Irena Sendlerowa
March 8 is International Women's Day (US has its equivalent on the 26th of August) which celebrates the struggle for women's rights. Throughout history, many strong women had to rise against the odds and fight for their dreams and passions, equality and solidarity among men.
Their bravery contributed to shaping today's world, and has to be remembered.
Malala Yousafzai
Woman Who Smuggled Approximately 2,500 Jewish Children Out Of The Warsaw Ghetto
Danuta Danielsson
19 years old, Pakistani Activist For Female Education Who Survived Being Shot In The Head By The Taliban, The Youngest Ever Nobel Prize Laureate
Marie Curie
38-year-old Woman Hitting A Neo-Nazi With Her Handbag In Växjö, Sweden (13 April, 1985)
Nujood Ali
Marie Curie Was A Polish Scientist Famous For Her Work On Radioactivity, The First Woman To Win A Nobel Prize And The Only Woman To Win Twice.
106-year-old Woman Guards Home
She Was Given To Abusive Husband At Age 10, Divorced Him And Broke Tribal Tradition
A 106-year-old woman sits in front of her home guarding it with a rifle, in Degh village, near the city of Goris in southern Armenia.
Pearl Harbor Firefighters
Armed conflicts took place in and around nearby Nagarno-Karabakh, a territory in Azerbaijan also claimed by Armenia.
Margaret Heafield
These Women Were Firefighters At Pearl Harbor (1941)
Zejneba Hardaga
Margaret Heafield Was A Director Of Software Engineering For NASA's Apollo Space Program (1969)
The picture below shows Zejneba Hardaga guiding a Jewish woman (Rivka Kavillo) and her children down a street in Sarajevo in 1941.
Annie Lumpkins
As they walk, Zejneba covers Rivka’s yellow star with her veil.
Female Samurai Warrior
Voting Activist Annie Lumpkins At The Little Rock City Jail (10 July, 1961)
Jane Goodall
One Of The Onna-Bugeisha, Female Samurai Warrior Of The Upper Bushi (Samurai), Class In Feudal Japan (Late 1800's)
Jane Goodall is Leading Primatologist And Conservationalist.
Maud Stevens Wagner
She created one of the most trailblazing studies of primates in modern times when she dwelled with Tanzanian chimps to observe their behavior.
Anne Frank
Anne Frank was a German-Jewish teenager who was forced to go into hiding during the Holocaust. Also She Was A Diarist And Writer.
Amelia Earhart
Rosa Louise Mccauley Parks
She Was The First Female Aviator To Fly Solo Across The Atlantic Ocean (1928)
Valentina Tereshkova
Rosa Louise Mccauley Parks was an American civil rights activist, whom the United States Congress called "the first lady of civil rights" and "the mother of the freedom movement".
Mary Winsor
Russia-Born Valentina Tereshkova Became The First Woman In Space Aboard The Vostok 6 (1963)
Mary Winsor Holding Suffrage Prisoners Banner In Washington D.C.
Eliza Leonida Zamfirescu
(1917)
Annette Kellerman
First female student of the Royal Technical Academy of Berlin's and first female engineer in Europe was Eliza Leonida Zamfirescu, a Romanian young lady, daughter of intellectuals Leonida Anastase and Matilda Gill, and scientist Dimitrie Leonida’ sister.
Annette Kellerman Promoted Women’s Right To Wear A Fitted One-Piece Bathing Suit (1907).
Nadia Comaneci
She Was Arrested For Indecency
Komako Kimura
The first person to score a perfect 10 at the Olympic Games was Romanian Nadia Comăneci, at the 1976 Games in Montreal.
Marina Ginestà
A Prominent Japanese Suffragist Komako Kimura Marched On Fifth Avenue In New York City Demanding The Right To Vote (27 October, 1917)
Marina Ginestà Was A French Veteran Of The Spanish Civil War.
Yusra Mardini
This Is Her Most Famous Picture At The Top Of Hotel Colón In Barcelona (21 July, 1936)
Harriet Tubman
Syrian Teenage Refugee Yusra Mardini Who Swam For Hours In The Sea Pushing A Sinking Boat With Other Refugees To Safety
Harriet Tubman escaped slavery to become a leading abolitionist.
She led hundreds of enslaved people to freedom along the route of the Underground Railroad.