Women in History: Match the Pairs

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Explore the remarkable contributions of women throughout history in this engaging two-column matching game. On the left you’ll see a list of names of influential women, and on the right a list of their achievements, roles or events. Your mission: match each name to its correct achievement.

This activity is perfect for classrooms, workshops or group play, and helps you:

- Recognize and remember key women who shaped politics, science, culture and society.
- Understand the connection between the person and their legacy.
- Foster discussion about how women’s roles in history have changed and been under-represented.

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Women's Educational Network

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Matching Pairs Women in History: Match the PairsOnline version Explore the remarkable contributions of women throughout history in this engaging two-column matching game. On the left you’ll see a list of names of influential women, and on the right a list of their achievements, roles or events. Your mission: match each name to its correct achievement. This activity is perfect for classrooms, workshops or group play, and helps you: - Recognize and remember key women who shaped politics, science, culture and society. - Understand the connection between the person and their legacy. - Foster discussion about how women’s roles in history have changed and been under-represented. by Women's Educational Network 1 Katherine Johnson 2 Frida Kahlo 3 Betty Friedan 4 Indira Gandhi 5 Millicent Garrett Fawcett 6 Maya Angelou 7 Amelia Earhart 8 Malala Yousafzai 9 Rosa Parks 10 Marie Curie She was the American writer and civil-rights activist who contributed influential works on race & gender, and wrote “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.” She was a U.S. civil-rights activist who became famous for refusing to give up her bus seat. She was an English political activist and writer who led Britain’s largest women’s suffrage association in the early 20th century. She was the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. She was the first prime minister (and one of the most prominent political leaders) of India, serving from 1966 until her assassination in 1984. She was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize (and later the only person to win it twice in two different sciences). She was a Mexican painter whose work explored identity, pain, and culture and remains iconic worldwide. She is the young Pakistani activist who became the world’s youngest Nobel Peace Prize laureate, advocating for girls’ education. She worked at NASA and helped send humans into space as a pioneering African-American mathematician and scientist. She was an American feminist writer whose 1963 book “The Feminine Mystique” sparked the second wave of feminism.

Matching Pairs

Women in History: Match the PairsOnline version

Explore the remarkable contributions of women throughout history in this engaging two-column matching game. On the left you’ll see a list of names of influential women, and on the right a list of their achievements, roles or events. Your mission: match each name to its correct achievement. This activity is perfect for classrooms, workshops or group play, and helps you: - Recognize and remember key women who shaped politics, science, culture and society. - Understand the connection between the person and their legacy. - Foster discussion about how women’s roles in history have changed and been under-represented.

by Women's Educational Network

Katherine Johnson

Frida Kahlo

Betty Friedan

Indira Gandhi

Millicent Garrett Fawcett

Maya Angelou

Amelia Earhart

Malala Yousafzai

Rosa Parks

Marie Curie

She was the American writer and civil-rights activist who contributed influential works on race & gender, and wrote “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.”

She was a U.S. civil-rights activist who became famous for refusing to give up her bus seat.

She was an English political activist and writer who led Britain’s largest women’s suffrage association in the early 20th century.

She was the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean.

She was the first prime minister (and one of the most prominent political leaders) of India, serving from 1966 until her assassination in 1984.

She was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize (and later the only person to win it twice in two different sciences).

She was a Mexican painter whose work explored identity, pain, and culture and remains iconic worldwide.

She is the young Pakistani activist who became the world’s youngest Nobel Peace Prize laureate, advocating for girls’ education.

She worked at NASA and helped send humans into space as a pioneering African-American mathematician and scientist.

She was an American feminist writer whose 1963 book “The Feminine Mystique” sparked the second wave of feminism.

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Women in History: Match the PairsOnline version

by Women's Educational Network

Katherine Johnson

Frida Kahlo

Betty Friedan

Indira Gandhi

Millicent Garrett Fawcett

Maya Angelou

Amelia Earhart

Malala Yousafzai

Rosa Parks

Marie Curie

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