These women have changed history forever by being strong, brave, and human, regardless of societys expectations for them.
These women have changed history forever by being strong, brave, and human, regardless of societys expectations for them.
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Jeanne Manford marches with her gay son during a Pride Parade. 1972
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Women railroad workers at lunch. Many were the wives and even mothers of the men who left for war. 1943
3
Ellen ONeal, one of the first professional female skaters. 1976
4
A Swedish woman hitting a neo-Nazi protester with her handbag. The woman was reportedly a concentration camp survivor. 1985
5
Parisian mothers shield their children from German sniper fire. 1944
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Female members of the Hell's Angels gang. 1973
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A Muslim woman covers the yellow star of her Jewish neighbour with her veil to protect her from prosecution. Sarajevo, former Yugoslavia. 1941
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Female volunteers learn how to fight fires at Pearl Harbor c. 1941 - 1945
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106-year old Armenian woman protecting her home with an AK-47. 1990
11
Some of the first women sworn into US Marine Corps. August, 1918
12
Anna Fisher, "the first mother in space" 1980s
13
Two women show uncovered legs in public for the first time in Toronto. 1937
14
Filipino guerilla, Captain Nieves Fernandez, shows a US soldier how she killed Japanese soldiers during the occupation. 1944
15
Komako Kimura, a prominent Japanese suffragist at a march in New York. October 23, 1917
16
Sabiha Gken of Turkey poses with her plane, in 1937 she became the first female fighter pilot.
17
Marina Ginesta, a 17-year-old communist militant, overlooking Barcelona during the Spanish Civil War. 1936
18
Margaret Bourke-White, a photographer, climbing the Chrysler Building. 1934
19
Kathrine Switzer becomes the first woman to run the Boston Marathon, despite attempts by the marathon organizer to stop her. 1967
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Girls deliver heavy blocks of ice after male workers were conscripted 1918
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A Dutch woman refuses to leave her husband, a German soldier, after Allied soldiers capture him. She followed him into captivity. 1944
22
Women boxing on a roof in LA. 1933
23
A woman drinking tea in the aftermath of a German bombing raid during the London Blitz. 1940
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A female mason high above Berlin. c. 1900
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Elspeth Beard, during her attempt to become the first Englishwoman to circumnavigate the world by motorcycle. 1980s
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Gertrude Ederle becomes the first woman to swim across the English Channel. 1926
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A woman suffrage activist protesting after "The Night of Terror." 1917
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A captured Soviet soldier is given water by a Ukrainian woman after being captured. 1941
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Afghan women at a public library before the Taliban seized power. c. 1950s
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A mother plays with her child on the beach. c. 1950s
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Aviator Amelia Earhart after becoming the first woman to fly an aircraft across the Atlantic Ocean. 1928
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Afghan women studying medicine. 1962
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A British sergeant training members of the mums army Women's Home Defence Corps during the Battle of Britain. 1940
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The iconic photo of a concerned pea-picker and mother of seven children during the Dust Bowl. 1936
35
Women's Liberation Coalition March, Detroit, Michigan. 1970
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Women's league roller derby skaters in New York. March 10, 1950
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The first womens basketball team from Smith College 1902
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18 year old French Rsistance fighter, Simone Segouin, during the liberation of Paris. 19 August 1944
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A Los Angeles Police Officer looks after an abandoned baby in the drawer of her desk. 1971
40
Female snipers of the Soviet 3rd Shock Army. May 4, 1945
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A tattooist's wife. 1907
42
Voting activist Annie Lumpkins at the Little Rock city jail. 1961
43
Annette Kellerman posing in a swimsuit that got her arrested for indecency. c. 1907
44
A mother shows a picture of her son to returning prisoners of war in an attempt to find him. Vienna, 1947
45
Leola N. King, America's first female traffic cop, Washington D.C. 1918
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Erika, a 15-year-old Hungarian fighter who fought for freedom against the Soviet Union. October 1956
47
American nurses land in Normandy. 1944
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Photograph of a female samurai warrior. c. late 1800s
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A female Lockheed employee working on a P-38 Lightning Burbank, California, 1944
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A Red Cross nurse takes down the last words of a British soldier. c. 1917
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Female pilots leaving their B-17, "Pistol Packin' Mama" c. 1941 - 1945
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Sarla Thakral, 21 years old, the first Indian woman to earn a pilot license. 1936
