Women Who Inspire Europe

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Women who inspire Europe

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Learning Partnership Grundtvig

Everybody can do it! (ECDI)

IES JACARAND (Sevilla, Spain)Pages 3-6

Mission Locale de l'Agenais, de l'Albret et du Confluent

(Agen, France)Pages 7-10

tefan Procopiu High School - Vaslui (Romania)Pages 11-21

LEARNMERA OY (Helsinki, Finland)Pages 35-39

SA Tstamaa Mis (Tstamaa, Estonia)Pages 29-34

MLL ETM MDRL (Uak, Turkey)Pages 22-28

Accentuate (North East) Limited(Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom)

Pages 40-45

EUROYOUTH Portugal (Lisaboa, Portugal)Pages 46-54


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SPAIN


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Esperanza AguirreEsperanza Aguirre (born 1952) is a powerfulSpanish politician and the first female politician inSpanish history to have held the position ofPresident of the Senate and the first femaleMinister of Education and Culture.

Ana Isabel de PalacioAna Isabel de Palacio is a Spanish politician.She was a member of European Parliament(1994-2002) and the Spanish Minister of Foreign

Affairs (2002-2004) under the PP party.

Isabella I of CastileIsabella I of Castile is considered one of the mostpowerful Spanish queens in history. Before herdeath in 1504, she sponsored Columbus' voyage to

America, initiated the Spanish Inquisition andunified the Spanish kingdoms.

Queen Sofa of SpainQueen Sofa of Spain is the reining queen ofSpain of Greek origin. Sofia participates inmany official and political acts in Spain and is afigurehead of the Spanish monarchy.
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Isabel PantojaIsabel Pantoja is a famous Spanishsinger of Romani (Gypsy) origin. Sheis famous for her Andalusian singingstyle and presence in Spanishmedia.

Monserrat CaballMonserrat Caball is a famousSpanish opera soprano known for awide variety of roles.

Sara MontielSara Montiel, born in 1928, is one ofSpain's most famous actresses. Sheis well known in Europe and Latin

America and continues to appear intelevision shows.

Penelope Cruz SnchezPenelope Cruz Snchez is the mostfamous international Spanish actress andhas won various awards including an

Academy Award and Oscar for her role inWoody Allen's Vicky Cristina Barcelona.
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Dolores IbrruriIsidora Dolores Ibrruri Gmez (18951989), known more famously as "LaPasionaria", was a Spanish Republicanleader of the Spanish Civil War andcommunist politician ofBasque origin.

Cristina Snchez de PablosCristina Snchez de Pablos was thefirst Spanish woman to make a namefor herself as a professional bullfighter.

Rosario ValpuestaMaria Rosario Valpuesta Fernndez, was a Professor, Doctor of Law.

She was born in Seville in 1953 and diedin Seville in 2013 at 60 years old.She was the first Andalusian woman who was at the forefront of aChancellor, taking over in 1997 from the University Pablo de OlavideSeville. She was strongly committed on the equality of women and men,was active in various fields.
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FRANCE


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Coco ChanelGabrielle "Coco" Bonheur Chanel(August 19, 1883 January 10, 1971)was a French fashion designer andfounder of the Chanel brand. She wasthe only fashion designer to appear onTime magazine's list of the 100 mostinfluential people of the 20th century.

Simone de BeauvoirSimone de Beauvoir (19081986),was a French writer, intellectual,existentialist philosopher, politicalactivist, feminist, and social theorist.She had a significant influence on bothfeminist existentialism and feministtheory. The treatiseThe Second Sexa detailed analysis of women'soppression and a foundational tract ofcontemporary feminism.

Marguerite DurasMarguerite Donnadieu, known as

Marguerite Duras (1914 1996)was a French writer and filmdirector. She was the author ofmany novels, plays, films,interviews, essays and shortfiction, including her best-selling
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Sarah Bernhardt

Sarah Bernhardt (18441923) was a Frenchstage and early film actress, and has beenreferred to as "the most famous actress theworld has ever known". She developed areputation as a serious dramatic actress,earning the nickname "The Divine Sarah."

George SandAmantine Lucile Aurore Dupin Dudevant(1804 1876), best known by herpseudonym George Sand, was a Frenchnovelist and memoirist. Novels: Indiana,Mauprat, Consuelo.

Jeanne d'ArcJeanne d'Arc, (ca. 1412 1431),nicknamed "The Maid of Orlans"(French:La Pucelle d'Orlans), is a folkheroine of France and a Roman Catholicsaint.

Catherine DeneuveCatherine Deneuve (born 22 October1943) is a French actress. She gainedrecognition for her portrayal of aloofand mysterious beauties in films suchas Repulsion (1965) and Belle de jour(1967).
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Madame de Stal

Anne Louise Germaine de Stal-Holstein(1766 -1817), known as Madame deStal, was a French woman of letters ofSwiss origin whose lifetime overlappedwith the events of the French Revolutionand the Napoleonic era of which she wasa principal opponent. Celebrated for herconversational eloquence, sheparticipated actively in the political andintellectual life of her times.

dith Piafdith Piaf (1915 1963) was aFrench singer who became widelyregarded as France's nationalpopular singer, as well as being oneof France's greatest internationalstars. Songs: La Vie en rose (1946),Non, je ne regrette rien (1960),Hymne l'amour (1949), Milord(1959), La Foule (1957).

Brigitte BardotBrigitte Anne-Marie Bardot (born 28September 1934) is a French former

actress, singer and fashion model,now an animal rights activist. She wasone of the best known sex symbols ofthe 1950s and '60s. Starting in 1969,Bardot's features became the officialface ofMarianne (who had previouslybeen anonymous) to represent theliberty of France.
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Romanian Women Number 1 in

Romania and Europe
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Virginia Maria

Andreescu Haret Date and place of Birth:21st June 1894, Bucharest,

Romania; Date of Death: 6th May 1962; Known for: It was the first woman

architect in the world; Occupation: architect.

Ana Aslan Date and place of Birth:

1st January 1897, Braila, Romania; Date and place of Death:

20th May 1988, Bucharest, Romania; Occupation: doctor, specialist in

gerontology, academician, directorof the National Institute of Geriatrics

and Gerontology; Known for: she discovered vitamin

H3 (Gerovital) and she invented theproduct Aslavital.

Clemansa BarberisPlcinteanu

Date and place of Birth:

12th March 1899, Iasi, Romania; Date and place of Death: 11thOctober 1986, Bucharest,Romania;

Occupation: composer, soprano,violinist, teacher of singing;

Known for: first female operacomposer in Romania.


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Sarmiza Bilcescu

Date of Birth: 27th April 1867 Date of Dead: 26th August 1935 Occupation: lawyer Known for: the first European

woman ever to obtain a license anda PhD in Law from the University ofParis, and the first one in Romaniato practice law. The first womanlawyer in Europe.

Smaranda BrescuQueen Air

Date and place of Birth: 21st May1897, Galati, Romania;

Date of Death: 2nd February1948;

Occupation: teacher, pilot; Known for: first woman pilot in

Romania, first woman parachutistpatented in Romania.

Gabriela Chaborski Date and place of Birth: 14th

October 1891, Barlad (Vaslui),Romania; Date of Dead: 25th November

1936; Occupation: lecturer of organic

chemistry at the University ofBucharest;

Known for: first women lecturer inRomania.


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Nadia Comaneci Date and place of birth: 12thNovember 1961, Bacau,

Romania; Occupation: gymnast; Known for: first gymnast ever to

be awarded a perfect score of 10in an Olympic gymnastic event(1976).

Maria Cuarida Crtunescu

Date and place of Birth: 10thFebruary 1857, Calarasi, Romania;

Date of Death: November 1919; Occupation: doctor Known for: the first women doctor in

Romania; she organized the firstnursery in a factory in Romania.

Cecilia Cutescu Storck Date and place of Birth: 14th

March 1879, Valcea, Romania; Date of Dead: 1969; Occupation: painter, teacher; Known for: the first woman

teacher in art education inEurope.


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Elena Densuianu Pucariu Date and place of birth: March 3rd,

1875, Brasov, Romania; Date of death: 1966; Occupation: doctor ophthalmologist,

writer, painter, translator; Known for: the first woman

professor in the medical field inRomania, the first woman professorof clinical ophthalmology in the

world.

Smaranda Gheorghiu Date and place of birth:

5th October 1857,Targoviste, Romania;

Date and place of death: 26th January1944, Bucharest, 1944;

Occupation: writer, journalist, militantfeminist movement; Known for: the first woman who

traveled to North Pole.

Aurora Gruescu Date and place of birth: 11th May

1914, Bacau, Romania; Date of death: 2005; Occupation: forestry engineer; Known for: the world's first female

forestry engineer, the first Romanianentered in the Guinness Book;

Also known as: Mrs. Romanianforest.


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Sofia Ionescu Ogrezeanu Date and place of birth: 25th April1922, Falticeni, Romania;

Date of death: 21st March 2008; Occupation: Neurosurgeon Known for: the first neurosurgeon

woman in the world.

Teodora Angela Lefterescu Date and place of birth: 3rd August

1926, Suceava, Romania; Date and place of death: 29th April

2007, Constanta, Romania; Occupation: captain; Known for: the first female captain

long haul in Europe.

Eliza Leonida Zamfirescu Date and place of birth: 10th

November 1887, Galati, Romania; Date of death: 25th November

1973; Occupation: engineer; Known for: the first female student

of the Royal Technical Academyin Berlin. The first womanengineer in Europe.


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Uca Maria Marinescu Date and place of birth: 15th

May 1940, Harghita, Romania; Occupation: explorer; Known for: the first Romanian

to reach the Antarctic.

tefania Mrcineanu Date and place of birth: 18th

June 1882, Bucharest, Romania; Date of death: 1944; Occupation: physicist Known for: the true discoverer of

artificial radioactivity.

Vera Myller Date of birth: 1880; Date of death: 1970; Occupation: mathematician; Known for: the first woman

university professor inRomania.


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Ella Negruzzi Date and place of birth: 11thSeptember 1876, Iasi, Romania;

Date and place of death: 19thDecember 1949, Bucharest,Romania;

Occupation: lawyer; Known for: the first woman

lawyer in Romania.

Raluca Ripan Date and place of birth: 27th

June 1894, Iasi, Romania; Date and place of death: 5th

December 1972, Cluj-Napoca,

Romania; Occupation: chemist; Known for: the first woman dean

of Romania.

Maria Rosetti Date and place of birth:

1820, Anglia; Date and place of death: Known for: the first woman

journalist in Romania.


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Elena StoenescuCaragiani

Date and place of birth: 13thMay 1887, Tecuci, Romania;

Date and place of death:29th March 1929, Bucharest,Romania;

Occupation: Known for: the first woman

aviator in Romania.

Elena Teodorini Date and place of birth: 25th

March 1857, Craiova, Romania; Date and place of death: 27th

February 1926, Bucharest,

Romania; Occupation: soprano; Known for: the first singer from

Romania who sang in the LaScala Theater from Milano.

Maria Teohari Date and place of birth: 22nd

April 1885, Giurgiu, Romania; Date and place of death: 1975,

Bucharest; Occupation: astronomer, teacher

of mathematics and astronomy; Known for: the first woman

astronomer in Romania.


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Marta Trancu Rainer Date and place of birth:

1875, Iasi, Romania; Date and place of death:

1950, Bucharest, Romania; Occupation: surgeon; Known for: the first female

surgeon in Romania.

Elena Vcrescu Date and place of birth: 21st

September 1864, Bucharest,Romania;

Date and place of death: 17thFebruary 1946, Paris, France;

Occupation: writer; Known for: the first woman who

joined the Romanian Academy.

Iulia Ha deu Date and place of birth: 1869,

Bucarest, Romania; Date and place of death: 1888,

Bucarest, Romania; Occupation: writer; Known for: is the first Romanian

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Huan Viorica Elena Date and place of birth: 1923,

Suceava, Romania; Occupation: stewardess Known for: is the first woman to

obtain a stewardess degree inRomania.

Larisa Tudor Year of birth: 1990 Occupation: Romanian Army

lieutenant Known for: the only Romanian

woman who graduated fromWest Point, the world's largestmilitary academy.

Florica Bagdasar Date of birth: 1901 Occupation: doctor Known for: Romania's first

female minister and the onlywoman who representedRomania at the PeaceConference of 1946 in Paris.


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Turkey


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Halide Edip Advar

Halide Edip Advar or Halide EdibAdivar (18841964) was a Turkishnovelist and nationalist and feministpolitical leader.

She was best known for her novelscriticizing the low social status ofTurkish women and what she sawas the lack of interest of mostwomen in changing their situation.

Fatma Aliye

Fatma Aliye Topuz (1862 - 1936),aka simply Fatma Aliye or Fatma

Aliye Hanm, was a Turkish novelist,columnist, essayist, women's rights

activist and humanitarian.

She is credited by literary circles asthe first female novelist in Turkishliterature and the Islamic world.
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Nezihe Muhiddin

Nezihe Muhiddin (1889 1958)was an Ottoman and Turkishwomen's rights activist, journalist,writer and political leader.

She spent her life working toimprove the quality of the lives ofTurkish women.

Feriha Tevfik Da

Feriha Tevfik Da (maidenname: Negz, 191022 April1991) was a Turkish beautypageant contestant andactress. She is best known forbeing the very first MissTurkey (1929).

She participated again in thepageant in 1932 and finishedsecond afterKeriman Halis.
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Hat rpanHat rpan(formerly Sat Kadn,1890 - 1956) was one of the firstfemale deputies of the GrandNational Assembly of Turkey,elected in the 8 February 1935general elections.

She changed her first name,Sati, to Hat at the request of the

Atatrk who was intererested inHatti at the time.

Tansu Penbe iller

Tansu Penbe iller (born in 1946,Istanbul) is a Turkish economist,politician and the 22nd PrimeMinisterofTurkey.

She is Turkey's first and onlyfemale prime minister to date.
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Sabiha Gken

Sabiha Gken (19132001) wasa Turkish / Bosniak aviator.

According to the Air University, shewas the world's first female fighterpilot, and the first Turkish female

combat pilot, aged 23.

She was one of the eight adoptedchildren ofMustafa Kemal Atatrk.

Mfide lhan

Mfide lhan (1911- 1996)was a mayor of Mersin,Turkey in the early 1950s.

She is known as being the

first woman mayor inTurkey.
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Glkz rbl

Glkz rbl (1901-1990) was thefirst female muhtar (villagehead)in Turkey. She later on changedher name to Gl Esin Aydn.

In 1930s Glkz rbl was one of

the few literate village women inTurkey. n the election campaignshe ran against seven malecandidates and won the muhtarelection.

Behice Boran

First female Turkish party leaderwas Behice Boran (1910-1987).

A member of the Workers Party ofTurkey (TP), she was elected asthe chairman of the party in 1970and continued in this post until allthe political parties were closedfollowing the September 11, 1980military coup.
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Trkn Akyol

Trkn Akyol (born October 12,1928) is a Turkish femalepolitician, physician andacademician.

She was the first femalegovernment ministerand the firstfemale university rector inTurkey.

Lale Aytaman

Dr. Lale Aytaman (born 1944) wasthe governor of Mula province inTurkey from 1991 to 1995 and thefirst female governor of Turkey.

She is well known for herengagement for the protection ofthe environment, cultural heritage,

and promoting tourism in herregion.

She helped women for promotingtheirhandicrafts.
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Lydia Koidula (1843 1886)Lydia Emilie Florentine Jannsen, known after her penname Lydia Koidula was an Estonian poet. Hersobriquet means 'Lydia of the Dawn' in Estonian. Itwas given her by the writer Carl Robert Jakobson. Sheis also frequently referred to as Koidulaulik 'Singer ofthe Dawn'.

In Estonia, like elsewhere in Europe, writing was notconsidered a suitable career for a respectable younglady in the mid-nineteenth-century. Koidula's poetryand her newspaper work for her populist father,

Johann Voldemar Jannsen (18191890) remainedanonymous. In spite of this, she was a major literaryfigure, the founder of Estonian theatre, and closelyallied to Carl Robert Jakobson (1841-1882), theinfluential radical and Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwald(1803-1882), writer of the Estonian national epic,Kalevipoeg (The Son of Kalev).

She was member of council of Estonian first SongFestival in 1869.

Lilli Suburg (1841 1923)

Lilli Suburg was an Estonian journalist, writerand first Estonia feminist. In 1882, sheestablished a private primary school forEstonian girls in Prnu, in 1885 she moved itto Viljandi where the number of pupils grew to80.

Lilli was Lydia Koidulas schoolmate.

Lilli Suburg Publisher first Estonian womenmagazine Linda.

She is fighting with stereotypes that (older)single woman are worse than married one.


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Marie Under (1883 1980)

Marie Under was one of the greatest Estonianpoets who wrote about joy, love, whose workswere full of happiness. Her latest works weremore dispirited and sad. This was related theevents during II World War and her escape toSweden.

Beginning in September 1944, the U.S.S.R.occupied Estonia. Under and her family fled toSweden. They spent almost a year in arefugee camp. In 1945, the family moved toMlarhjden, a suburb of Stockholm, Sweden,where Under lived until her death onSeptember 25, 1980. She is buried in theWoodland Cemetery in Stockholm.

Marie Under poetry is most famous in Estoniabecause of its beauty, simple words, Estonianlike and feminine.

Kauksi lle (1962 - )

lle Kauksi is well-known Estonian (Vro)poet and active member of community andcultural field.

She has been written lot of poetry, plays and

stories in native Vru language.

Recognitions: 1992 Bernard Kangro literature award 2004 Gustav Suitsu stipendium 2006 Valgethe IV klassi teenetemrk 2008 Aasta naine /woman of a year


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Marju Lauristin (1940 - )

Marju Lauristin is an Estonian politician andsocial scientist. Her father Johannes Lauristinsigned away Estonia's freedom to the SovietUnion in 1940.

Together with Edgar Savisaar, in 1988 Lauristinestablished Rahvarinne, the first large-scaleindependent political movement in Estonia sincethe beginning of the Soviet occupation. In 1990she was deputy speaker of the Estonian

parliament. From 1992 to 1994 she was theminister of Social Affairs of Estonia (EstonianSocial Democratic Party/'Moderates'). Later, shewas also a member of the Riigikogu, elected as amember of the People's Party Moderates.

Lauristin graduated from the Tartu StateUniversity (now Tartu University) in 1966 with adegree in Journalism and Sociology of MassCommunication. In 1976, Lauristin completed herPhD studies in Journalism at Moscow University.

Since 2003, Lauristin has been a professor ofSocial communication at Tartu University.

Reet Aus (1974 - )

She is a fashion, theatre and film designer,Ph.D. She is keen on to develop peopleunderstanding of environmental issues and

her fashion is related with the topic.

She has lately presented collection TrashTo Trend Upcycled Collection, the worldsfirst mass produced collection fromproduction leftovers.

She is a mother of three children.


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Erika Salume (1962 - )

Erika Salume is an Estonian track bicycleracer who won the first Olympic gold medalfor Estonia after the country regained itsindependence in 1991. She was born inPrnu. She trained at VSS Kalev in Tallinn.

Salume won gold medal in track cycling inthe 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul,competing for the USSR team and in the1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona,

competing for Estonia. From 1981 to 1989,she won 10 gold, 3 silver, and 3 bronzemedals in the World Championships. From1982 to 1989, she set 15 world records andwas elected the Best Estonian Athlete in1983, 1984, 19871990, 1992, 1995, and1996.

She has been active in politics in 1996 till2010. She is living in Spain now.

Karmen Kass (1978 - )Karmen Kass is one of the best knownEstonian models in the world.

Kass moved to Paris at the age of eighteen andsoon received exposure by appearing on thecovers of French and American Vogue,Australian Elle, UK Image, Madame Figaro,and French Numro.

Her career was launched by Anna Wintour andby 1999, Kass was walking the runway fordesigners such as Shiatzy Chen, Marc Jacobs,Michael Kors, Calvin Klein, Ralph Lauren,Donna Karan, and Dolce & Gabbana, andposing in advertisements for designers andbrands like Calvin Klein, Chanel, Gucci, DonnaKaran, Dsquared, Versace, Givenchy, Fendi,Max Mara, Valentino, and etc.


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Anni Sinnemki (born 20 July

1973) is a Finnish politician and amember of the Finnish Parliament.She is a representative of the

Green League. She was first elected tothe parliament in 1999 and acted as theMinister for Labour from 2009 to 2011.

She was elected chairwoman ofthe Green League in May 2009. Shehas been a member of the city councilof Helsinki since 2004.

She also studied literature andhas published her own poetry. Earlier inthe late 1990s, she was in a successfulFinnish pop band called Ultra Bra andwrote many of their lyrics.

Tarja Turunen Cabuli (born

August 17, 1977) is a Finnish singer-songwriter and composer.She is well known as a

professional classical lied singer butbest known as the former leadvocalist of the Finnish symphonicmetal band Nightwish, which shefounded with other band members in1996.

Their symphonic metal style,soon dubbed "opera metal", inspiredmany other metal bands andsingers. She was dismissed from theband in 2005 for personal reasons,and continued with a successful solocareer, releasing several newalbums and performing in concertsand festivals all over Europe.


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Tarja Kaarina Halonen (born 24

December 1943) is a Finnish lawyer whowas the 11th President of Finland, serving

from 2000 to 2012.

The first female to hold the office,

Halonen had previously been a member of

the parliament from 1979 to 2000 until her

election to the presidency.

In addition to her political career,she had a long and extensive career in

trade unions and different non-

governmental organizations.

Anna-Leena Hrknen (born10 April 1965) is a Finnish writer andactress. She studied dram in collegeand started writing novels at a youngage. Her debut novel Hrntappoasewon an esteemed literary prize J.H.Erkko Award in 1984.

Anna-Leena Hrknen lives inHelsinki and works as freelance writer;

novelist and actress. She is aproductive novelist with more than 20books.

Some dramatic productions,including one movie and a TV series,have been adapted based onHrknens works.


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Kirsti Paakkanen (born 12February 1929) is a Finnishbusiness manager.

Since her career as anentrepreneur in marketing atStockmann, different advertisingagencies and leading a successfulmarketing agency Womenan she bought the Finnish businessMarimekko in 1991, whichdeveloped into one of the mostsuccessful Finnish textile andclothes companies under hermanagement.

Tove Jansson (9 August 1914

27 June 2001) was a Swedish-speaking Finnish novelist, painter,illustrator and comic strip author. Shealso wrote short stories, articles andcreated different kinds of illustrations.She continued to work as an artist forthe rest of her life, alongside herwriting.

Jansson is best known as the

author of the Moomin books forchildren. The first such book, TheMoomins and the Great Flood,appeared in 1945, but she becamefamous with the following books Cometin Moominland and Finn FamilyMoomintroll, published in 1946 and1948. She also wrote six novels andfive books of short stories for adults.


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Helene Schjerfbeck (July10, 1862 January 23, 1946)was a well-known Finnishpainter.

She is most widely known forher realist works and self-portraits, and less well knownfor her landscapes and still

lifes.

Throughout her long life, herwork changed dramatically.

Aino Aalto (25 January 1894 13 January 1949) was a Finnisharchitect and designer. Shebegan studies in architecture atthe Institute of Technology,Helsinki, and qualified as anarchitect in 1920.

That same year she went to workfor architect OivaKallio inHelsinki. In 1923 she moved tothe city of Jyvskyl to work inthe office of architect Gunnar A.Wahlroos, but the following yearswitched to working in the officeof architect Alvar Aalto when theygot married.


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Malala Yousafzai foundation makes first grant

Malala Yousafzai, thePakistani schoolgirlbrought to England afterbeing shot in the head bythe Taliban, hasannounced the firstdonation from her neweducation charity with

the support of HollywoodactorAngelina Jolie.

The 15-year-old set upthe Malala Fund after theTaliban tried toassassinate her in October 2012 for asserting her right to go to school in herhome country. Malala, who now attends Edgbaston high school for girls inBirmingham, said it was the happiest moment of her life in a video played atthe Women in the World summit in New York.

She spent hours undergoing major surgery at the Queen Elizabeth Hospitalin Birmingham where surgeons tried to repair the damage caused by a bulletthat grazed her brain.

The grant of US$45,000 (29,500) will be given to an unnamed organisationin the Swat Valley in Pakistan to support the education of 40 girls aged five to12 who would otherwise be forced into domestic labour.

The organisation, which was not named for security reasons, will offer a safeplace for the girls to study as well as financial support for their families.

In a video played to an audience of thousands Malala said: "Announcing thefirst grant of the Malala Fund is the happiest moment in my life.

"I invite all of you to support the Malala Fund and let us turn the education of40 girls into 40 million girls."
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Inez McCormack

Human rights activist and trade unionist who became involved in the NorthernIreland civil rights movement in the 1960s

She first became involved in the trade union movement when she wassuspended from her job as a social worker in west Belfast for challenging theway desperately poor people were being treated. She began campaigning toorganise and revalue the work and contribution of "forgotten" workers, mostof them women in low-paid jobs.

Inez helped to found and was an active member of the Vital Voices globaladvisory network, which gives support to women challenging gender-basedviolence and social and economic exclusion. The network has led importantcampaigns to outlaw and challenge the trafficking of women.

Inezs life and work have

been portrayed in NewYork by Meryl Streep inthe play SEVEN. Theinternationally acclaimedwork depicts the lives ofseven remarkable womenleaders, as they triumphover huge obstacles tocreate major changes to

human rights in theirhome countries. The triple- Oscar winning actressdescribed herself as'honoured to read Inezsrole.
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Octavia Hill (18381912)

She was an English social reformer,whose main concern was the welfareof the inhabitants of cities, especiallyLondon, in the second half of thenineteenth century. At age 14 shewas working for the welfare ofworking-class people.

Hill was a moving force behind thedevelopment of social housing. Shebelieved in self-reliance, and made ita key part of her housing systemthat she and her assistants knewtheir tenants personally andencouraged them to betterthemselves.

Another of Hill's concerns was the availability of open spaces for poor people.She campaigned against development on existing suburban woodlands, andhelped to save London's Hampstead Heath from being built on. She was oneof the three founders of the National Trust, set up to preserve places ofhistoric interest or natural beauty for the enjoyment of the British public.

She was a founder member of the charity Family Action which organisedcharitable grants and pioneered a home-visiting service that formed the basis

for modern social work.

She was also the founder of the Army Cadet Force, giving boys from poorbackgrounds an opportunity for informal learning, based on the core values ofSelf-Reliance, Cleanliness, Order and Discipline. 152 Years later the ACFstill holds these values at the heart of its work.


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Mo Mowlam

Mo Mowlam was a British Labour Party politician.

She was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Redcar from 1987 to 2001 andserved in the Cabinet as Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, Minister forthe Cabinet Office and Chancellor of the Dutchy of Lancaster. Her time asNorthern Ireland Secretary saw the signing of the historic Good Friday

Agreement, a major political development in the Northern Ireland peace

process of the 1990s.The present constitutional status of Northern Ireland as part of the UnitedKingdom, and Northern Ireland's devolved system of government are basedon the Agreement. The Agreement also created a number of institutionsbetween Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland and between theRepublic of Ireland and the United Kingdom.

Her personal charisma, reputation for plain speaking and her fight against abrain tumour led her to be perceived by many as one of the most popular"New Labour" politicians in the UK.


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The power list the 100 mostinfluential women in the UK

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The Queen, Home Secretary Theresa May and Santander bankboss Ana Botin have been declared the UK's top three mostpowerful women in a BBC survey. A panel of judges compiled a list

of the country's 100 most influential females for Radio 4's Woman'sHour. Further down were author JK Rowling at seventh andScottish Deputy First Minister Nicola Sturgeon at 20th.One judge,

journalist Eve Pollard, said the list highlighted the sectors wherewomen were still under-represented.
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Baker of Aljubarrota

Brites de Almeida, the Baker ofAljubarrota, was a legendary figure,whose name is associated with thePortuguese victory, against theCastilian forces at the battle of

Aljubarrota in 1385.

Her action made her a heroinecelebrated by people in theirtraditional stories and songs.

Marquesa de Alorna

Poet, translator and Portugueseeducator, she born in 1750 anddied in 1839.

D. Leonor de Almeida PortugalLorraine and Lancaster, better

known as Marchioness ofAlorna, was author of a work stillundiscovered and large lettersdisclosing party of new ideascoming from Europe.


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Antnia Ferreira-Ferreirinha

Speaking of port wine and Dourowithout talking about D. Antnia isalmost impossible. She was born inRegua in 1811-1896.

She was known as the

"Ferreirinha", determined andcourageous woman, built a hugeempire during the nineteenthcentury through the cultivation ofthe land and helping the peopleand producing quality wine forexport to all over the world.

Adelaide CabeteShe was born in 1867 in Elvas, anddied in 1935. She graduated inMedicine in 1900, medical-surgicalSchool of Lisbon.

She had a humanist dimension and asocial conscience and her biggest

struggle and main land of action anddebate was feminism.She organized in Portugal theLeagues of Good Deeds, voluntarywelfare work directed by women anddirected the magazine female soul.

She undertook the Organization of theI Feminist Congress and Education,held in Lisbon in 1924.


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Florbela Espanca

Florbela Espanca was born inVila Viosa in 1894, beingnamed for the beautiful name ofFlor Bela Lobo, 20th June of thefollowing year. She died in her36th birthday, December 8,1930.

In November 1903, at the age ofseven, she wrote her first poetrythat there is knowledge, Lifeand Death.

Amlia Rey Colao

Amlia Rey Colao was born inLisbon, 1898-1990, former stagemanager and actress. She isconsidered the most prominent figureof the Portuguese Theatre of the 20thcentury; she was born into a family ofartists.

She married, in December 1920, with

the actor Robles Monteiro. Thefollowing year, the two founded atheatre company. It will be the longest-lasting of all Europe, with fiftythreeyears of existence the companyRey Colao-Robles Monteiro,headquartered at the Teatro NacionalD. Maria II and officially extinct in1988.


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Ana de Castro Osrio

Ana de Castro Osrio was a pioneer inPortugal in the fight for equal rightsbetween man and woman. She wrote, in1905, Portuguese Females, the firstPortuguese feminist manifesto.

She was one of the founders of thePortuguese Group of Feminist Studies,in 1907, of the Republican League of

Females, in 1909, of the Association ofFeminist Propaganda, in 1912, of thewomen's Commission by the Motherland,in 1916. At the political level shecollaborated in the elaboration of theLaw of Divorce.

She is considered the creator ofchildren's literature in Portugal.

Amlia Rodrigues

Amlia Rodrigues was born in Lisbon in1920 and died in the year 1999.

It was originally a humble family, becameknown worldwide as the Queen of Fadoand, consequently, because of thesymbolism that this musical genre has inPortuguese culture, she was consideredby many as one of its best ambassadorsin the world.


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Sophia de Mello BreynerAndersen

Sophia de Mello BreynerAndersen was born in Porto in1919 and died in 2004. She wasone of the most important poetsof the 20th century.

Author of prose texts, includingStories of land and sea, Thegirl of the sea and Thegentleman from Denmark.

Paula Rego

She was born on the 26th 1935 in

Lisbon from a Republican family.At the age of 17 years she wentstudying to London for the SladeSchool of Fine Art, her work isadmired worldwide has severalsolo exhibitions and retrospectivesin museumsand galleries.

In 1990 she became the first artistassociated with the NationalGallery in London, she is one ofthe most acclaimed Portuguesefigures worldwide.


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Maria de Lourdes PintasilgoMaria de Lourdes Ruivo da Silva MatosPintasilgo was born in January 18, 1930and died on July 10, 2004. Heracademic formation was ChemicalEngineering, Church and political leader.Was head of Government from July1979 to January 1980 in PortugueseRepublic III.

After the revolution of April 25, 1974,she was named Secretary of State forSocial Security and after Minister ofSocial Affairs between 1974 and 1975.

Since 2001, becomes President of theFoundation for the Future Care designedand created by the Grail Association.

Eunice Muoz

Eunice Muoz was born inAmareleja in July 30, 1928.

She is a Portuguese referenceactress of theatre, television andPortuguese cinema andunanimously considered one ofthe best Portuguese actresses ofall time.


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Simone de Oliveira

Simone de Oliveira was born in Lisbonin 1938.

Singer, theatre and television actress.Belgian father and English mother, shegrew up in Lisbon. In 1969, she wonthe RTP Song Festival, with thegreatest success of her career

Desfolhada Portuguesa. She losther voice, an incident that lasted forabout two years.

In 2003, she publishes the bookNobody Knows where she recountsher fight against breast cancer.

Ana Salazar

Ana Salazar is a Portuguese fashiondesigner recognized internationally.

She was born on July 19, 1941 inLisbon, where she still lives. In theearly 70s in Portugal she revolvedshowing cutting-edge clothing atevents, "fashion events", as shetermed in unusual locations and toaudiences of thousands of people.

She was considered by national andinternational press as the fashionpioneer in Portugal.


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Rosa Mota

Rosa Maria Correia dos Santos Motawas born in Porto, in June 29, 1958,known only by Rosa Mota. She is aPortuguese athlete already out ofbusiness.

She became known mainly for herperformances in the marathon, being

considered by many as one of the bestrunners of the 20th century in thisspecialty. She won the Olympic medalNobre Guedes in 1981.

Joana Vasconcelos

Joana Vasconcelos was born in 1971.

She lives and works in Lisbon.She is the most prestigious Portugueseplastic artist of our time. In her plays,takes ownership of everyday objectsand decontextualizes them, reinventingthem.

Ana BacalhauAna Bacalhau is a Portuguesesinger, born in 1978, in Lisbon andgain popularity within the musicgroup Deolinda, of which she isthe singer and a co-founder.

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