13 Women From the Past Who've Made a Huge Impact on the Present

by N/A, 10 years ago | 1 min read

To celebrate Women's Equality Day this week, here are 13 amazing women who made major strides for the women's rights movement.Â

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1. Valentina Tereshkova

This Russian-born astronaut was the first woman in space.

2. A Woman hits a neo-nazi with her purse in VÃ¤xjÃ¶, Sweden in 1985

3. Rosa Louise Mccauley Parks, Civil Rights Activist

4. 106-Year-Old woman protects her home in Armenia with a rifle.

5. Komako Kimura, Japanese Suffragist

6. Kathrine Switzer, first woman to run the Boston Marathon with a registered number.

She finished in 4 hours and 20 minutes.

7. Anne Frank

Frank, a Jewish diarist and writer, was killed by Nazis during the Holocaust.

8. Female firefighters at Pearl Harbor

9. Amelia Earhart

Earhart was the first female solo pilot to fly across the Atlantic Ocean.

10. Margaret Heafield

Heafield direction the software engineering For Nasa's Apollo Space Program in the 60s.

11. Malala Yousafzai

Yousafzai is a Pakistani advocate for female education and the youngest Nobel Prize Laureate. She was shot by the Taliban when she was only 14, but survived and went on to accomplish amazing things.

12. Female Samurai Warrior, 1800s

13. Marie Curie

Marie Curie was a physicist known for her work studying with radioactivity.