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Betty Naomi Goldstein (was born on February

4, 1921 in Peoria, Illinois). She married Carl

Friedan in 1947. Co-founded National

Organization for Women in 1966 which aimed to

bring women into the mainstream of

American society.

Betty Friedan, author of

"The Feminine Mystique”

Emily Elizabeth Dickinson (December 10, 

1830 – May 15, 1886) was an America

n 

poet. She wrote  around eighteen hundred

poems during her lifetime.

Born in Amherst, 

Massachusetts –USA.

Rosa Parks, (was born as Rosa Louise McCauley in

Tuskegee on February 4th , 1913 and died on the 24th October,

2005). She was an African-American civil rights

activist. The U.S. Congress later called her the

"Mother of the Modern

-Day Civil Rights

Movement."

Marie Curie, chemist and physicist .   

Her real name was , née Maria Sklodowska.

She was born in Warsaw on November 7,

1867. She met and later married Pierre Curie,

Professor in the

School of Physics with

whom she shared her

Nobel prize in physics.

Clara Zetkin (was born Clara Zeissner in Saxony, Germany on

5 July, 1857 and died in Archangelskoye, Russia in 1933). She

was an influential socialist German politician and a

fighter for women’s rights. She took on the name of

her lover, a Russian

revolutionary and fellow

exile, Ossip Zetkin. 

Alice Walker, author of "The Color Purple”.

Alice Malsenior Walker was born February 9,

1944 in Eatonton, Georgia. She is

an American author and poet. In 1965, Walker

met and later married

Mel Leventhal a

Jewish civil rights lawyer.

Rita Frances Dove (born 28 August

1952) is an American poet and author.

Dove was born in Akron,Ohio. She is

married to Fred Viebahn a German-born

writer.She is the first African-

American poet laureate.

Gloria Marie Steinem (born March 25, 1934) is

an American feminist, journalist, and social and

political activist. Steinem was born in Toledo,

Ohio. She was recognized as a leader of, and

media spokeswoman for,

The Women’s Liberation

Movement.

Mae Carol Jemison (born October 17,1956) is

an African American physician and NASA

Astronaut . She was born in Decatur,

Alabama. She became the first African

American woman to

travel in space.

Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, M.D. (July 8, 1926 –

August 24, 2004) was a Swiss-

born psychiatrist and author. Born in

Zurich, Switzerland, one of triplets. 

She is the author of the

book "On Death and

Dying"

Ella Jane Fitzgerald (April 25, 1917 –

June 15, 1996) also known as the “1st

Lady of Song” and "Lady Ella," was an

American jazz and popular song vocalist.

Fitzgerald was born

in Newport News,

Virginia.

Margaret Higgins Sanger

Slee (September 14, 1879 – September

6, 1966) was an American birth control

activist and the founder of Planned

Parenthood.

Sanger was born

in Corning, New

York.

Geraldine Anne Ferraro (born August 26,

1935) is an American attorney, a Democratic

Party politician and first female candidate for

Vice President in 1984.

Ferraro was born

in Newburg, New

York.

Indira Priyadarshini Gandhi (19 November

1917 – 31 October 1984) First female Prime

Minister of the Republic of India for 3

consecutive terms from 1966 to 1977 and

for a fourth term from

1980 until her

assassination in

1984.

Billie Jean King (née Moffitt; born November 22, 1943

in Long Beach, California) is a former

professional tennis player . She won 12 Grand

Slam singles titles, 16 Grand Slam women's doubles

titles, and 11 Grand Slam

mixed doubles titles.She is

married to Lawrence

King.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton (November 12, 1815 –

October 26, 1902… Johnstown, New York) was an

American social activist, abolitionist, and

leading figure of the early woman’s

movement.

Elizabeth was the

eighth of 11 children.

 Susan Brownell Anthony (February 15, 1820

– March 13, 1906. Born and raised in West Grove) was

a prominent American Civil Rights leader

who played a pivotal role in the 19th century

women’s rights 

movement to introduce

women’s suffrage

in USA.

  Helena Rubinstein (December 25, 1870 – April 1,

1965. Born Chaja Rubinstein, the eldest of eight children),

a Polish cosmetics industrialist, founder and

eponym of H. Rubinstein, Inc., It made her one of

the world's richest women.

Married an American

journalist Edward

William Titus in London.

Maxine Hong Kingston (Chinese American; born

October 27, 1940 in Stockton, California to first

generation Chinese immigrants. ) is an author and

Professor Emeritus at the University of

California, Berkeley.

In 1962 Maxine

married Earl Kingston,

an actor

 Audrey Hepburn (4 May 1929 – 20 January 1993. Born

in Ixelles, Belgium as Audrey Kathleen Ruston. ) British actress

and humanitarian. Studied ballet, worked as a

photographer’s model and later took on an acting carrier

becoming one of the

most successful film actresses

in the world winning an

Academy Award, a Golden

Globe and a BAFTA for her

performance in the film

Roman Holiday.

Maya Angelou  (born Marguerite Ann Johnson on

April 4, 1928 St. Louis, Missouri) is an African

American autobiographer and poet who has

been called "America's most visible black

female autobiographer.