Happy International Women's Day! - 10 Amazing Women in History
Mar 08, 2019
Today is International Women’s Day! Many people assume that International Women’s Day is simply a day for feminists, and while it certainly is a day that feminists will take more pride in, it’s a day for everyone to celebrate women! So to celebrate I took the time to do a bit of research and collaborate a list of ten amazing women in history:
Rosa Parks played a major role in the American Civil Rights movement. She is best known for her role in sparking the Montgomery bus boycott.
Malala Yousafzai is a young Pakistani activist for female education. Yousafzai was shot in 2012 on her way home from school by a gunman who was retaliating against her activism, but she survived and continued to fight for female rights to education and later won a Nobel Peace Prize.
Marie Curie was the first woman to win a Nobel peace prize and the only person to win a Nobel peace prize in two different types of science. She was both a chemist and a physicist who conducted research in radioactivity. One of her major contributions was her discovery of radium and other elements.
Eleanor Roosevelt served as a first lady of the United States from March 1933- April 1945. She completely changed what it meant to be a first lady and was a major leader and activist through humanitarian causes during her life.
Benazir Bhutto was the first woman to lead a democratic government in a Muslim majority population in Pakistan. She became prime minister after a military coup overthrew her father's government and was then elected into government.
Beverley McLachlin was the first woman to hold the position as Chief of Justice in Canada's Supreme Court.
Mother Teresa was a Catholic nun and spent the majority of her life doing charity work internationally with many patients in war-torn countries.
Dr. Mae Jemison is an American physicist and was the first African American woman to enter space.
Anne Frank was a German-born Jewish diarist and victim of the holocaust. During the Holocaust, Anne and her family were forced into hiding where she kept a diary. It was later published and is an account of the holocaust and a classic of war literature.
Wangarri Muta Maathai was a Kenyan environmental political activist and the founder of the Green Belt Movement.
While the list could go on and on, this is just a few of the amazing women who have impacted the world, as women have done and will continue to do!
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