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It's a gender-neutral society. Right.
Bill Gates, naturally, has a Wikipedia page. It notes some of his dad's accomplishments and links to his page. It describes his mother as "teacher Mary Maxwell Gates".
Which she was.
In the 50s.
She was also
Edit: I'd read Ms Gates was the first woman appointed to the UW Board of Regents. Turns out Ruth Karr McKee served from 1917-1926; Eva Anderson in 1942-1946; and Dorothy Bullitt in 1958-1965.
Which she was.
In the 50s.
She was also
- On the University of Washington Board of Regents...
- The first female president of King County’s United Way...
- The first woman to be a director of First Interstate Bank of Washington...
- The first woman to chair National United Way’s executive committee...
- Hell, there's even a (possibly apocryphal) story about an IBM VP / United Way board member mentioning he needed to find someone to write some software for IBM's first microcomputer to Mary, who introduced the VP to her son Bill...
Edit: I'd read Ms Gates was the first woman appointed to the UW Board of Regents. Turns out Ruth Karr McKee served from 1917-1926; Eva Anderson in 1942-1946; and Dorothy Bullitt in 1958-1965.