International Women's Day

New Zealand was the first country in the world to allow women to vote.

• True

• False

Pink is the emblematic colour of feminism.

• True

• False

Answer explanation

It is pink.

The first country to democratically elect a female Prime Minister was Sri Lanka.

• True

• False

“One is not born, but rather becomes a woman” is a quote from Virginia Woolf

• True

• False

Answer explanation

It was Simone de Beauvoir who said it.

Internationally, women become presidents more often than they become prime ministers.

• True

• False

Answer explanation

Women become prime ministers more often than they become presidents.

Diana Ross was the first female performer to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

• True

• False

Answer explanation

It was Aretha Franklin.

Nina Simone is also known as the “Queen of Jazz”.

• True

• False

Answer explanation

It was Ella Fitzgerald.

Women in the United States won the right to vote in 1848.

• True

• False

Answer explanation

It was in 1920.

Malala Yousafzai is the first female to win the Nobel Peace Prize.

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• True

• False

Answer explanation

But she is the youngest!

Gwyneth Paltrow started the “He for She” United Nations campaign for gender equality.

• True

• False

Answer explanation

It was Emma Watson (in 2014).