This is a list of women's firsts noting the first time that a woman or women achieved a given historical feat. A shorthand phrase for this development is "breaking the gender barrier" or "breaking the
glass ceiling."[1][2] Other terms related to the glass ceiling can be used for specific fields related to those terms, such as "breaking the brass ceiling" for women in the military and "breaking the stained glass ceiling" for women clergy.[3][4]
Inclusion on the list is reserved for achievements by women that have significant historical impact.
Joan was the first person in history to fly solo around the world at the equator, the first person to complete the longest single solo flight around the world, the first woman to fly a twin-engine aircraft around the world, the first woman to fly the Pacific Ocean from west to east in a twin-engine plane, the first woman to receive an airline transport rating at the age of 23, and the youngest woman to complete a solo flight around the world.
Born Lucy Hobbs on March 14, 1833, in Constable, New York. She was initially denied admission to dental school, then began private study with a professor from the
Ohio College of Dental Surgery. In November 1865, she entered the Ohio College of Dental Surgery, where in 1866 she earned her doctorate in dentistry, becoming the first woman in the United States to do so. She married James Taylor and he followed her into the practice of dentistry. The two moved to
Lawrence, Kansas, where they practiced together until her husband's death in 1886. She retired and became active in women's rights, and died in 1910.
Founded
Katharine Lady Berkeley's School, the first founded by a layperson, the first founded by a woman, and the first to offer free education to anyone.[40]
1911:
Marie Sklodowska-Curie, first woman to win the
Nobel Prize in Chemistry.[81] First person (and only woman to date) to win two Nobel Prizes. Only person to win a Nobel Prize in two different sciences.
Sukhbaataryn Yanjmaa,
Mongolia (1953–1954): The first female acting head of state (Chairperson of the Presidium of the State Great Khural).
Sirimavo Bandaranaike,
Ceylon, now Sri Lanka (1960–1965): The first elected female prime minister (
head of government) of a sovereign country. She served again 1970–77 and 1994–2000; in total she served for 17 years.
Indira Gandhi,
India (1966–1977): The first female prime minister of a present-day
G20 country. She served again 1980–1984.
Soong Ching-ling,
China (1968–1972): The first female acting co-head of state (Co-Chairperson). She later served as Honorary President for 12 days in 1981.
Golda Meir,
Israel (1969–1974): The first female prime minister in the Middle East.
Margaret Thatcher,
United Kingdom (1979–1990): The first female prime minister of a
G7/
P5 country and the first female prime minister of a sovereign European country.
Vigdís Finnbogadóttir,
Iceland (1980–1996): The first democratically directly elected female president. With a presidency of exactly sixteen years, she also remains the longest-serving elected female head of state of any country to date.
Jeanne Sauvé,
Canada (1984–1990): The first female head of state in North America.
Kim Campbell,
Canada (1993): The first female head of government in North America.
Tansu Çiller,
Turkey (1993–1996): The first elected Muslim female prime minister in Europe.
Chandrika Kumaratunga,
Sri Lanka (1994–2000): The first time that a nation possessed a female president (Chandrika Kumaratunga) and a female prime minister (
Sirimavo Bandaranaike) simultaneously. This also marked the first time that a female prime minister (Sirimavo Bandaranaike) directly succeeded another female prime minister (Chandrika Kumaratunga).
Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir,
Iceland (2009–2013): As prime minister, she was the world's first openly lesbian world leader, first female world leader to wed a same-sex partner while in office.
1989:
Shawna Robinson became the first woman to win a NASCAR-sanctioned stock car race, winning in the Charlotte/Daytona Dash Series at New Asheville Speedway.
1960:
Wilma Rudolph, track and field champion, became the first American woman to win three gold medals in the
Rome Olympics.[106] She elevated women's track to a major presence in the United States. As a member of the black community, she is also regarded as a civil rights and women's rights pioneer. Along with other 1960 Olympic athletes such as Cassius Clay (who later became Muhammad Ali), Rudolph became an international star due to the first international television coverage of the Olympics that year.
1993:
Halli Reid became the first woman to swim across
Lake Erie, swimming from Long Point, Ontario, to North East, Pennsylvania, in 17 hours.[113][114][115]
2009:
Kei Taniguchi becomes the first woman to win the
Piolet d'Or (Golden Ice Axe), the "Oscar" of Mountaineering.
September 4, 2009: Carolynn Sells became the first woman to win a solo motorcycle race on the
Snaefell Mountain Course in the
Isle of Man when she won the Ultra Lightweight race at the 2009
Manx Grand Prix.
August 9, 2012:
Shannon Eastin becomes the first woman to officiate a
National Football League game in a pre-season matchup between the Green Bay Packers and the San Diego Chargers.[122]
May 31, 2013:
Lydia Nsekera became the first female
FIFA Executive Committee member.[124]
May 18, 2013:
Rosie Napravnik places third in the
Preakness Stakes on Mylute, making her the first woman to have ridden in all three
Triple Crown races.[125] On June 8, 2013, she rode the filly Unlimited Budget to a 6th-place finish in the
2013 Belmont, becoming the first woman to ride all three Triple Crown races in the same year.[126]
September 23, 2013:
Sarah Outen arrived in a small harbor on the Aleutian island of Adak, and thus became the first person to row solo from Japan to Alaska, as well as the first woman to complete a mid-Pacific row from West to East.[128]
2013: Davie Jane Gilmour became the first woman to lead the board of directors for Little League.[129]
2013: UFC 157, which took place in February, featured not only the first women's fight in UFC history but also the first UFC event to be headlined by two female fighters (
Ronda Rousey and
Liz Carmouche).[130]
2013: On her fifth attempt and at the age of 64,
Diana Nyad became the first person confirmed to swim from
Cuba to Florida without the protection of a
shark cage, swimming from
Havana to
Key West.[131]
2013: Scotland's solicitor general,
Lesley Thomson, became the first woman to be appointed to Scottish Rugby's board.[132]
2013: Anna Wardley, from England, became the first woman to swim non-stop around the
Isle of Wight.[133]
2013: Maria Toor, a squash player from
South Waziristan, became the winner of the first ever women's event in the Nash Cup in Canada by beating Milou van der Heijden of the Netherlands 13–11, 11–3, 11–9.[137]
2013:
Tatyana McFadden won the Boston, Chicago, London, and New York marathons in 2013.[140][141][142][143] This makes her the first person – able-bodied or otherwise – to win the four major marathons in the same year.[142][143][144] She also set a new course record for the Chicago Marathon (1 hour, 42 minutes, 35 seconds).[142]
2013: Denise Fejtek became the first woman to complete the "Peak to Heat Double" – the combination of summiting
Mount Everest and finishing the
Ironman Triathlon World Championship in Kona, Hawaii.[citation needed] She reached the Everest Summit on May 23, 2010, and finished the Hawaii Ironman in October 2013.[145]
2013: Sonya Baumstein became the first person to stand-up paddleboard across the
Bering Strait.[146][147]
2013: Meredith Novack became the fastest person, and first woman, to pull a double crossing of the Auau Channel in Hawaii.[148][149] Her time was 11 hours and one minute.[149]
2013: Emily Bell became the first woman to kayak the length of Britain.[153]
2013:
Casey Stoney became the first female member of the Professional Footballers' Association's management committee.[154]
2013: Jodi Eller became the first woman to complete the 1,515-mile Florida Circumnavigational Saltwater Paddling Trail.[155]
2013: On March 1, 2013, Privateers owner and president Nicole Kirnan served as the team's coach for the first time, making her the first woman to coach a professional hockey team in the United States.[156][157]
2014:
Torah Bright became the first woman to qualify for three snowboard disciplines at a Winter Olympics, specifically snowboard cross, halfpipe and slopestyle.[158]
2014: Ashley Freiberg became the first woman to win an overall race in Continental Tire Challenge History when she won the Continental Tire SportsCar Challenge. Her co-driver was
Shelby Blackstock.[159]
2014: The first women competed in
ski jumping at the Olympics.[160]
2014:
Jennifer Welter became the first female non-kicker or placekick-holder to play in a men's pro football game; she played running back for the Texas Revolution.[161]
2014: Annabel Anderson, from New Zealand, became the first woman to cross
Cook Strait standing on a
paddleboard.[164]
2014: Peta Searle became the first woman appointed as a development coach in the
Australian Football League when she was chosen by St Kilda as a development coach.[165]
2014: 16-year-old Katie Ormerod, from Britain, became the first female snowboarder to land a backside double cork 1080.[166]
2014: Shelby Osborne became the first female defensive back in American football when she was drafted by Campbellsville University in Kentucky.[167]
2014:
Corinne Diacre became the first woman to coach a men's professional soccer team (
Clermont Foot) in a competitive match in France on August 4, 2014, her 40th birthday.[169]
2014:
Cecilia Brækhus, from Norway, became the first Norwegian and the first woman to hold all major world championship titles in her weight division (welterweight) in boxing.[170]
2014: On August 15, 2014,
Mo'ne Davis was the first girl in Little League World Series history to pitch a winning game for the Taney Dragons and earned the win,[171] and she was also the first girl to pitch a shutout in Little League postseason history.[172][173]
2014: Amy Hughes, from England, ran 53 marathons in 53 days, thus setting the record for the most marathons run on consecutive days by any person, male or female.[174]
2015:
Jennifer Welter became the first woman hired to coach in men's pro football when the Texas Revolution of the Champions Indoor Football league announced that Welter was hired to coach linebackers and special teams.[175]
2019:
G. S. Lakshmi, former Indian cricketer, becomes the first female
ICC match referee
2021: First African-American female full-time NFL coach (Washington Football Team);
Jennifer King.[176]
^Gene Nora Jessen, The Powder Puff Derby of 1929, pg xi
^Ernst Probst Königinnen der Lüfte in Frankreich 2010 Page 61 "Élisabeth Thible Die erste Passagierin einer Montgolfière Die erste Frau, die in einer
Montgolfière in die Luft abhob, war die französische Opernsängerin Élisabeth Thible, nach anderer Schreibweise auch Tible."
^Justin D. Murphy -Military Aircraft, Origins To 1918 2005 – Page 6 "In February 1784, Paolo Andreani, Agostino Gerli, and Carlo Gerli ascended in a Montgolfière outside Milan. On 4 June 1784, Élisabeth Thible became the first female aeronaut when she ascended over Lyons."
^"Women Combat Pilots of WW1".
Monash University. Retrieved October 18, 2010. Princess Eugenie M. Shakhovskaya was Russia's first woman military pilot. Served with the 1st Field Air Squadron. Unknown if she actually flew any combat missions, and she was ultimately charged with treason and attempting to flee to enemy lines. Sentenced to death by firing squad, sentence commuted to life imprisonment by the Tsar, freed during the Revolution, became chief executioner for Gen. Tchecka and drug addict, shot one of her assistants in a narcotic delerium and was herself shot.
^"1915 – First woman pilot in combat missions as a bomber pilot – Marie Marvingt (France)". Centennial of Women Pilots. Archived from
the original on January 11, 2015. Retrieved January 10, 2015. In 1915, Marvingt became the first woman in the world to fly combat missions when she became a volunteer pilot flying bombing missions over German-held territory and she received the Croix de Guerre (Military Cross) for her aerial bombing of a German military base in Metz.
^Historic Wings – Online Magazine; Article on Hélène Dutrieu Coupe Femina and Marie Marvingt:, Published on December 21, 2012:
^Grendler, Paul F. (1988). O'Malley, John W. (ed.). Schools, Seminaries, and Catechetical Instruction, in Catholicism in Early Modern History 1500–1700: A Guide to Research. Center for Information Research. p. 328.
^Findlen, Paula. Science As A Career in Enlightenment Italy : The Strategies Of Laura Bassi. Isis 84.(1993): 440–469. History of Science, Technology & Medicine. Web. 3 June 2013."
^"Laura Bassi". Encyclopedia of World Biography. Encyclopedia.com. Retrieved October 30, 2012.
^Schwartz, Agata (2008). Shifting Voices: Feminist Thought and Women's Writing in Fin-de-siècle Austria and Hungary. McGill-Queen's Press – MQUP. p. 248.
ISBN978-0-7735-3286-1.
^Livingstone, David. "A Beautiful Life; Or, How a Local Girl Ended Up With a Recording Contract in the UK and Who Has Ambitions in the U.S.", Campus, No. 8, Beirut, February 1997.
^Ajouz, Wafik. "From Broumana to the Top Ten: Lydia Canaan, Lebanon's 'Angel' on the Road to Stardom", Cedar Wings, No. 28, p. 2, Beirut, July–August 1995.
^Aschkar, Youmna. "New Hit For Lydia Canaan", Eco News, No. 77, p. 2, Beirut, January 20, 1997.
^Grace, Anna (February 9, 2012).
"Sexism on the Stage". eugeneweekly.com. Archived from
the original on February 19, 2014. Retrieved September 5, 2013.
^"Archived copy"(PDF). kirchen.ch:80. Archived from
the original(PDF) on March 22, 2003. Retrieved May 22, 2022.{{
cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (
link)
This is a list of women's firsts noting the first time that a woman or women achieved a given historical feat. A shorthand phrase for this development is "breaking the gender barrier" or "breaking the
glass ceiling."[1][2] Other terms related to the glass ceiling can be used for specific fields related to those terms, such as "breaking the brass ceiling" for women in the military and "breaking the stained glass ceiling" for women clergy.[3][4]
Inclusion on the list is reserved for achievements by women that have significant historical impact.
Joan was the first person in history to fly solo around the world at the equator, the first person to complete the longest single solo flight around the world, the first woman to fly a twin-engine aircraft around the world, the first woman to fly the Pacific Ocean from west to east in a twin-engine plane, the first woman to receive an airline transport rating at the age of 23, and the youngest woman to complete a solo flight around the world.
Born Lucy Hobbs on March 14, 1833, in Constable, New York. She was initially denied admission to dental school, then began private study with a professor from the
Ohio College of Dental Surgery. In November 1865, she entered the Ohio College of Dental Surgery, where in 1866 she earned her doctorate in dentistry, becoming the first woman in the United States to do so. She married James Taylor and he followed her into the practice of dentistry. The two moved to
Lawrence, Kansas, where they practiced together until her husband's death in 1886. She retired and became active in women's rights, and died in 1910.
Founded
Katharine Lady Berkeley's School, the first founded by a layperson, the first founded by a woman, and the first to offer free education to anyone.[40]
1911:
Marie Sklodowska-Curie, first woman to win the
Nobel Prize in Chemistry.[81] First person (and only woman to date) to win two Nobel Prizes. Only person to win a Nobel Prize in two different sciences.
Sukhbaataryn Yanjmaa,
Mongolia (1953–1954): The first female acting head of state (Chairperson of the Presidium of the State Great Khural).
Sirimavo Bandaranaike,
Ceylon, now Sri Lanka (1960–1965): The first elected female prime minister (
head of government) of a sovereign country. She served again 1970–77 and 1994–2000; in total she served for 17 years.
Indira Gandhi,
India (1966–1977): The first female prime minister of a present-day
G20 country. She served again 1980–1984.
Soong Ching-ling,
China (1968–1972): The first female acting co-head of state (Co-Chairperson). She later served as Honorary President for 12 days in 1981.
Golda Meir,
Israel (1969–1974): The first female prime minister in the Middle East.
Margaret Thatcher,
United Kingdom (1979–1990): The first female prime minister of a
G7/
P5 country and the first female prime minister of a sovereign European country.
Vigdís Finnbogadóttir,
Iceland (1980–1996): The first democratically directly elected female president. With a presidency of exactly sixteen years, she also remains the longest-serving elected female head of state of any country to date.
Jeanne Sauvé,
Canada (1984–1990): The first female head of state in North America.
Kim Campbell,
Canada (1993): The first female head of government in North America.
Tansu Çiller,
Turkey (1993–1996): The first elected Muslim female prime minister in Europe.
Chandrika Kumaratunga,
Sri Lanka (1994–2000): The first time that a nation possessed a female president (Chandrika Kumaratunga) and a female prime minister (
Sirimavo Bandaranaike) simultaneously. This also marked the first time that a female prime minister (Sirimavo Bandaranaike) directly succeeded another female prime minister (Chandrika Kumaratunga).
Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir,
Iceland (2009–2013): As prime minister, she was the world's first openly lesbian world leader, first female world leader to wed a same-sex partner while in office.
1989:
Shawna Robinson became the first woman to win a NASCAR-sanctioned stock car race, winning in the Charlotte/Daytona Dash Series at New Asheville Speedway.
1960:
Wilma Rudolph, track and field champion, became the first American woman to win three gold medals in the
Rome Olympics.[106] She elevated women's track to a major presence in the United States. As a member of the black community, she is also regarded as a civil rights and women's rights pioneer. Along with other 1960 Olympic athletes such as Cassius Clay (who later became Muhammad Ali), Rudolph became an international star due to the first international television coverage of the Olympics that year.
1993:
Halli Reid became the first woman to swim across
Lake Erie, swimming from Long Point, Ontario, to North East, Pennsylvania, in 17 hours.[113][114][115]
2009:
Kei Taniguchi becomes the first woman to win the
Piolet d'Or (Golden Ice Axe), the "Oscar" of Mountaineering.
September 4, 2009: Carolynn Sells became the first woman to win a solo motorcycle race on the
Snaefell Mountain Course in the
Isle of Man when she won the Ultra Lightweight race at the 2009
Manx Grand Prix.
August 9, 2012:
Shannon Eastin becomes the first woman to officiate a
National Football League game in a pre-season matchup between the Green Bay Packers and the San Diego Chargers.[122]
May 31, 2013:
Lydia Nsekera became the first female
FIFA Executive Committee member.[124]
May 18, 2013:
Rosie Napravnik places third in the
Preakness Stakes on Mylute, making her the first woman to have ridden in all three
Triple Crown races.[125] On June 8, 2013, she rode the filly Unlimited Budget to a 6th-place finish in the
2013 Belmont, becoming the first woman to ride all three Triple Crown races in the same year.[126]
September 23, 2013:
Sarah Outen arrived in a small harbor on the Aleutian island of Adak, and thus became the first person to row solo from Japan to Alaska, as well as the first woman to complete a mid-Pacific row from West to East.[128]
2013: Davie Jane Gilmour became the first woman to lead the board of directors for Little League.[129]
2013: UFC 157, which took place in February, featured not only the first women's fight in UFC history but also the first UFC event to be headlined by two female fighters (
Ronda Rousey and
Liz Carmouche).[130]
2013: On her fifth attempt and at the age of 64,
Diana Nyad became the first person confirmed to swim from
Cuba to Florida without the protection of a
shark cage, swimming from
Havana to
Key West.[131]
2013: Scotland's solicitor general,
Lesley Thomson, became the first woman to be appointed to Scottish Rugby's board.[132]
2013: Anna Wardley, from England, became the first woman to swim non-stop around the
Isle of Wight.[133]
2013: Maria Toor, a squash player from
South Waziristan, became the winner of the first ever women's event in the Nash Cup in Canada by beating Milou van der Heijden of the Netherlands 13–11, 11–3, 11–9.[137]
2013:
Tatyana McFadden won the Boston, Chicago, London, and New York marathons in 2013.[140][141][142][143] This makes her the first person – able-bodied or otherwise – to win the four major marathons in the same year.[142][143][144] She also set a new course record for the Chicago Marathon (1 hour, 42 minutes, 35 seconds).[142]
2013: Denise Fejtek became the first woman to complete the "Peak to Heat Double" – the combination of summiting
Mount Everest and finishing the
Ironman Triathlon World Championship in Kona, Hawaii.[citation needed] She reached the Everest Summit on May 23, 2010, and finished the Hawaii Ironman in October 2013.[145]
2013: Sonya Baumstein became the first person to stand-up paddleboard across the
Bering Strait.[146][147]
2013: Meredith Novack became the fastest person, and first woman, to pull a double crossing of the Auau Channel in Hawaii.[148][149] Her time was 11 hours and one minute.[149]
2013: Emily Bell became the first woman to kayak the length of Britain.[153]
2013:
Casey Stoney became the first female member of the Professional Footballers' Association's management committee.[154]
2013: Jodi Eller became the first woman to complete the 1,515-mile Florida Circumnavigational Saltwater Paddling Trail.[155]
2013: On March 1, 2013, Privateers owner and president Nicole Kirnan served as the team's coach for the first time, making her the first woman to coach a professional hockey team in the United States.[156][157]
2014:
Torah Bright became the first woman to qualify for three snowboard disciplines at a Winter Olympics, specifically snowboard cross, halfpipe and slopestyle.[158]
2014: Ashley Freiberg became the first woman to win an overall race in Continental Tire Challenge History when she won the Continental Tire SportsCar Challenge. Her co-driver was
Shelby Blackstock.[159]
2014: The first women competed in
ski jumping at the Olympics.[160]
2014:
Jennifer Welter became the first female non-kicker or placekick-holder to play in a men's pro football game; she played running back for the Texas Revolution.[161]
2014: Annabel Anderson, from New Zealand, became the first woman to cross
Cook Strait standing on a
paddleboard.[164]
2014: Peta Searle became the first woman appointed as a development coach in the
Australian Football League when she was chosen by St Kilda as a development coach.[165]
2014: 16-year-old Katie Ormerod, from Britain, became the first female snowboarder to land a backside double cork 1080.[166]
2014: Shelby Osborne became the first female defensive back in American football when she was drafted by Campbellsville University in Kentucky.[167]
2014:
Corinne Diacre became the first woman to coach a men's professional soccer team (
Clermont Foot) in a competitive match in France on August 4, 2014, her 40th birthday.[169]
2014:
Cecilia Brækhus, from Norway, became the first Norwegian and the first woman to hold all major world championship titles in her weight division (welterweight) in boxing.[170]
2014: On August 15, 2014,
Mo'ne Davis was the first girl in Little League World Series history to pitch a winning game for the Taney Dragons and earned the win,[171] and she was also the first girl to pitch a shutout in Little League postseason history.[172][173]
2014: Amy Hughes, from England, ran 53 marathons in 53 days, thus setting the record for the most marathons run on consecutive days by any person, male or female.[174]
2015:
Jennifer Welter became the first woman hired to coach in men's pro football when the Texas Revolution of the Champions Indoor Football league announced that Welter was hired to coach linebackers and special teams.[175]
2019:
G. S. Lakshmi, former Indian cricketer, becomes the first female
ICC match referee
2021: First African-American female full-time NFL coach (Washington Football Team);
Jennifer King.[176]
^Gene Nora Jessen, The Powder Puff Derby of 1929, pg xi
^Ernst Probst Königinnen der Lüfte in Frankreich 2010 Page 61 "Élisabeth Thible Die erste Passagierin einer Montgolfière Die erste Frau, die in einer
Montgolfière in die Luft abhob, war die französische Opernsängerin Élisabeth Thible, nach anderer Schreibweise auch Tible."
^Justin D. Murphy -Military Aircraft, Origins To 1918 2005 – Page 6 "In February 1784, Paolo Andreani, Agostino Gerli, and Carlo Gerli ascended in a Montgolfière outside Milan. On 4 June 1784, Élisabeth Thible became the first female aeronaut when she ascended over Lyons."
^"Women Combat Pilots of WW1".
Monash University. Retrieved October 18, 2010. Princess Eugenie M. Shakhovskaya was Russia's first woman military pilot. Served with the 1st Field Air Squadron. Unknown if she actually flew any combat missions, and she was ultimately charged with treason and attempting to flee to enemy lines. Sentenced to death by firing squad, sentence commuted to life imprisonment by the Tsar, freed during the Revolution, became chief executioner for Gen. Tchecka and drug addict, shot one of her assistants in a narcotic delerium and was herself shot.
^"1915 – First woman pilot in combat missions as a bomber pilot – Marie Marvingt (France)". Centennial of Women Pilots. Archived from
the original on January 11, 2015. Retrieved January 10, 2015. In 1915, Marvingt became the first woman in the world to fly combat missions when she became a volunteer pilot flying bombing missions over German-held territory and she received the Croix de Guerre (Military Cross) for her aerial bombing of a German military base in Metz.
^Historic Wings – Online Magazine; Article on Hélène Dutrieu Coupe Femina and Marie Marvingt:, Published on December 21, 2012:
^Grendler, Paul F. (1988). O'Malley, John W. (ed.). Schools, Seminaries, and Catechetical Instruction, in Catholicism in Early Modern History 1500–1700: A Guide to Research. Center for Information Research. p. 328.
^Findlen, Paula. Science As A Career in Enlightenment Italy : The Strategies Of Laura Bassi. Isis 84.(1993): 440–469. History of Science, Technology & Medicine. Web. 3 June 2013."
^"Laura Bassi". Encyclopedia of World Biography. Encyclopedia.com. Retrieved October 30, 2012.
^Schwartz, Agata (2008). Shifting Voices: Feminist Thought and Women's Writing in Fin-de-siècle Austria and Hungary. McGill-Queen's Press – MQUP. p. 248.
ISBN978-0-7735-3286-1.
^Livingstone, David. "A Beautiful Life; Or, How a Local Girl Ended Up With a Recording Contract in the UK and Who Has Ambitions in the U.S.", Campus, No. 8, Beirut, February 1997.
^Ajouz, Wafik. "From Broumana to the Top Ten: Lydia Canaan, Lebanon's 'Angel' on the Road to Stardom", Cedar Wings, No. 28, p. 2, Beirut, July–August 1995.
^Aschkar, Youmna. "New Hit For Lydia Canaan", Eco News, No. 77, p. 2, Beirut, January 20, 1997.
^Grace, Anna (February 9, 2012).
"Sexism on the Stage". eugeneweekly.com. Archived from
the original on February 19, 2014. Retrieved September 5, 2013.
^"Archived copy"(PDF). kirchen.ch:80. Archived from
the original(PDF) on March 22, 2003. Retrieved May 22, 2022.{{
cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (
link)