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Cathy Lanier – Law Enforcement
Cathy Lanier is the Washing DC Chief of Police, and is the first woman to ever hold this position in the history of the US nation’s capital. She has an 80% approval rating and has drastically dropped the homicide rate to its lowest ever in 45 years. Female police chiefs only make up 1% of the total in the US.
Frances Allen – Computer Programmer
In 2006, IBM computer scientist Frances Allen was the first woman to ever win the Turing Award for her amazing work in optimizing compilers. This award is considered the Nobel Prize for computer science. SHe is also responsible for helping design National Security Agency code language that was elemental during the Cold War.
