2 Days Ago was Women’s Equality Day. Celebrated on August 26th in the US, it commemorates the 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution, granting women the right to vote. It was certified in 1920, despite being introduced many years earlier in 1878, and since 1972, ever president has published a proclamation for Women’s Equality Day.
This is a list of strong women who did their part, both big and small, to make the world a better place.
#2 A Woman Hitting A Neo-Nazi With Her Handbag In Växjö, Sweden (13 April, 1985)
#3 Malala Yousafzai, Pakistani Activist For Female Education, The Youngest-ever Nobel Prize Laureate
#4 Margaret Heafield Was A Director Of Software Engineering For Nasa’s Apollo Space Program (1969)
#5 Russia-born Valentina Tereshkova Became The First Woman In Space Aboard The Vostok 6 (1963)
#6 Kathrine Switzer Was The First Woman To Run The Boston Marathon (1967). When Organizer Jock Semple Realised A Woman Was Running He Tried To Tackle Her
#7 One Of The Onna-Bugeisha, Female Samurai Warrior Of The Upper Bushi (Samurai), Class In Feudal Japan (Late 1800’s)
#7 One Of The Onna-Bugeisha, Female Samurai Warrior Of The Upper Bushi (Samurai), Class In Feudal Japan (Late 1800’s)
#9 These Women Were Firefighters At Pearl Harbor (1941)
#10 Komako Kimura, A Prominent Japanese Suffragist Marched On Fifth Avenue In New York City Demanding The Right To Vote (27 October, 1917)
#11 Eliza Leonida Zamfirescu, The First Woman Engineer In The World
#12 Rosa Louise Mccauley Parks – Civil Rights Activist
#13 Sofia Ionescu-ogrezeanu (25 April 1920 – 21 March 2008) Was A Romanian Neurosurgeon And Is Cons
#14 Anne Frank Was A Jewish Diarist And Writer
#15 A 106-year-old Woman Who Protected Her Home With A Rifle, In Armenia (1990)
#16 Maud Stevens Wagner Was The First Known Female Tattoo Artist In The United States (1907)
#17 Nadia Comaneci – The First Women To Score A Perfect 10 In Gymnastics At The Olympic Games
#18 Jane Goodall, Leading Primatologist And Conservationalist
#25 Suu Kyi (burma) Was Under House Arrest For 15 Yrs For Her Pre-democracy Campaigning.
#26 Taramon Bibi Is One Of The Two Female Freedom Fighters In Bangladesh
#28 Voting Activist Annie Lumpkins At The Little Rock City Jail (10 July, 1961)
#29 Gertrude Caroline Ederle Became The First Woman To Swim Across The English Channel (1926)
#30 The First European Woman Ever To Obtain A License And A Phd In Law From The University Of Paris
Source:| Bored Panda
