Sarah E. Dickson becomes the first Presbyterian elder. Pearl S. Buck published The Good Earth . She would also become the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. Laura Ingalls Wilder publishes Little House on the Prairie . The U.S. Postal Service permits women to become postmistresses.
China bans the binding of women's feet.
Doris Humphrey founds Julliard Dance Theater. Dorothy Schiff becomes New York City's first female newspaper publisher, publishing The New York Post . Anne A. Lenz becomes the first commissioned officer in the Marine Corps Women's Reserve. Ayn Rand publishes The Fountainhead . The All American Girls Professional Baseball League is started by the Chicago Cubs owner Philip Wrigley and lasts for ten.