Women that have changed history by being strong and brave, regardless of society’s expectations for them.
1
Margaret Hamilton, lead software engineer of the Apollo Project, stands next to the code she wrote by hand and that was used to take humanity to the moon. [1969]
2
Komako Kimura, a prominent Japanese suffragist at a march in New York. [October 23, 1917]
3
106-year old Armenian woman protecting her home with an AK-47. [1990]
4
Female snipers of the Soviet 3rd Shock Army. [May 4, 1945]
5
A mason high above Berlin. [c. 1900]
6
A Lockheed employee working on a P-38 Lightning [Burbank, California, 1944]
7
A mother shows a picture of her son to returning prisoners of war in an attempt to find him. [Vienna, 1947]
8
Anna Fisher, "the first mother in space" [1980s]
9
Afghan women at a public library before the Taliban seized power. [c. 1950s]
10
Maud Wagner, the first well know female tattooist in the United States. [1907]
11
A mother plays with her child on the beach. [c. 1950s]
12
A captured Soviet soldier is given water by a Ukrainian woman after being captured. [1941]
13
Women boxing on a roof in LA. [1933]
14
A woman drinking tea in the aftermath of a German bombing raid during the London Blitz. [1940]
15
Ellen O’Neal, one of the first professional female skaters. [1976]
16
Erika, a 15-year-old Hungarian fighter who fought for freedom against the Soviet Union. [October 1956]
17
A Muslim woman covers the yellow star of her Jewish neighbour with her veil to protect her from prosecution. Sarajevo, former Yugoslavia. [1941]
18
Annette Kellerman posing in a swimsuit that got her arrested for indecency. [c. 1907]
19
American nurses land in Normandy. [1944]
20
Women's Liberation Coalition March, Detroit, Michigan. [1970]
21
The first women’s basketball team from Smith College [1902]
22
Women's league roller derby skaters in New York. [March 10, 1950]
23
Gertrude Ederle becomes the first woman to swim across the English Channel. [1926]
24
Photograph of a samurai warrior. [c. late 1800s]
25
18 year old French Résistance fighter, Simone Segouin, during the liberation of Paris. [19 August 1944]
26
Filipino guerilla, Captain Nieves Fernandez, shows a US soldier how she killed Japanese soldiers during the occupation. [1944]
27
Members of the Hell's Angels gang. [1973]
28
A woman suffrage activist protesting after 'The Night of Terror.' [1917]
29
Kathrine Switzer becomes the first woman to run the Boston Marathon, despite attempts by the marathon organizer to stop her. [1967]
30
Margaret Bourke-White, a photographer, climbing the Chrysler Building. [1934]
31
Girls deliver heavy blocks of ice after male workers were conscripted [1918]
32
Aviator Amelia Earhart after becoming the first woman to fly an aircraft across the Atlantic Ocean. [1928]
33
Elspeth Beard, during her attempt to become the first Englishwoman to circumnavigate the world by motorcycle. [1980s]
34
The iconic photo of a concerned pea-picker and mother of seven children during the Dust Bowl. [1936]
35
Some of the first women sworn into US Marine Corps. [August, 1918]
36
A Swedish woman hitting a neo-Nazi protester with her handbag. The woman was reportedly a concentration camp survivor. [1985]
37
A Los Angeles Police Officer looks after an abandoned baby in the drawer of her desk. [1971]
38
Two women show uncovered legs in public for the first time in Toronto. [1937]
39
Afghan women studying medicine. [1962]
40
Sabiha Gökçen of Turkey poses with her plane, in 1937 she became the first female fighter pilot.
41
A British sergeant training members of the ‘mum’s army’ Women's Home Defence Corps during the Battle of Britain. [1940]
42
Jeanne Manford marches with her gay son during a Pride Parade. [1972]
43
Marina Ginesta, a 17-year-old communist militant, overlooking Barcelona during the Spanish Civil War. [1936]
44
Winnie the Welder. [1943]
45
Female pilots leaving their B-17, "Pistol Packin' Mama" [c. 1941 - 1945]
46
Parisian mothers shield their children from German sniper fire. [1944]
47
Sarla Thakral, 21 years old, the first Indian woman to earn a pilot license. [1936]
48
Voting activist Annie Lumpkins at the Little Rock city jail. [1961]
49
A Red Cross nurse takes down the last words of a British soldier. [c. 1917]
50
A Dutch woman refuses to leave her husband, a German soldier, after Allied soldiers capture him. She followed him into captivity. [1944]
51
Volunteers learn how to fight fires at Pearl Harbor [c. 1941 - 1945]
52
Leola N. King, America's first female traffic cop, Washington D.C. [1918]
