celebrating the contributions of women International Women's Day (8 March) is a global day celebrating the economic, political and social achievements of women past, present and future. In some places like China, Russia, Vietnam and Bulgaria, International Women's Day is a national holiday.
Valentina Tereshkova from Russia became the first woman ever to fly into space back in 1963.
Jeannette Rankin, the first woman elected as a Member of Congress
Senator Barbara Mikulski, the first woman senator from Maryland the first woman Democrat to serve in both the House and Senate.
Shirley Chisholm, the first woman of African descent elected to Congress.
Did you know? In 1920, the 19 th Amendment was ratified, giving women the right to vote, however, the nineteenth amendment to the Constitution granting women the right to vote was passed by a margin of only one vote.
Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, the first woman to serve on the United States Supreme Court
Elizabeth Blackwell, the first woman to receive a medical degree in the United States.
Billie Jean King, former professional tennis player who won the first ever WTA Tour Championship and won The Battle of the Sexes tennis match against Bobby Riggs in 1973.
Amelia Earhart, the first woman to fly over the Atlantic Ocean in 1928
Susan B. Anthony was a prominent women's rights activist who fought for equal voting rights and was the first woman to be honored by having her likeness appear on a circulating United States coin.
Colonel Anna Mae Hays, became the first woman in the history of the U. S. Army to attain the rank of brigadier general.
Gertrude Ederle was the first woman to swim the English Channel.
Danica Sue Patrick, race car driver is the only woman to win a race in the Indy. Car Series and holds the highest finish by a woman at the Indianapolis 500.
Junko Tabei was the first woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest on May 16, 1975.
Antonia Coello Novello, M. D. , is a Puerto Rican physician and public health administrator. Novello is the first woman to serve as Surgeon General.
Forty-eight years before women won the right to vote, Victoria Woodhull was the first woman to run for president of the United States.
Oprah Winfrey was the youngest person and the first African-American woman to anchor the news and she was the first woman to own her own talk show.
Did you know? Even in 2013 women working full-time still on average earn less for every dollar that men earn according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Lilly Ledbetter was the plaintiff in the employment discrimination case Ledbetter v. Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. The Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009 amends the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
Nancy Pelosi served as the 60 th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives. She was the first woman to hold the office and to date, has been the highest-ranking female politician in American history.
Marie Curie was the first woman to receive the Nobel Prize and the first person to win it for two separate categories of science.
Benazir Bhutto was the first female prime minister of a Muslim country. She helped to move Pakistan from a dictatorship to democracy in 1977. She sought to implement social reforms, in particular helping women and the poor.
“The strength of a woman is not measured by the impact that all her hardships in life have had on her; but the strength of a woman is measured by the extent of her refusal to allow those hardships to dictate her and who she becomes. ” ― C. Joy. Bell C.
Madam C. J. Walker invented a line of African-American hair care products and was the first American woman to become a self-made millionaire.
J. K. Rowling is the author of the best selling Harry Potter series. She wrote the first book as a single mother, struggling to make ends meet. She is the first person to become a U. S. -dollar billionaire by writing books.
Florence Rena Sabin is the first woman to hold a full professorship at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, the first woman elected to the National Academy of Sciences, and the first woman to head a department at the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research.
Hillary Clinton served as first lady from 1993 to 2001, and then as a U. S. senator from 2001 to 2009. She was sworn in as secretary of state in January 2009 becoming the first woman to serve in a president's cabinet.
Did you know? An estimated one in every three women worldwide experiences violence, with rates reaching as high as 70 percent in some countries.
Malala Yousafzai a 14 year old Pakistani girl was nearly killed by the Taliban for supporting education for girls. Malala was shot in the head simply because as a girl she wanted to go to school.
Sonali Mukherjee was just 17 when she was attacked by a spurned suitor and his friends that broke into her home and poured acid on her as she slept. She is partially blind and deaf as a result of her injuries.
Malalai Kakar, was Afghanistans first female police officer. Taliban gunmen shot her dead as she left home to go to work. Malalai was the head of Kandahar's dept. of crimes against women.
Laci Peterson was an American woman who went missing while seven and a half months pregnant with her first child. Her husband, Scott Peterson, was later convicted of murder.
Noor Faleh Almaleki, a 20 year old Iraqi woman living in of Peoria, Arizona was run over by her own father for becoming “too westernized. ” She had spinal surgery and was in a coma for nearly two weeks before she finally succumbed to her horrific injuries.
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