These women have changed history forever by being strong, brave, and human, regardless of society’s expectations for them.
A Muslim woman covers the
yellow star of her Jewish neighbour with her veil to protect her from
prosecution. Sarajevo, former Yugoslavia. [1941]
Maud Wagner, the first
well know female tattooist in the United States. [1907]
18 year old French
Résistance fighter, Simone Segouin, during the liberation of Paris. [19 August
1944]
Sarla Thakral, 21 years
old, the first Indian woman to earn a pilot license. [1936]
Kathrine Switzer becomes
the first woman to run the Boston Marathon, despite attempts by the marathon
organizer to stop her. [1967]
Afghan women at a public
library before the Taliban seized power. [c. 1950s]
Annette Kellerman posing
in a swimsuit that got her arrested for indecency. [c. 1907]
The first women’s
basketball team from Smith College [1902]
Photograph of a samurai
warrior. [c. late 1800s]
106-year old Armenian
woman protecting her home with an AK-47. [1990]
Women boxing on a roof in
LA. [1933]
A Swedish woman hitting a
neo-Nazi protester with her handbag. The woman was reportedly a concentration
camp survivor. [1985]
Women's league roller
derby skaters in New York. [March 10, 1950]
Voting activist Annie
Lumpkins at the Little Rock city jail. [1961]
Members of the Hell's
Angels gang. [1973]
Girls deliver heavy
blocks of ice after male workers were conscripted [1918]
Komako Kimura, a
prominent Japanese suffragist at a march in New York. [October 23, 1917]
Marina Ginesta, a
17-year-old communist militant, overlooking Barcelona during the Spanish Civil
War. [1936]
Anna Fisher, "the
first mother in space" [1980s]
A woman suffrage activist
protesting after "The Night of Terror." [1917]
33 suffrage activists had been arrested for ‘obstructing traffic’ and
were badly beaten by prison guards.
Margaret Bourke-White, a
photographer, climbing the Chrysler Building. [1934]
A mother plays with her
child on the beach. [c. 1950s]
Elspeth Beard, during her
attempt to become the first Englishwoman to circumnavigate the world by
motorcycle. [1980s]
The journey took 3
years and covered 48,000 miles.
Two women show uncovered
legs in public for the first time in Toronto. [1937]
A woman drinking tea in
the aftermath of a German bombing raid during the London Blitz. [1940]
Winnie the Welder. [1943]
Winnie was one of 2,000 women who worked
in US shipyards during World War II.
Jeanne Manford marches
with her gay son during a Pride Parade. [1972]
Jeanne went on to found the rights group "Parents, Families and
Friends of Lesbians and Gays".
Sabiha Gökçen of Turkey
poses with her plane, in 1937 she became the first female fighter pilot.
Volunteers learn how to
fight fires at Pearl Harbor [c. 1941 - 1945]
A captured Soviet soldier
is given water by a Ukrainian woman after being captured. [1941]
A mason high above
Berlin. [c. 1900]
Railroad workers at
lunch. Many were the wives and even mothers of the men who left for war. [1943]
Some of the first women
sworn into US Marine Corps. [August, 1918]
Ellen O’Neal, one of the
first professional female skaters. [1976]
Parisian mothers shield
their children from German sniper fire. [1944]
Filipino guerilla,
Captain Nieves Fernandez, shows a US soldier how she killed Japanese soldiers
during the occupation. [1944]
A Dutch woman refuses to
leave her husband, a German soldier, after Allied soldiers capture him. She
followed him into captivity. [1944]
Gertrude Ederle becomes
the first woman to swim across the English Channel. [1926]
Aviator Amelia Earhart
after becoming the first woman to fly an aircraft across the Atlantic Ocean.
[1928]
Afghan women studying
medicine. [1962]
A British sergeant
training members of the ‘mum’s army’ Women's Home Defence Corps during the
Battle of Britain. [1940]
The iconic photo of a
concerned pea-picker and mother of seven children during the Dust Bowl. [1936]
Women's Liberation
Coalition March, Detroit, Michigan. [1970]
A Los Angeles Police
Officer looks after an abandoned baby in the drawer of her desk. [1971]
Female snipers of the
Soviet 3rd Shock Army. [May 4, 1945]
A mother shows a picture
of her son to returning prisoners of war in an attempt to find him. [Vienna,
1947]
Leola N. King, America's
first female traffic cop, Washington D.C. [1918]
Erika, a 15-year-old
Hungarian fighter who fought for freedom against the Soviet Union. [October
1956]
American nurses land in
Normandy. [1944]
A Lockheed employee
working on a P-38 Lightning [Burbank, California, 1944]
A Red Cross nurse takes
down the last words of a British soldier. [c. 1917]
Female pilots leaving
their B-17, "Pistol Packin' Mama" [c. 1941 - 1945]
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