![Women's History Month](/sites/default/files/styles/original/public/2021-03/womenshistorymonth_0.jpg?itok=Tos4K6fQ)
March is women’s history month and we have been celebrating. But honestly, there are so many women who have made profound contributions to astronomy, science, space exploration and more that it has been difficult to pick just a few to spotlight. All of us at the SETI Institute stand on the shoulders of these women and we are in awe of what they achieved in spite of the challenges they faced. We honor all women who changed our world and here are just a few:
![Andrea Ghez](/sites/default/files/inline-images/WHM-Andrea-Ghez_0.jpg)
http://www.astro.ucla.edu/~ghez/
![Caroline Hershel](/sites/default/files/inline-images/WHM-C-Herschel.jpg)
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Herschel_Caroline/
![Mary Jackson](/sites/default/files/inline-images/WHM-Mary-Jackson.jpg)
https://www.nasa.gov/content/mary-w-jackson-biography
![Anandabai Joshi](/sites/default/files/inline-images/WHM-Joshi.jpg)
https://www.indiatoday.in/education-today/gk-current-affairs/story/anandibai-joshi-all-about-the-first-indian-female-doctor-with-a-degree-in-western-medicine-1654396-2020-03-11
![Annie Jump Cannon](/sites/default/files/inline-images/WHM-Cannon.jpg)
https://www.sdsc.edu/ScienceWomen/cannon.html
![Annette S. Lee](/sites/default/files/inline-images/WHM-A-Lee.jpg)
https://annettelee.com/index.php/bio/
![Marie Maynard Daly](/sites/default/files/inline-images/WHM-M-Daly.jpg)
https://www.acs.org/content/acs/en/education/whatischemistry/african-americans-in-sciences/marie-maynard-daly.html
![Maryam Mirzakhani](/sites/default/files/inline-images/WHM-Mirzakhani.jpg)
https://www.nature.com/articles/549032a
![Maria Mitchell](/sites/default/files/inline-images/WHM-Mitchell.jpg)
https://www.mariamitchell.org/about-maria-mitchell
![Nichelle Nichols](/sites/default/files/inline-images/WHM-Nichols.jpg)
http://uhura.com/about/
![Ellen Ochoa](/sites/default/files/inline-images/WHM-Ochoa.jpg)
https://www.nasa.gov/centers/johnson/about/people/orgs/bios/ochoa.html
![Ana Roque de Duprey](/sites/default/files/inline-images/WHM-de-Duprey.jpg)
https://www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/ana-roque-de-duprey
![Carolyn Shoemaker](/sites/default/files/inline-images/WHM-C-Shoemaker.jpg)
https://astrogeology.usgs.gov/people/carolyn-shoemaker
![Jill Tarter](/sites/default/files/inline-images/WHM-Jill-Tarter.jpg)
https://www.seti.org/our-scientists/jill-tarter
![Valentina Tereshkova](/sites/default/files/inline-images/WHM-Tereshkova.jpg)
https://airandspace.si.edu/people/historical-figure/valentina-tereshkova
![Liu Yang](/sites/default/files/inline-images/WHM-Yang.jpg)
https://cpcchina.chinadaily.com.cn/2012-12/03/content_15981597.htm