Title IX: The Journey Continues

The L2T team wants to share with you the stories of women and men who strive to achieve the intended goal of Title IX – creating opportunity so that individuals, regardless of gender, can reach their full potential. Many have become leaders in their communities, organizations, and, in some cases, countries. These are their leaders.

Eileen Collins

Eileen Collins

First American woman to pilot a spacecraft.

Rosalyn Yalow

Rosalyn Yalow

First American woman to win the Nobel Prize for medecine and first woman to win the Lasker Award

Sally Ride

Sally Ride

First American woman in space

Antonia Novello

Antonia Novello

The first woman and first Hispanic to become Surgeon General of the United States

Shannon Lucid

Shannon Lucid

Member of the first astronaut class to admit women