| 100% | MAWR | 4 | Bryn ___ (first women's college to offer graduate degrees) |
| 59% | OBERLIN | 7 | First U.S. college to award degrees to women |
| 53% | OBERLIN | 7 | Ohio college that was the first in the U.S. to award degrees to women |
| 44% | OBERLIN | 7 | Ohio college that was the first in the U.S. to admit women |
| 39% | BLACKWELL | 9 | Elizabeth ___, British physician who was the first woman to earn a medical degree in the US |
| 39% | WILLA | 5 | ___ Player, first Black woman to become president of a four-year college |
| 38% | ROSAPARKS | 9 | First woman to lie in honor in the U.S. Capitol |
| 37% | IDALUPINO | 9 | First woman to direct a film noir (1953's "The Hitch-Hiker") |
| 37% | EVE | 3 | First woman, to Christians |
| 37% | HAMPSHIRE | 9 | First U.S. college to divest from apartheid South Africa |
| 37% | SHIRLEYCHISHOLM | 15 | First Black woman elected to the U.S. Congress |
| 36% | BJORK | 5 | First woman to headline Coachella |
| 36% | JANET | 5 | With 28-Down, first woman to serve as U.S. attorney general |
| 36% | HELEN | 5 | I was the first deaf-blind person to earn a B.A. degree and I campaigned for women's rights |
| 36% | EVE | 3 | First woman according to the Bible |
| 36% | MAWR | 4 | Bryn ___ (women's college) |
| 35% | RENO | 4 | Janet who was the first woman to serve as U.S. attorney general |
| 35% | LEE | 3 | Rebecca ___ Crumpler, physician who was the first African-American woman in the US to earn a medical degree |
| 35% | SUSAN | 5 | ___ La Flesche Picotte, doctor and reformer who was the first Native American woman to earn a medical degree |
| 35% | EDERLE | 6 | First woman to swim the English Channel |
| 35% | CURIE | 5 | First woman to teach at the Sorbonne |
| 35% | CURIE | 5 | First woman to win the Nobel Prize |
| 35% | RENO | 4 | First woman to serve as attorney general |
| 35% | AMYMCGRATH | 10 | First woman to fly an F/A-18 in combat for the U.S. Marine Corps |
| 35% | PHD | 3 | Graduate degree held by many college professors: Abbr. |
| 34% | BIGELOW | 7 | First woman to win Best Director Oscar, Kathryn __ |
| 34% | EARHART | 7 | First woman to earn the Distinguished Flying Cross |
| 34% | CONNIECHUNG | 11 | First woman to co-anchor CBS Evening News |
| 34% | CURIE | 5 | First woman to win the Nobel Prize. Marie ___ |