Simone de Beauvoir and earned another diploma after

and earned another diploma after four years of home study

“I felt like Sojourner Truth was pushing down on one shoulder and Harriet Tubman was pushing down on the other—saying

One of the first female African American doctors

breaking the glass ceiling for female educators by becoming the first woman to lead a major urban district

– Shawn D

Simone de Beauvoir and earned another diploma afterSimone de Beauvoir An outspoken political activist, writer and social theorist, in 1949 de Beauvoir wrote The Second Sex, an ahead of its time book credited with paving the way for modern feminism. In the influential (and at the time, extremely controversial) book, de Beauvoir critiques the patriarchy and social constructs faced by women. The Second Sex was banned by The Vatican and even deemed "pornography" by somea fearless start to the fight for