thought, what better way to get donations than to ask the students of South? So we’re going to drop that off and it’s really gonna help the women and children in need of things that they can’t access right now,” senior Gabriella Grantham said.
Senior Ellie Hyatt acknowledges the impact that the drive is making on the larger community.
“It’s hard to run a women’s shelter when you don’t have the things to run a women’s shelter, so I think that raising those things, especially with how many students we have, hopefully bringing in some good stuff for them, can really help them,” Hyatt said.
Together, the student council and the women’s empowerment club raised over 400 materials to donate to the women’s shelter.
The difference made by women’s empowerment is felt by many, and their hard work does not ever go unnoticed or unappreciated.
“They’re empowering [women] to step forward and create all these different dynamics around their culture that will really just support and get people to treat them better. It feels like not only the right thing to do, but also it’s something that needs to happen, especially in this society,” junior Chiron Crabb said.
