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In recent years, have the birth rates of women in West Virginia been increasing, decreasing, or staying about the same?
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She was a funeral director and civil rights leader in Charleston.
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How many women have served as West Virginia's governor?
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Oak Hill's Marian Herndon McQuade founded what celebration?
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Which university's art gallery is named for Della Brown Taylor Hardman?
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Who was the first woman from West Virginia to be elected to Congress?
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This Charleston native is best remembered for her Beulah Quintet, a sequence of five historical novels spanning four centuries.
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The story of this entertainer from Wayne County and her relationship with Louisiana Governor Earl Long was made into a major film with Paul Newman and Lolita Davidovich playing the leads.
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Dorothy Thompson of Tucker County was awarded a prestigious National Endowment for the Arts Heritage Fellowship for this skill.
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Which one of these women did NOT serve in the U.S. military during World War II?
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