The most important national &

international equality defenders

WOMEN WHO CHANGED THE WORLD

1O.❖ VALENTINA

TERESHKOVA

is a retired Russian cosmonaut and politician. She is the first woman to have flown in space, having been selected from more than four hundred applicants and five finalists to pilot Vostok 6 on 16 June 1963. She completed 48 orbits of the Earth in her three days in space

9.❖ALICE PERRY

was the first woman in Ireland or Great Britain to graduate with a degree in engineering.

8.❖ JEANNETTE RANKIN

became the first woman to hold national office in the United States when she was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1916 by the state of Montana as a member of the Republican Party

7.❖MALALA YOUSAFZAI

is a Pakistani activist for female education and the youngest-ever Nobel Prize laureate

6.❖ FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

was an English social reformer and was an English social reformer and statistician, and the founder of modern nursing.

5.❖ AMELIA EARHART

was an American aviation pioneer and author.Earhart was the first female aviator to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean.i

4.❖ COCO CHANEL

was a French fashion designer and businesswoman. She was the founder and namesake of the Chanel brand. Along with Paul Poiret, Chanel was credited in the post-World War I era with liberating women from the constraints of the "corseted silhouette" and popularizing a sporty, casual chic as the feminine standard of style.

3.❖ MARGARET THATCHER

was loved and hated equally for some of her controversial policies but she never gave up. She was known as the 'Iron lady' for her uncompromising politics and leadership style. From being a grocer's daughter to graduating from Oxford University to becoming a bannister, she went on to becoming Britain's first and to date, only female Prime Minister elected in 1979 and the country's fifth longest serving leader.

2.❖ MOTHER TERESA

was the founder of the Order of the Missionaries of Charity, a Roman Catholic congregation of women dedicated to helping the poor. Considered one of the greatest humanitarians of the 20th century, she was canonized as Saint Teresa of Calcutta in 2016.

1.❖ MARIA

SKŁODOWSKA-CURIE

Polish physicist and chemist, was the first person to have received two Nobel Prizes. She was the first female professor at the University of Paris and the first lady to be enshrined in France's national mausoleum, the Paris Panthéon, all based on her own merits.