Women's Amateur Athletic Association is founded. Maud Howe Elliott and Laura Howe Richards are the first women to win the Pulitzer Prize for biography. They share the award for their profile of their mother, entitled Julia Ward Howe . The first woman to receive the Pulitzer Prize for poetry is Edna St. Vincent Millay, for The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver . The first woman to swim the English Channel is U.S. swimmer Gertrude Ederle .
Women compete for the first time in Olympic field events.
U.S. anthropologist Margaret Mead publishes Coming of Age in Samoa . Age of suffrage is lowered from 30 to 21 in Great Britain. 1930 World population reaches two billion. Margaret Sanger publishes My Fight for Birth Control . Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly across the Atlantic alone.