Amelia Earhart is one of the most famous women of history. Even though she is not with us today, her legacy will live on. She was the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic, and a few years later she became the best-known female flier in America. Amelia was one of the few women who stood up for equal rights for women at the time. In her free time she collected newspaper articles and pictures of women who were successful in male-dominated fields such as film, law, science, management, and engineering. Before Amelia left to her second attempt at her world flight, she was a career counselor to hundreds of people, mostly women, at Purdue’s West Lafayette. As a career counselor she encouraged women to consider nontraditional careers such as
