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163 Badass Women Who Changed The World We Live In Today
March 8 is International Women's Day (US has its equivalent on the 26th of August) which celebrates the struggle for women's rights. Throughout history, many strong women had to rise against the odds and fight for their dreams and passions, equality and solidarity among men. Their bravery contributed to shaping today's world, and has to be remembered.
Bored Panda has made a list of badass women who did their part to make the world a better place. Scroll down to vote for your favorite heroes, and upload new ones if we missed them!
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#1
Irena Sendlerowa - Woman Who Smuggled Approximately 2,500 Jewish Children Out Of The Warsaw Ghett
Final score:
614points
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#2
Malala Yousafzai, 19, Pakistani Activist For Female Education Who Survived Being Shot In The Head By The Taliban, The Youngest Ever Nobel Prize Laureate
Final score:
604points
#3
A Woman Hitting A Neo-Nazi With Her Handbag In Växjö, Sweden (13 April, 1985)
#4
Marie Curie Was A Polish Scientist Famous For Her Work On Radioactivity, The First Woman To Win A Nobel Prize And The Only Woman To Win Twice
Amanda Panda 7 years ago
What makes her badass is, she was the first EVER woman to win a Nobel Prize, and the ONLY woman (to date) to win TWO nobel prizes
Kamila Golnik 7 years ago
Not only woman, but only HUMAN who ever got two Nobel prizes in two different categories :)
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Katarina Sujono 7 years ago
Her daughter also won a nobel prize for discovering artificial radioactivity, both of them died of cancer due to their studies
Nick Triantafyllidis 6 years ago
Marie didn't die of cancer but of aplastic anemia. Of course it was due to radiation exposure as you said.
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Marta Chmielowiec 7 years ago
Except her name is MARIA SKŁODOWSKA. She just happened to marry a Frenchie by the name of Curie. But she kept using her Polish surname. It's a bitter irony that she's remembered as Curie, as many not-overly-educted persons think she was French. By the way, same with Szopen (another Pole you know as Monsieur Chopin) and Kopernik (Copernicus), etc. etc.
Lúthien Sîrfalas 7 years ago
She also keept doin the research even tho she knows it was bad for her health!
Adrian Obermeler 7 years ago
There is a new polish movie comingabout her - http://www.filmweb.pl/film/Maria+Sk%C5%82odowska-Curie-2016-739462
Olivia Ricker 7 years ago
and who knows how much more she accomplished but will never get credit for because a man took the credit instead.
Lúthien Sîrfalas 7 years ago
PLEASE CHANGE HER SURNAME INTO SKŁODOWSKA- CURIE SHE IS NOT CURIE , THAT'S HER HUSBAND NAME ...OMG...BUZZFEED C'MONE
Harini Knight 7 years ago
History of Science and Medicine - science was such a boys club around that time so it was also showing them that women could contribute and use their brains as well as the men, she's one of those that pioneered way for women in workforce
Cheryl Birkhimer 7 years ago
Wonderful achievements, oh to have a brain like hers! Too bad the Nobel prize has been devaluated now.
Cheryl Birkhimer 7 years ago
Brilliant badass! Too bad the Nobel prize is no longer as prestigious as it once was. They have much lower standards these days.
Susanna Vesna 7 years ago
Can you imagine the barriers men of her time were setting for her and all that pressure they would put her through just to bring her down? Amazing
Sick Boy 7 years ago
About the only one in the list that truly fits the "changed the world" bit in the title.
Monika Sz 7 years ago
She was 100% Polish, born and raised in Warsaw. Her husband was French. Her name is Maria SKŁODOWSKA Curie.
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#5
Nujood Ali, Given To Abusive Husband At Age 10, Divorced Him And Broke Tribal Tradition
Final score:
516points
#6
A 106-Year-Old Woman Who Protected Her Home With A Rifle, In Armenia (1990)
#8
Margaret Heafield Was A Director Of Software Engineering For NASA's Apollo Space Program (1969)
#9
Muslim Woman Covers The Yellow Star Of Her Jewish Neighbor With Her Veil (1941)
#10
Voting Activist Annie Lumpkins At The Little Rock City Jail (10 July, 1961)
#11
One Of The Onna-Bugeisha, Female Samurai Warrior Of The Upper Bushi (Samurai), Class In Feudal Japan (Late 1800's)
#12
Jane Goodall, Leading Primatologist And Conservationalist
Final score:
353points
#13
Maud Stevens Wagner Was The First Known Female Tattoo Artist In The United States (1907)
#15
Amelia Earhart Was The First Female Aviator To Fly Solo Across The Atlantic Ocean (1928)
#16
Rosa Louise Mccauley Parks - Civil Rights Activist
Final score:
308points
#17
Russia-Born Valentina Tereshkova Became The First Woman In Space Aboard The Vostok 6 (1963)
#19
Eliza Leonida Zamfirescu, The First Woman Engineer In The World
Final score:
278points
#20
Annette Kellerman Promoted Women’s Right To Wear A Fitted One-Piece Bathing Suit (1907). She Was Arrested For Indecency
#21
Florence Nightingale - 1st Nurse To Teach Basic Sanitation Between Patients
Final score:
235points
#22
Ftima El Fihria The Founder Of The First University In The World - Fes, Morocco
Final score:
234points
#23
Nadia Comaneci - The First Women To Score A Perfect 10 In Gymnastics At The Olympic Games
Final score:
216points
#24
Women Of The 1975 Icelandic Women's Strike, Kvennafrídagurinn, When 90% Of The Female Population Of Iceland Went On Strike To “demonstrate The Indispensable Work Of Women For Iceland’s Economy And Society”
Final score:
209points
#25
Komako Kimura, A Prominent Japanese Suffragist Marched On Fifth Avenue In New York City Demanding The Right To Vote (27 October, 1917)
#26
Marina Ginestà Was A French Veteran Of The Spanish Civil War. This Is Her Most Famous Picture At The Top Of Hotel Colón In Barcelona (21 July, 1936)
#27
Harriet Tubman, Who Helped Slaves Escape Via The Underground Railroad.
Final score:
200points
#28
Yusra Mardini Syrian Teenage Refugee Who Swam For Hours In The Sea Pushing A Sinking Boat With Other Refugees To Safety
Final score:
200points
#29
Ana Aslan (Romania) - She Is Considered To Be A Pioneer Of Gerontology And Geriatrics
Final score:
194points
#30
Taramon Bibi Is One Of The Two Female Freedom Fighters In Bangladesh
Final score:
179points
#31
Mileva Maric, Serbian Physicist, Einsteins Wife. Worthy "His" Nobel Prize
Final score:
159points
#32
Ellen O'neal, One Of The Greatests Female Freestyle Skateboarders In The World (1970)
#33
Coretta Scott King. American Author, Activist, Civil Rights Leader, And The Wife Of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Final score:
150points
#34
Smaranda Brăescu, Romanian parachuting Pioneer, Former Multiple World Record Holder (1932)
Final score:
148points
#35
Shirley Anita St. Hill Chisholm. American Politician, Educator, And Author. In 1968, She Became The First African American Woman Elected To The United States Congress. She Served 7 Terms And Ran For The Democratic Party Nomination For Potus In 1972.
Final score:
146points
#37
Angela Davis (1944), American Political Activist, Scholar, Author & Feminist
Final score:
137points
#38
Rita Levi-Montalcini - Italian Nobel Laureate Honoured For Her Work In Neurobiology
Final score:
135points
#39
Bertha Von Suttner - First Woman Peace Activist And First Woman To Be Awarded Nobel Peace Prize
Final score:
134points
#40
Jeanne Manford With Her Son Morty, Foreground, Marching In The New York City Gay Pride Parade (1972)
#41
Sarla Thakral Was First Indian Woman To Fly. She Earned An Aviation Pilot License In 1936 At The Age Of 21 And Flew A Gypsy Moth Solo
#42
Billie Jean King. US Tennis Legend & Became The First Prominent Female Athlete To Come Out
Final score:
124points
#43
Girls Deliver Ice. Heavy Work That Formerly Belonged To Men Only Is Being Done By Girls (16 September, 1918)
#45
A Woman Drinking Tea, In The Aftermath Of A German Bombing Raid During The London Blitz (1940)
#46
Suu Kyi Was Under House Arrest For 15 Years For Her Pre-Democracy Campaigning
Final score:
112points
#47
Simone De Beauvoir, French Feminist, Who Wrote "The Manifesto Of The 343", 1971
Final score:
101points
#48
These Four Female Pilots Leaving Their Plane At The Four-Engine School At Lockbourne AAF (Early 1940s)
#50
Lili Elbe, Danish Transgender Woman And One Of The First Recipients Of Sex Reassignment Surgery (1882 – 1931). Elbe Is The Subject Of The 2015 Film "the Danish Girl".
Final score:
89points
#51
Joan Of Arc, Nicknamed "the Maid Of Orléans," Was Born In 1412 In Domrémy, Bar, France. A National Heroine Of France, At Age 18 She Led The French Army To Victory Over The English At Orléans. Captured A Year Later, Joan Was Burned At The Stake As A Heretic By The English And Their French Collaborators
Final score:
88points
#52
Maria Teresa De Filippis, First Female Formula 1 Driver (1958)
Final score:
83points
#53
The First European Woman Ever To Obtain A License And A Phd In Law From The University Of Paris
Final score:
81points
#54
Jackie Ormes, America's First Black Female Cartoonist, And Creator Of Torchy Brown
Final score:
80points
#55
Jane Austen: An Influential Woman, She’s Not Just A Writer, She’s A Cult, A Brand And A Cultural Touchstone.
Final score:
76points
#57
Among The Prisoners Taken On Walcheren Was This Dutch Woman With Her Husband, A German Solder, Whom She Refused To Leave (1944)
#58
Anna Stepanovna Politkovskaya - A Russian Journalist, Writer, And Human Rights Activist Known For Her Opposition To The Second Chechen War And To The Policies Of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Final score:
64points
#59
Raina Kasabova Is A Bulgarian Military Pilot And The First Woman In The World Who Piloted A Battle Air Plane In A Combat.
Final score:
62points
#62
The Night Witches - Female Soviet Pilots Of Ww2
Final score:
58points
#63
Soviet Soldier Is Given Water By A Ukrainian Woman After Being Captured During The Battle For Kiev (1941)
#64
Leola N. King, America's First Female Traffic Cop, Washington D.C. (1918)
#65
Fanny Blankers Koen, Winner Of 4 Gold Medals At The 1948 London Olympics, Aged 30 And Mother Of 2 Children.
Final score:
53points
#66
This Woman Worker Pushes Back Her Helmet During A Moment's Pause From Her Welding Job At The Richmond Shipyard In California (1943)
#67
Elizabeth Blackwell Was A British-born Physician, Notable As The First Woman To Receive A Medical Degree.
Final score:
51points
#68
Erika Kornélia Szeles, The 15 Years Old Revolutionary Against The Soviets In Budapest, Hungary 1956
Final score:
51points
#69
Ada Lovelace. World's First Computer Programmer.
Final score:
50points
#71
Ceylan Ozalp, 19, Was Reportedly Surrounded By Isis Fighters Near The Syrian Kurdish City Of Kobane Also Known As Ain Al-arab. After She Run Out Of Ammunition Ozalp Said “goodbye” Over The Radio And Spent Her Last Bullet On Killing Herself.
Final score:
48points
#72
Smith College Class Of 1902 Basketball Team - Senda Berenson Introduced And Adapted The Rules For Women's Basketball
#73
Isidora Sekulić, The First Woman Academic In Serbian History
Final score:
47points
#74
Clara Campoamor (madrid, 12 February, 1888–lausanne, 30 April, 1972) Was A Spanish Politician And Feminist Best Known For Her Advocacy For Women's Rights And Suffrage During The Writing Of The Spanish Constitution Of 1931.
Final score:
47points
#76
Vesna Vulović Was A Serbian Flight Attendant. She Holds The Guinness World Record For Surviving The Highest Fall Without A Parachute: 10,160 Metres, After The Explosion Of Jat Flight 367 Near Srbská Kamenice, Czechoslovakia, On 26 January 1972.
Final score:
45points
#77
Liudmyla Mykhailivna Pavlychenko - "lady Death" - Soviet Sniper Ww2
Final score:
45points
#78
Siouxsie Sioux Proved Women Can Rock! She Started In 70s Punk Movement And Her Influence Is Still Evident Today.
Final score:
43points
#79
Julia Morgan (1872-1957) -- Architect Famous For The Hearst Castle. The First Woman Admitted To Paris' L'École Nationale Supérieure Des Beaux-arts For Architecture And The First Female Licensed Architect In California.
Final score:
40points
#80
Maryam Mirzakhani, An Iranian Professor Of Mathematics At Stanford And The Only Woman To Win Fields Medal, Regarded As The "nobel Prize Of Mathematics"
Final score:
40points
#81
Norwegian Suffragist And Photographer Marie Høeg Played With Gender Roles In The Studio
Final score:
38points
#82
The Badass Georgian Golden Age Queen Who Was Kingtamar Of Georgia, Who Ruled From 1184 To 1213—the Peak Of Georgia’s Golden Age
Final score:
37points
#83
The Radium Girls Were Female Factory Workers Who Contracted Radiation Poisoning From Painting Watch Dials With Self-luminous Paint At The United States Radium Factory In Orange, New Jersey, Around 1917. The Women Had Been Told The Paint Was Harmless. Five Of The Women Challenged Their Employer In A Case That Established The Right Of Individual Workers Who Contract Occupational Diseases To Sue Their Employers.
Final score:
37points
#84
Cecilia Payne-gaposchkin (1900-1979) Astrophysicist Who Explained The Composition Of Stars. .
Final score:
37points
#85
Emily Dickinson - A Prolific Private Poet, Fewer Than A Dozen Of Her Nearly 1,800 Poems Were Published During Her Lifetime
Final score:
36points
#86
Dalia Grybauskaitė - Dalia Grybauskaitė Is The President Of Lithuania, Inaugurated On 12 July 2009 And Re-elected In May 2014. She Is The Country's First Female President And The First President Of Lithuania To Be Reelected For A Second Consecutive Term.
Final score:
34points
#87
Dr. Ewa Klonowski - A Forensic Anthropologist Responsible For The Excavation And Identification Of Over 2,000 Victims In Bosnia
Final score:
34points
#88
Maria Montessori An Italian Physician And Educators Known For Philosophy The Montessori Method Which Is Used By Parents And Schools Worldwide.
Final score:
33points
#89
Djamila Bouhired Is An Algerian Militant. Bouhired Is A Nationalist Who Opposed The French Colonial Rule Of Algeria.
Final score:
31points
#90
Camille Claudel - A French Sculptor And Graphic Artist.
Final score:
30points
#91
Constance Markievicz - Constance Georgine Markievicz, Known As Countess Markievicz Was An Irish Politician, Revolutionary Nationalist, Suffragette And Socialist. In December 1918, She Was The First Woman Elected To The British House Of Commons, Though She Did Not Take Her Seat.. She Was Also The Second Woman To Hold A Cabinet Position In The World.
Final score:
30points
#93
Vera Obolenskaya - A Russian Duchess And Heroine Of The French Resistance, She First Worked As A Model And As A Secretary. Vera Was An Intelligence Officer And A Spy, Organizing The Escapes Of British War Prisoners Over The Border.
Final score:
29points
#94
Blanca Canales Was An Educator And A Puerto Rican Nationalist. Canales Joined The Puerto Rican Nationalist Party In 1931 And Helped Organize The Daughters Of Freedom, The Women's Branch Of The Puerto Rican Nationalist Party. Born: February 17, 1906, Jayuya Died: July 25, 1996, Jayuya Political Party: Puerto Rican Nationalist Party
Final score:
28points
#95
Karrie Keyes Has Been With Pearl Jam For 25 Years. Her Career Dates Back To When, As A Punk-loving Teenager At A Black Flag Show, She Met A Sound Engineer Who Offered Her A Job.
Final score:
28points
#96
Elena Lucrezia Cornaro Piscopia, First Woman To Receive An Academic Degree From A University (1678)
Final score:
27points
#97
Golda Meir, 4th Prime Minister Of Israel
Final score:
26points
#98
Frida Kahlo De Rivera (spanish Pronunciation: [ˈfɾiða ˈkalo]; July 6, 1907 – July 13, 1954), Born Magdalena Carmen Frida Kahlo Y Calderón, Was A Mexican Painter Known For Her Self-portraits.[2] Kahlo's Life Began And Ended In Mexico City, In Her Home, Which Is Known As "la Casa Azul," The Blue House. Her Work Has Been Celebrated Internationally As Emblematic Of Mexican National And Indigenous Traditions, And By Feminists For Its Uncompromising Depiction Of The Female Experience And Form.[3]
![Frida Kahlo De Rivera (spanish Pronunciation: [ˈfɾiða ˈkalo]; July 6, 1907 – July 13, 1954), Born Magdalena Carmen Frida Kahlo Y Calderón, Was A Mexican Painter Known For Her Self-portraits.[2] Kahlo's Life Began And Ended In Mexico City, In Her Home, Which Is Known As "la Casa Azul," The Blue House. Her Work Has Been Celebrated Internationally As Emblematic Of Mexican National And Indigenous Traditions, And By Feminists For Its Uncompromising Depiction Of The Female Experience And Form.[3]](https://static.boredpanda.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Frida-Kahlo-Painting-1-1024x576-58c0d32c4ecdb__700.jpg "Frida Kahlo De Rivera (spanish Pronunciation: [ˈfɾiða ˈkalo]; July 6, 1907 – July 13, 1954), Born Magdalena Carmen Frida Kahlo Y Calderón, Was A Mexican Painter Known For Her Self-portraits.[2] Kahlo's Life Began And Ended In Mexico City, In Her Home, Which Is Known As \"la Casa Azul,\" The Blue House. Her Work Has Been Celebrated Internationally As Emblematic Of Mexican National And Indigenous Traditions, And By Feminists For Its Uncompromising Depiction Of The Female Experience And Form.[3]")
Final score:
26points
#99
Eileen Gray - An Irish Architect And Furniture Designer And A Pioneer Of The Modern Movement In Architecture.
Final score:
25points
#100
Sofia Vasilyevna Kovalevskaya 1850-1891 - A Russian Mathematician Responsible For Some Important Original Contributions To Analysis, Partial Differential Equations And Mechanics
Final score:
24points
#101
Wendy Carlos. This Talented Transgender Composer Was One Of The Pioneers Of Early Synthesized Music. She Was Responsible For Iconic Themes From "a Clockwork Orange" And "tron".
Final score:
24points
#102
Jane Bridge: First British Gold Medal For World Championship Judo (male And Female), 3 X European Gold Medals In Judo
Final score:
23points
#103
Rachel Louise Carson (may 27, 1907 – April 14, 1964) Was An American Marine Biologist And Conservationist Whose Book Silent Spring And Other Writings Are Credited With Advancing The Global Environmental Movement.
Final score:
23points
#104
Neerja Bhanot, Awarded Ashok Chakra (india), Tamgha-e-insaaniyat (pakistan), Flight Safety Foundation Heroism Award (united States) And Justice For Crimes Award, United States Attorney’s Office For The District Of Columbia (united States) For Saving 359 Out Of 379 Passengers Aboard Pan Am Flight 73 Where She Was Working As A Head Purser And Was Shot To Death When The Flight Was Hijacked At Karachi. She Was Only 22
Final score:
23points
#106
Juana Inés De La Cruz. Was A 17th Century Nun, Self-taught Scholar And Acclaimed Writer Of The Latin American Colonial Period And The Hispanic Baroque. She Was Also A Staunch Advocate For Women's Rights.
Final score:
22points
#107
Vivian Maier - An American Street Photographer, Took More Than 150, 000 Pictures
Final score:
21points
#108
Black Monday- Thousands Of Polish Women Strike Against Abortion - Ban (2016!)
Final score:
19points
#109
Helen Fabela Chávez Was An American Labor Activist For The United Farm Workers Of America
Final score:
18points
#111
Corrie Ten Boom, Helped Many Jews Escape The Holocaust. Arrested And Imprisoned. Writer And Inspirational Speaker.
Final score:
18points
#112
Bessie Stringfield- The First Jamaican-american Woman To Ride A Motorcycle Solo Across The U.s. (1930) And One Of The Few Civilian Couriers For The Military In Wwii.
Final score:
17points
#113
Vigdís Finnbogadóttir. She Was Both Iceland's And Europe's First Female President, And The World's First Democratically Directly Elected Female President.
Final score:
17points
#114
In 1956 20,000 Women Marched To The Union Buildings In South Africa To Protest The Pass Laws Under The Apartheid Government . "wathint' Abafazi, Wathint' Imbokodo: You Strike A Woman You Strike A Rock".
Final score:
16points
#117
Laxmibai: The Queen Of Jhansi, India Fought Bravely Against The British East India Company. She Lost Her Life During Conflict. She Stands As A Symbol Of Strength And Bravery Among 1 Billion Indians.
Final score:
15points
#118
Leymah Roberta Gbowee (born 1 February 1972) Is A Liberian Peace Activist Responsible For Leading A Women's Peace Movement, Women Of Liberia Mass Action For Peace That Helped Bring An End To The Second Liberian Civil War In 2003. She Received The 2011 Nobel Peace Prize.
Final score:
14points
#119
Kate Bush (1958). First English Female Artist To Achieve A Uk Number-one With A Self-written Song, With "wuthering Heights." 40ish Years And 12 Records Later, She Is Still One Of The Most Influential Woman In British Pop Music.
Final score:
14points
#120
Two Women’s League Roller Derby Skaters Leap Over Two Who Have Fallen (1950)
#121
Julia Butterfly Hill, Environmental Activist Who Lived In A 180 Foot Redwood Tree For 738 Days To Protest Deforestation
Final score:
13points
#122
Chiquinha Gonzaga Was The First Woman Conductor In Brazil, The First Pianist "choro" And The Author Of The First Carnival March In Xix Century. She Found The Brazilian Society Of Authors To Protect The Copy Rights Of Artists In Brazil. She Was Also Abolitionist And Feminist Who Had A Very Outstanding Life. Chiquinha Gonzaga Lived Further Ahead Of Her Time.
Final score:
12points
#123
Nadia Boulanger (1887-1979). French Composer And Conductor.
Final score:
10points
#124
Ševala Zildžić - Iblizović - First Muslim Female Doctor In Bosnia And Herzegovina
Final score:
10points
#125
Maria Odette Ferreira, Portuguese Scientist, Pharmacy Scholar At The Pharmaceutical College Of Lisbon And First Woman To Isolate The Hiv Type 2
Final score:
10points
#126
The Mothers Of The Plaza De Mayo. The Association Of Argentine Mothers Whose Children Were "disappeared" During The State Terrorism Of The Military Dictatorship, Between 1976 And 1983.
Final score:
10points
#127
Roshni: Youngest C E O Of H C L Corp, At The Age Of 31.
Final score:
9points
#128
Jovita Idar, (1885–1946, Teacher, Journalist, And Political Activist, Served As A Writer For Her Father's Weekly Newspaper Which, In 1911, Called The First Mexican Congress To Discuss Educational, Social, Labor, And Economic Matters. Women Participated As Speakers And Participants In The First Attempt In Mexican-american History To Organize A Militant Feminist Social Movement. Jovita Became Its First President And Organized Its Principal Effort, To Provide Education For Poor Children. In 1913, During The Mexican Revolution Battles Of Nuevo Laredo, Jovita And A Friend, Leonor Villegas De Magnon, Crossed The Border To Care For The Injured, Forming La Cruz Blanca, A Medical Group Similar To The Red Cross, And Traveled In Northern Mexico With Revolutionary Forces As Nurses.
Final score:
9points
#130
Shikha Sharma: Ceo & Md Of Axis Bank, Worth $78 Billion Dollar. Ignores Corporate Glass Ceiling.
Final score:
7points
#132
Maria De Lourdes Pintasilgo (1930-2004), Portuguese Politician, Was The First And Until Now Only Woman To Be Prime-minister Of Portugal Between July 1979 And January 1980.
Final score:
7points
#133
Neerja Bhanot, (7 September 1963 – 5 September 1986),was A Purser For The Airline Pan American World Airways, Based In Mumbai, India. She Was Shot And Killed While Saving Hundreds Of Passengers On Board Pan Am Flight 73, Which Was Hijacked By Terrorists On 5 September 1986. Posthumously, She Became The Youngest Recipient Of India's Highest Peacetime Award For Bravery, The Ashok Chakra Award. She Saved 359 People Among 379 And Was Shot While Helping Passengers Escape From The Emergency Exits.
Final score:
6points
#134
Sophie Scholl,sophia Magdalena Scholl (9 May 1921 – 22 February 1943) Was A German Student And Anti-nazi Political Activist, Active Within The White Rose Non-violent Resistance Group In Nazi Germany.[1][2]
![Sophie Scholl,sophia Magdalena Scholl (9 May 1921 – 22 February 1943) Was A German Student And Anti-nazi Political Activist, Active Within The White Rose Non-violent Resistance Group In Nazi Germany.[1][2]](https://static.boredpanda.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Sophie-Scholl-Privatarchiv-von-Elisabeth-Hartnagel-Aufnahme-von-ca-1941_148732659160039_v0_h-58c28dfd3e97e__700.jpg "Sophie Scholl,sophia Magdalena Scholl (9 May 1921 – 22 February 1943) Was A German Student And Anti-nazi Political Activist, Active Within The White Rose Non-violent Resistance Group In Nazi Germany.[1][2]")
Final score:
6points
#135
Rosa Mota, Portuguese Former Marathon Runner, Suffered From Asthma But Became World And Olympic Champion Of The Marathon (gold Medals In 1987 And 1988).
Final score:
5points
#136
Chitra Ramkrishna: Ceo And Md Of National Stock Exchange Of India. She Was The First To Touch The Glass Ceiling As A Woman.
Final score:
4points
#137
Fadumo Dayib, 1st Woman To Run For Somalian President: Refugee In Finland, Learned To Read At 14, Got Degrees In Finland And Harvard.
Final score:
4points
#138
Elvira Fortunato, Portuguese Scientist And Professor, Leader Of The Team Of Investigators Who Invented The Paper Transistor.
Final score:
4points
#139
Maria José Pereira, Portuguese Scientist At Gekco (paris, France), Is Developing A "surgical Glue" To Prevent Blood Losses. She Has Been Praised By The Mit Technology Review.
Final score:
4points
#140
Chanda Kochhar: M D And C E O Of Icici Bank, Worth $110 Billion.
Final score:
3points
#141
Rachel Fuller Brown And Elizabeth Lee Hazen, Who Discovered And Developed The First Anti-fungal Drug In 1950
Final score:
3points
#142
Krystyna Skarbek,(1 May 1908 – 15 June 1952), Also Known As Christine Granville, Was A Polish Agent Of The British Special Operations Executive (soe) During The Second World War. She Became Celebrated Especially For Her Daring Exploits In Intelligence And Irregular-warfare Missions In Nazi- Occupied Poland And France. She Became A British Agent Months Before The Soe Was Founded In July 1940 And Was One Of The Longest-serving Of All Britain's Wartime Women Agents. Her Resourcefulness And Success Have Been Credited With Influencing The Organisation's Policy Of Recruiting Increasing Numbers Of Women. In 1941 She Began Using The Nom De Guerre Christine Granville, A Name Which She Legally Adopted Upon Naturalisation As A British Subject In December 1946.
Final score:
2points
#143
Eliška Junková (16 November 1900 – 5 January 1994), Born Alžběta Pospíšilová And Also Known As Elizabeth Junek, Was A Czechoslovakian Automobile Racer. She Is Regarded As One Of The Greatest Female Drivers In Grand Prix Motor Racing History.
Final score:
2points
#145
Kathrine Switzer Was The First Woman To Run The Boston Marathon (1967). When Organizer Jock Semple Realised A Woman Was Running He Tried To Tackle Her
#147
Anna Honzáková (16 November 1875 – 13 October 1940) Was The First Female Doctor To Graduate From The Charles-ferdinand University In Prague, Which She Did On March 17, 1902
Final score:
1point
#148
Paula Rego, Portuguese Painter And Dame Of The British Empire, Is The First Portuguese Artist With A Work On The Permanent Exhibition At The National Gallery Of London. She Prefers Pastels Over Oil And Her Paitings Display Themes Of Feminism And Traditions Of Portugal. She Has A Museum In Honor Of Her Work: Casa Das Histórias Paula Rego.
Final score:
1point
#149
Guilhermina Augusta Suggia (1851-1932), Portuguese Cellist, One Of The First Female Professional Players Of The Cello (when Such Art Was Considered "innapropriate" For A Lady). Studied In Germany And Was A Pupil Of Famous Cellist Pablo Casals. Played With The Royal Philharmonic Society, The State Simphony Orchestra, The Bbc Symphony Orchestra, The London Symphony Orchestra.
Final score:
1point
#150
Eliška Junková (16 November 1900 – 5 January 1994), Born Alžběta Pospíšilová And Also Known As Elizabeth Junek, Was A Czechoslovakian Automobile Racer. She Is Regarded As One Of The Greatest Female Drivers In Grand Prix Motor Racing History.
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Stormé Delarverie, Early Leader In The Gay Rights Movement. Stormé Delarverie Was A Butch Lesbian Whose Purported Scuffle With Police Was One Of The Defining Moments Of The Stonewall Riots, Spurring The Crowd To Action.
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Sylvia Rae Rivera (july 2, 1951 – February 19, 2002) Was An American Gay Liberation And Transgender Activist And Drag Queen. She Was A Founding Member Of Both The Gay Liberation Front And The Gay Activists Alliance. With Her Close Friend Marsha P. Johnson, Rivera Co-founded The Street Transvestite/transgender Action Revolutionaries (star), A Group Dedicated To Helping Homeless Young Drag Queens And Trans Women Of Color.
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Marsha P. Johnson (august 24, 1945 – July 6, 1992) Was An American Drag Queen, Sex Worker, And Gay Liberation Activist. A Veteran Of The Stonewall Riots, Johnson Was Born In Elizabeth, New Jersey, And Was A Popular Figure In New York City's Gay And Art Scene From The 1960s To The 1990s. Later In Life Johnson Became An Aids Activist With Act Up.
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Whang-od Oggay Born 17 February 1917 (age 100) Is A Filipina Tattoo Artist From Buscalan, Tinglayan, Kalinga, Philippines. She Is Considered As The Last Mambabatok (traditional Kalinga Tattooist) From The Butbut People In Buscalan Kalinga And The Oldest Tattoo Artist In The Philippines. This Ancient Technique Of Tattoing Is Called Batok That Dates Back A Thousand Years Before Her Time Is Relatively Painful Compared To Other Conventional Techniques. Due To Her Status As The Last Mambabatok, Many Netizens Are Lobbying Her To Be One Of The National Artists Of The Philippines. Instead Of National Artist, Senator Miriam Defensor Santiago Urged Her Colleagues In The Philippine Senate Through A Resolution That Whang-od Should Be Nominated As One Of The National Living Treasures Or Gawad Sa Manlilikha Ng Bayan, Which Is Equal Rank To National Artist.
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Maria Corazon "cory" Aquino (january 25, 1933 – August 1, 2009), Popularly Known As Cory Aquino, Was A Filipina Politician Who Was The 11th President Of The Philippines, The First Woman To Hold That Office And The First Female President In Asia. Aquino Was The Most Prominent Figure Of The 1986 People Power Revolution, Which Toppled The 21-year Authoritarian Rule Of President Ferdinand E. Marcos And Restored Democracy To The Philippines. She Was Named Time Magazine's "woman Of The Year" In 1986.
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Winnie Mandela - South African Activist And Politician
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NurulAqilah Viktor 7 years ago
Just wanna say that despite of the fact that some Muslim countries are now infamous with how they treat women, back then during the times of prophet Muhammad both women and men did receive educational teaching..for an example, the wife of prophet Muhammad,Aisha is one of the most influential muslims when it comes to teaching the people about Islam..and during the abassid caliphate, both women and men were taught in the same school regardless of the gender...it was until now suddenly some Muslim countries decided that muslim women should be treated differently compared to men.. im not sure about the reason honestly but anybody who actually learns about Islamic history would understand how islam is a religion which knowledge and wisdom are important for both men and women ..not only the islamic teaching itself but this includes medical, literature and other teachings..sorry for my bad English.
Sabina England 7 years ago
Prophet Muhammad also married Khadijah (RA), an older divorced woman. At that time, it was taboo for divorced women to re-marry (or get a divorce). She was about 20 years older than the Prophet, too.
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Maciek Ravs 7 years ago
Women from Sweden have different enemies and problems in 2017... How about tell it like it is.
Maciek Ravs 7 years ago
another side of the same problem.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Luekb-NmkXI
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Gökhan Aydın 7 years ago
What makes a tattoo artist (Maud Stevens Wagner) worthy enough to be on this list whether a man or a woman? I mean, what does it mean? C**p!
jacluckycat 7 years ago
It was a pretty significant taboo to eschew, at a time when everything about a woman's body and appearance was dictated by patriarchal society even more so than today. Tattooed women at the turn of the century and before were considered pariahs or confined to circus freak shows. It's not the tattooing itself. It's the implications of defiance by this woman and others.
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Janine Downer 7 years ago
How the hell is Margaret Thatcher not in this list? Not part of the narrative?
Stephanie Chapman 7 years ago
Nellie Bly was an amazing badass woman! In the early 1880s she responded to a sexist article in a newspaper and her response was so fantastic that she was offered a journalist job. She became and investigative reporter and often went undercover to expose terrible working conditions and the mistreatment of people. She began applied for a job at the World Newspaper in New York and was turned away. She said she would get them an incredible story for the job and she did. She got herself admitted to a mental hospital for Ten Days and then wrote an article about the conditions. That article changed how the mentally ill were treated in New York. When the book "Around the World in Eighty Days" came out and was a smash hit she said she could do it faster. She went on a crazy round the world trip and did it in 72 days. She was an incredible woman and I encourage you to find out more about her: http://www.biography.com/people/nellie-bly-9216680#bellevue-hospital-expos%C3%A9
Natalie Pestun 7 years ago
Lets not forget the Soviet female snipers, partisans and pilots who contributed greatly to winning WW2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyudmila_Pavlichenko, a9b718c655...347d71.jpg 
- THE NIGHT WITCHES - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_Witches
Gideon Gourell 4 years ago
Would have liked to see Hannah Szenes on the list. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hannah_Szenes
Asia Fooriatsdóttir 6 years ago
#3 The women in the picture by Runesson has a name too - her name was Danuta Danielsson (maiden name Seń, born in Gorzów Wielkopolski, Poland, on 18 march 1947. † 1988 in Sweden). https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kobieta_uderzaj%C4%85ca_torebk%C4%85_neonazist%C4%99
Natalie Hughes 7 years ago
Where is Constance Markievicz, she was the first woman elected to a parliament, sure she is deserving of a place, also a second-in-command revolution leader.
Leonard Zuniga 7 years ago
The picture of the woman with the handbag hitting the neo-nazi is from Varberg Sweden, not Växjö.
rakuninaru 7 years ago
I think this woman is missing: Berta Cáceres, a Honduran environmental activist, who was assassinated in her home for her activities protecting rivers and forests. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berta_C%C3%A1ceres I couldn't find a high-res picture
Linda Goodman 7 years ago
An inordinate number of Muslim women that seems especially unusual given their present grotesque oppression.
Sumantakumar das 7 years ago
How our society will be sanskritised and everybody will love each other with affection?
Elisa Dal Cin 7 years ago
Elena Lucrezia Cornaro Piscopia, first woman graduate EVER in the world, university Padova (Italy) 25 – 6 -1678! Look her up!
Lena Sterling 7 years ago
Where are Selma Lagerlöf, Rosa Bonheur, Judith Butler, Gertrude Stein, Anita Augsburg and Rosa Luxemburg???
Abel Kandie 7 years ago
No Wangari Maathai? It's sad that you're overlooking her environmental conservation efforts
Miklós Nagy 7 years ago
If it gets less upvote than the Nike hijab you know you are living on the wrong world.
Sick Boy 7 years ago
Activists rarely change anything. They're usually just wannabes and showboats. They shouldn't be in "changed the world" lists, regardless of the gender.
Anthony Goldstein (female) 4 years ago
Martin Luther King, Gandhi, Malcolm X, Nelson Mandela, Malala, Harriet Tubman, Greta Thunberg. The only way anything gets done is activists. Now ditch your pessimistic attitude and go get help.
Load More Replies... NurulAqilah Viktor 7 years ago
Just wanna say that despite of the fact that some Muslim countries are now infamous with how they treat women, back then during the times of prophet Muhammad both women and men did receive educational teaching..for an example, the wife of prophet Muhammad,Aisha is one of the most influential muslims when it comes to teaching the people about Islam..and during the abassid caliphate, both women and men were taught in the same school regardless of the gender...it was until now suddenly some Muslim countries decided that muslim women should be treated differently compared to men.. im not sure about the reason honestly but anybody who actually learns about Islamic history would understand how islam is a religion which knowledge and wisdom are important for both men and women ..not only the islamic teaching itself but this includes medical, literature and other teachings..sorry for my bad English.
Sabina England 7 years ago
Prophet Muhammad also married Khadijah (RA), an older divorced woman. At that time, it was taboo for divorced women to re-marry (or get a divorce). She was about 20 years older than the Prophet, too.
Load More Replies... Maciek Ravs 7 years ago
Women from Sweden have different enemies and problems in 2017... How about tell it like it is.
Maciek Ravs 7 years ago
another side of the same problem.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Luekb-NmkXI
Load More Replies... Gökhan Aydın 7 years ago
What makes a tattoo artist (Maud Stevens Wagner) worthy enough to be on this list whether a man or a woman? I mean, what does it mean? C**p!
jacluckycat 7 years ago
It was a pretty significant taboo to eschew, at a time when everything about a woman's body and appearance was dictated by patriarchal society even more so than today. Tattooed women at the turn of the century and before were considered pariahs or confined to circus freak shows. It's not the tattooing itself. It's the implications of defiance by this woman and others.
Load More Replies... Janine Downer 7 years ago
How the hell is Margaret Thatcher not in this list? Not part of the narrative?
Stephanie Chapman 7 years ago
Nellie Bly was an amazing badass woman! In the early 1880s she responded to a sexist article in a newspaper and her response was so fantastic that she was offered a journalist job. She became and investigative reporter and often went undercover to expose terrible working conditions and the mistreatment of people. She began applied for a job at the World Newspaper in New York and was turned away. She said she would get them an incredible story for the job and she did. She got herself admitted to a mental hospital for Ten Days and then wrote an article about the conditions. That article changed how the mentally ill were treated in New York. When the book "Around the World in Eighty Days" came out and was a smash hit she said she could do it faster. She went on a crazy round the world trip and did it in 72 days. She was an incredible woman and I encourage you to find out more about her: http://www.biography.com/people/nellie-bly-9216680#bellevue-hospital-expos%C3%A9
Natalie Pestun 7 years ago
Lets not forget the Soviet female snipers, partisans and pilots who contributed greatly to winning WW2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyudmila_Pavlichenko, a9b718c655...347d71.jpg - THE NIGHT WITCHES - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_Witches
Gideon Gourell 4 years ago
Would have liked to see Hannah Szenes on the list. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hannah_Szenes
Asia Fooriatsdóttir 6 years ago
#3 The women in the picture by Runesson has a name too - her name was Danuta Danielsson (maiden name Seń, born in Gorzów Wielkopolski, Poland, on 18 march 1947. † 1988 in Sweden). https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kobieta_uderzaj%C4%85ca_torebk%C4%85_neonazist%C4%99
Natalie Hughes 7 years ago
Where is Constance Markievicz, she was the first woman elected to a parliament, sure she is deserving of a place, also a second-in-command revolution leader.
Leonard Zuniga 7 years ago
The picture of the woman with the handbag hitting the neo-nazi is from Varberg Sweden, not Växjö.
rakuninaru 7 years ago
I think this woman is missing: Berta Cáceres, a Honduran environmental activist, who was assassinated in her home for her activities protecting rivers and forests. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berta_C%C3%A1ceres I couldn't find a high-res picture
Linda Goodman 7 years ago
An inordinate number of Muslim women that seems especially unusual given their present grotesque oppression.
Sumantakumar das 7 years ago
How our society will be sanskritised and everybody will love each other with affection?
Elisa Dal Cin 7 years ago
Elena Lucrezia Cornaro Piscopia, first woman graduate EVER in the world, university Padova (Italy) 25 – 6 -1678! Look her up!
Lena Sterling 7 years ago
Where are Selma Lagerlöf, Rosa Bonheur, Judith Butler, Gertrude Stein, Anita Augsburg and Rosa Luxemburg???
Abel Kandie 7 years ago
No Wangari Maathai? It's sad that you're overlooking her environmental conservation efforts
Miklós Nagy 7 years ago
If it gets less upvote than the Nike hijab you know you are living on the wrong world.
Sick Boy 7 years ago
Activists rarely change anything. They're usually just wannabes and showboats. They shouldn't be in "changed the world" lists, regardless of the gender.
Anthony Goldstein (female) 4 years ago
Martin Luther King, Gandhi, Malcolm X, Nelson Mandela, Malala, Harriet Tubman, Greta Thunberg. The only way anything gets done is activists. Now ditch your pessimistic attitude and go get help.
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