These women may not have achieved their high places in jobs and the world if women had not worked during World War II. Sally Ride was one of these women. She was the first american women to travel in space. She was born in 1955 and in 1983 she was on the space shuttle Challenger.  She still lives today. Madeleine K. Albright was one of these women too. She was the United States secretary of state, the highest position held in the federal government by a woman, under President Bill Clinton in 1997. She was born in 1937 and is still living today. Althea Gibson was the first important black tennis player. She was once a leading women amateur player. She was born in 1927 and still lives today. Sandra Day O'connor was the first women to serve as  an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. She was born in 1930 and still lives today. These are a few of the many women who are famous today and it might be because women worked outside the home during World War II and stood up for their rights.