20 Women Who Made History By Bending Gender Roles

4. Jeannette Pickering Rankin

#NAME 20 Women Who Made History By Bending Gender Roles

Jeannette Pickering Rankin was elected as the first female member of Congress even before women across America could vote (women could already vote in about 40 states). A Representative elected both in 1916 and 1940, Rankin noticed she was “the only woman who ever voted to give women the right to vote.” Now that’s a way to defy gender roles!