[Top 80] Women’s rights quiz questions and answers: we are going to discuss women’s rights.
1. When did the United Nations adopt the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which includes the principle of gender equality?
a) 1945
b) 1965
c) 1975
d) 1985
Answer: a) 1945
2. Which of the following is considered a landmark achievement for women’s rights in the United States?
a) The Equal Rights Amendment (ERA)
b) The Civil Rights Act of 1964
c) The Voting Rights Act of 1965
d) The Declaration of Independence
Answer: a) The Equal Rights Amendment (ERA)
3. When did the suffrage movement in the United States achieve a major victory with the ratification of the 19th Amendment, granting women the right to vote?
a) 1919
b) 1920
c) 1930
d) 1940
Answer: b) 1920
4. Who is often credited as one of the pioneers of the modern feminist movement and author of the book “The Feminine Mystique”?
a) Gloria Steinem
b) Betty Friedan
c) Susan B. Anthony
d) Rosa Parks
Answer: b) Betty Friedan
5. Which international convention adopted in 1979 outlines the rights of women and defines discrimination against women?
a) Universal Declaration of Human Rights
b) Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW)
c) International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
d) Convention on the Rights of the Child
Answer: b) Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW)
6. Who was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize, awarded in 1903, for her groundbreaking research on radioactivity?
a) Marie Curie
b) Rosa Parks
c) Amelia Earhart
d) Jane Austen
Answer: a) Marie Curie
7. Which women’s rights activist is best known for her role in organizing the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848, which marked the beginning of the women’s suffrage movement in the United States?
a) Susan B. Anthony
b) Elizabeth Cady Stanton
c) Sojourner Truth
d) Harriet Tubman
Answer: b) Elizabeth Cady Stanton
8. In what year did the United States pass the Title IX legislation, which prohibits sex-based discrimination in educational institutions?
a) 1959
b) 1969
c) 1972
d) 1982
Answer: c) 1972
9. Who became the first female prime minister of a Muslim-majority country when she was elected as the Prime Minister of Pakistan in 1988?
a) Golda Meir
b) Margaret Thatcher
c) Benazir Bhutto
d) Indira Gandhi
Answer: c) Benazir Bhutto
10. Which women’s suffrage leader famously said, “Well-behaved women seldom make history”?
a) Susan B. Anthony
b) Rosa Parks
c) Elizabeth Cady Stanton
d) Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
Answer: d) Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
11. Who is known as the “Mother of Feminism” and wrote the book “The Second Sex,” which is considered a foundational text in feminist philosophy?
a) Simone de Beauvoir
b) Gloria Steinem
c) Audre Lorde
d) bell hooks
Answer: a) Simone de Beauvoir
12. Which women’s suffrage leader played a key role in the movement’s success in the United Kingdom and is often associated with the slogan “Deeds, not words”?
a) Emmeline Pankhurst
b) Mary Wollstonecraft
c) Susan B. Anthony
d) Alice Paul
Answer: a) Emmeline Pankhurst
13. When did the United Nations establish International Women’s Day, a global celebration of the social, economic, cultural, and political achievements of women?
a) 1945
b) 1975
c) 1995
d) 2005
Answer: b) 1975
14. Who became the first female astronaut to travel into space in 1963?
a) Valentina Tereshkova
b) Sally Ride
c) Mae Jemison
d) Eileen Collins
Answer: a) Valentina Tereshkova
15. Which women’s rights activist co-founded the National Women’s Political Caucus and was the first African American woman elected to the U.S. Congress?
a) Shirley Chisholm
b) Angela Davis
c) Rosa Parks
d) Fannie Lou Hamer
Answer: a) Shirley Chisholm
16. Who is the youngest-ever Nobel Prize laureate and advocate for girls’ education, particularly in Pakistan and other developing countries?
a) Malala Yousafzai
b) Michelle Obama
c) Emma Watson
d) Oprah Winfrey
Answer: a) Malala Yousafzai
17. Which international women’s rights treaty, adopted in 1979, aims to eliminate discrimination against women in all areas of life?
a) Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action
b) Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW)
c) International Women’s Rights Agreement (IWRA)
d) Women’s Equality Treaty (WET)
Answer: b) Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW)
18. Who is the first woman to serve as the Chancellor of Germany and one of the world’s most influential political leaders?
a) Angela Merkel
b) Theresa May
c) Jacinda Ardern
d) Christine Lagarde
Answer: a) Angela Merkel
19. Which women’s rights activist and writer co-founded Ms. magazine and played a significant role in the feminist movement during the 1960s and 1970s?
a) Betty Friedan
b) Gloria Steinem
c) Audre Lorde
d) Susan B. Anthony
Answer: b) Gloria Steinem
20. In what year did the United States Supreme Court legalize same-sex marriage nationwide, recognizing it as a fundamental right for all couples?
a) 2008
b) 2010
c) 2013
d) 2015
Answer: d) 2015
21. Who is the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, awarded in 1909?
a) Jane Austen
b) Virginia Woolf
c) Doris Lessing
d) Selma Lagerlöf
Answer: d) Selma Lagerlöf
22. Which women’s rights activist co-founded the National Organization for Women (NOW) and played a key role in the women’s liberation movement in the United States?
a) Bella Abzug
b) Alice Walker
c) Kate Millett
d) Betty Friedan
Answer: d) Betty Friedan
23. When did the United States pass the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, aimed at addressing pay discrimination based on gender?
a) 1995
b) 2000
c) 2009
d) 2014
Answer: c) 2009
24. Who is the first woman of color to serve as Vice President of the United States?
a) Kamala Harris
b) Condoleezza Rice
c) Michelle Obama
d) Stacey Abrams
Answer: a) Kamala Harris
25. Which women’s rights activist and suffragette famously said, “I’d rather go down in history as one lone Negro who dared to tell the government that it had done a dastardly thing than to save my skin by taking back what I said”?
a) Sojourner Truth
b) Rosa Parks
c) Fannie Lou Hamer
d) Ida B. Wells
Answer: c) Fannie Lou Hamer
26. Who was the first woman to be appointed to the United States Supreme Court?
a) Ruth Bader Ginsburg
b) Sandra Day O’Connor
c) Sonia Sotomayor
d) Elena Kagan
Answer: b) Sandra Day O’Connor
27. Which women’s rights activist is known for her leadership in the women’s suffrage movement in the United States and co-founded the National Woman’s Party?
a) Susan B. Anthony
b) Elizabeth Cady Stanton
c) Alice Paul
d) Lucy Stone
Answer: c) Alice Paul
28. In what year did the United States pass the Equal Pay Act, prohibiting gender-based wage discrimination?
a) 1963
b) 1970
c) 1980
d) 1990
Answer: a) 1963
29. Who is the youngest woman to ever be elected to the United States Congress?
a) Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
b) Ilhan Omar
c) Rashida Tlaib
d) Ayanna Pressley
Answer: a) Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
30. Which women’s rights activist and author is credited with writing the influential feminist book “The Feminine Mystique” in 1963?
a) Betty Friedan
b) Gloria Steinem
c) Audre Lorde
d) Simone de Beauvoir
Answer: a) Betty Friedan
31. Who was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize in Chemistry, awarded in 1964?
a) Marie Curie
b) Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin
c) Rosalind Franklin
d) Ada Yonath
Answer: b) Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin
32. Which women’s rights activist and social reformer is known for her work in the women’s suffrage movement in the United States and for co-writing the “Declaration of Sentiments” in 1848?
a) Susan B. Anthony
b) Lucretia Mott
c) Lucy Stone
d) Elizabeth Blackwell
Answer: b) Lucretia Mott
33. When was the first International Women’s Conference held, which later led to the establishment of International Women’s Day?
a) 1890
b) 1900
c) 1910
d) 1920
Answer: c) 1910
34. Who is the first woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize, awarded in 1905, for her humanitarian work and efforts to promote peace?
a) Mother Teresa
b) Aung San Suu Kyi
c) Malala Yousafzai
d) Bertha von Suttner
Answer: d) Bertha von Suttner
35. Which women’s rights activist played a significant role in the civil rights movement in the United States and is best known for refusing to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama in 1955?
a) Coretta Scott King
b) Angela Davis
c) Rosa Parks
d) Harriet Tubman
Answer: c) Rosa Parks
36. Who is the first woman to serve as the Secretary of State of the United States?
a) Madeleine Albright
b) Condoleezza Rice
c) Hillary Clinton
d) Kamala Harris
Answer: a) Madeleine Albright
37. Which women’s rights activist and author is known for her work on intersectionality and the concept of “sisterhood” in feminism?
a) Audre Lorde
b) bell hooks
c) Gloria Steinem
d) Angela Davis
Answer: b) bell hooks
38. In what year did the United States pass the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA), which aimed to protect and support survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault?
a) 1984
b) 1990
c) 1994
d) 2000
Answer: c) 1994
39. Who is the first woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest, the highest peak in the world?
a) Junko Tabei
b) Reinhold Messner
c) Tenzing Norgay
d) Arlene Blum
Answer: a) Junko Tabei
40. Which women’s rights activist and suffragette is known for her hunger strike and force-feeding while imprisoned, and is a symbol of the suffrage movement in the United Kingdom?
a) Emmeline Pankhurst
b) Emily Davison
c) Millicent Fawcett
d) Mary Wollstonecraft
Answer: b) Emily Davison
41. Who is the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Physics, awarded in 2020?
a) Donna Strickland
b) Marie Curie
c) Jocelyn Bell Burnell
d) Andrea Ghez
Answer: d) Andrea Ghez
42. Which women’s rights activist co-founded the Women’s March, a global movement advocating for women’s rights and social justice?
a) Tarana Burke
b) Emma Watson
c) Alicia Garza
d) Linda Sarsour
Answer: d) Linda Sarsour
43. When was the United Nations Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women adopted, recognizing violence against women as a human rights violation?
a) 1945
b) 1975
c) 1993
d) 2000
Answer: c) 1993
44. Who is the first woman to win the Fields Medal, often referred to as the “Nobel Prize of Mathematics,” awarded in 2014?
a) Maryam Mirzakhani
b) Emmy Noether
c) Sophie Germain
d) Grace Hopper
Answer: a) Maryam Mirzakhani
45. Which women’s rights activist and author is known for her influential work “The Feminine Mystique” and is considered a key figure in the second wave of feminism in the United States?
a) Betty Friedan
b) Gloria Steinem
c) Angela Davis
d) Simone de Beauvoir
Answer: a) Betty Friedan
46. Who is the first woman to become the Prime Minister of a Muslim-majority country?
a) Benazir Bhutto
b) Golda Meir
c) Indira Gandhi
d) Margaret Thatcher
Answer: a) Benazir Bhutto
47. Which women’s rights activist is credited with organizing the first Women’s Rights Convention held in Seneca Falls, New York, in 1848?
a) Susan B. Anthony
b) Elizabeth Cady Stanton
c) Sojourner Truth
d) Harriet Tubman
Answer: b) Elizabeth Cady Stanton
48. When was the United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 adopted, recognizing the role of women in peace and security and calling for their increased participation?
a) 1995
b) 2000
c) 2005
d) 2010
Answer: b) 2000
49. Who is the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences, awarded in 2009?
a) Elinor Ostrom
b) Esther Duflo
c) Donna Strickland
d) Alice Munro
Answer: b) Esther Duflo
50. Which women’s rights activist and suffragette is known for leading the hunger strike movement in the United Kingdom during the early 20th century?
a) Emmeline Pankhurst
b) Emily Wilding Davison
c) Millicent Fawcett
d) Christabel Pankhurst
Answer: a) Emmeline Pankhurst
51. Who is the first woman to serve as the President of a country in the world?
a) Golda Meir
b) Sirimavo Bandaranaike
c) Isabel Perón
d) Vigdís Finnbogadóttir
Answer: b) Sirimavo Bandaranaike (Prime Minister of Sri Lanka in 1960, 1970, and 1994; served as President in 1960, 1994-2000)
52. Which women’s rights activist founded the Malala Fund and became an international symbol for girls’ education?
a) Emma Watson
b) Michelle Obama
c) Malala Yousafzai
d) Oprah Winfrey
Answer: c) Malala Yousafzai
53. In what year was the Universal Declaration of Human Rights adopted, which proclaims the fundamental rights and freedoms of all individuals regardless of gender?
a) 1945
b) 1950
c) 1960
d) 1970
Answer: b) 1950
54. Who is the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, awarded in 1983?
a) Rosalind Franklin
b) Françoise Barré-Sinoussi
c) Barbara McClintock
d) Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard
Answer: c) Barbara McClintock
55. Which women’s rights activist and writer is credited with authoring “The Second Sex,” a seminal work on feminist theory and existentialism?
a) Betty Friedan
b) Simone de Beauvoir
c) Audre Lorde
d) Virginia Woolf
Answer: b) Simone de Beauvoir
56. Who is the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, awarded in 1909?
a) Jane Austen
b) Virginia Woolf
c) Doris Lessing
d) Selma Lagerlöf
Answer: d) Selma Lagerlöf
57. Which women’s rights activist is known for her influential book “The Feminine Mystique,” which is often credited with sparking the second wave of feminism in the United States?
a) Betty Friedan
b) Gloria Steinem
c) Audre Lorde
d) Simone de Beauvoir
Answer: a) Betty Friedan
58. When did the United States pass the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, aimed at addressing pay discrimination based on gender?
a) 1995
b) 2000
c) 2009
d) 2014
Answer: c) 2009
59. Who is the first woman of color to serve as Vice President of the United States?
a) Kamala Harris
b) Condoleezza Rice
c) Michelle Obama
d) Stacey Abrams
Answer: a) Kamala Harris
60. Which women’s rights activist and suffragette famously said, “I’d rather go down in history as one lone Negro who dared to tell the government that it had done a dastardly thing than to save my skin by taking back what I said”?
a) Sojourner Truth
b) Rosa Parks
c) Fannie Lou Hamer
d) Ida B. Wells
Answer: c) Fannie Lou Hamer
61. Who is the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Chemistry twice, awarded in 1911 and 1915?
a) Marie Curie
b) Dorothy Hodgkin
c) Irène Joliot-Curie
d) Linus Pauling
Answer: a) Marie Curie
62. Which women’s rights activist and lawyer was the first African American woman to argue a case before the United States Supreme Court?
a) Rosa Parks
b) Thurgood Marshall
c) Pauli Murray
d) Constance Baker Motley
Answer: c) Pauli Murray
63. When was the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) adopted by the United Nations General Assembly?
a) 1960
b) 1975
c) 1980
d) 1990
Answer: c) 1980
64. Who is the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine twice, awarded in 1977 and 1983?
a) Barbara McClintock
b) Rosalind Franklin
c) Rita Levi-Montalcini
d) Gertrude B. Elion
Answer: c) Rita Levi-Montalcini
65. Which women’s rights activist and suffragette is known for founding the National Women’s Party and organizing the first-ever picket of the White House for women’s suffrage?
a) Susan B. Anthony
b) Elizabeth Cady Stanton
c) Alice Paul
d) Ida B. Wells
Answer: c) Alice Paul
66. Who is the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Peace, awarded in 1905?
a) Aung San Suu Kyi
b) Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
c) Malala Yousafzai
d) Bertha von Suttner
Answer: d) Bertha von Suttner
67. Which women’s rights activist co-founded the National Organization for Women (NOW) in the United States in 1966?
a) Betty Friedan
b) Gloria Steinem
c) Audre Lorde
d) Susan B. Anthony
Answer: a) Betty Friedan
68. When was the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women held, which resulted in the adoption of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action?
a) 1985
b) 1990
c) 1995
d) 2000
Answer: c) 1995
69. Who is the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences, awarded in 2019?
a) Esther Duflo
b) Elinor Ostrom
c) Amartya Sen
d) Lin Ostrom
Answer: a) Esther Duflo
70. Which women’s rights activist and suffragette is known for her role in the women’s suffrage movement in the United Kingdom and for founding the Women’s Social and Political Union?
a) Millicent Fawcett
b) Emily Davison
c) Emmeline Pankhurst
d) Mary Wollstonecraft
Answer: c) Emmeline Pankhurst
71. Who is the first woman to serve as the Chancellor of Germany?
a) Angela Merkel
b) Theresa May
c) Jacinda Ardern
d) Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
Answer: a) Angela Merkel
72. Which women’s rights activist is known for her work in advancing reproductive rights and is the founder of Planned Parenthood?
a) Margaret Sanger
b) Gloria Steinem
c) Ruth Bader Ginsburg
d) Shirley Chisholm
Answer: a) Margaret Sanger
73. When was the United Nations adopted the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW)?
a) 1945
b) 1975
c) 1980
d) 1995
Answer: c) 1980
74. Who is the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature from Africa, awarded in 1991?
a) Nadine Gordimer
b) Toni Morrison
c) Doris Lessing
d) Wangari Maathai
Answer: b) Toni Morrison
75. Which women’s rights activist and suffragette is known for leading the suffrage movement in the United States and co-founding the National American Woman Suffrage Association?
a) Susan B. Anthony
b) Elizabeth Cady Stanton
c) Sojourner Truth
d) Harriet Tubman
Answer: a) Susan B. Anthony
76. Who is the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the discovery of the structure of DNA, awarded in 1962?
a) Rosalind Franklin
b) Marie Curie
c) Barbara McClintock
d) Dorothy Hodgkin
Answer: a) Rosalind Franklin
77. Which women’s rights activist played a crucial role in the passing of the Equal Pay Act of 1963 in the United States?
a) Eleanor Roosevelt
b) Betty Friedan
c) Lilly Ledbetter
d) Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Answer: c) Lilly Ledbetter
78. When was the United Nations General Assembly’s adoption of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, which includes provisions for gender equality and protection against discrimination?
a) 1945
b) 1979
c) 1989
d) 1995
Answer: c) 1989
79. Who is the first woman to win the Fields Medal, often referred to as the “Nobel Prize of Mathematics,” awarded in 2018?
a) Maryam Mirzakhani
b) Karen Uhlenbeck
c) Mary Jackson
d) Sara Seager
Answer: b) Karen Uhlenbeck
80. Which women’s rights activist and suffragette led the movement for women’s voting rights in the United Kingdom and is commonly associated with the slogan “Deeds not Words”?
a) Millicent Fawcett
b) Emily Wilding Davison
c) Emmeline Pankhurst
d) Christabel Pankhurst
Answer: c) Emmeline Pankhurst
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