Notable Women from History

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These women have changed history by being strong, brave, and human, regardless of social expectations for them.

Women railroad workers at lunch. Many were the wives and even mothers of the men who left for war, 1943.

Parisian mothers shield their children from German sniper fire, 1944.

Marina Ginesta, a 17-year-old communist militant, overlooking Barcelona during the Spanish Civil War, 1936.

18-year-old French Resistance fighter, Simone Segouin, during the liberation of Paris, August 19, 1944.

Some of the first women sworn into US Marine Corps., August, 1918.

Erika, a 15-year-old Hungarian fighter who fought for freedom against the Soviet Union, Oct. 1956.

Margaret Bourke-White, a photographer, climbing the Chrysler Building in New York City - 1934.

Winnie the Welder, 1943.

Female volunteers learn how to fight fires at Pearl Harbor - 1942

Anna Fisher, "the first mother in space", 1980s.

Two women show uncovered legs in public for the first time in Toronto, 1937.

Filipino guerilla, Captain Nieves Fernandez shows a US soldier how she killed Japanese soldiers during the occupation, 1944.

Sabiha Gökçen of Turkey poses with her plane, 1937. She became the first female fighter pilot.

Kathrine Switzer becomes the first woman to run the Boston Marathon, despite attempts by the marathon organizer to stop her, 1967.

Leola N, King, America's first female traffic cop, Washington D.C, 1918.

Girls deliver heavy blocks of ice after male workers were conscripted into the Military, 1918.

A mother shows a picture of her son to returning prisoners of war in an attempt to find him, Vienna, 1947.

A Dutch woman refuses to leave her husband, a German soldier, after Allied soldiers captured him. She followed him into captivity, 1944.

Women boxing on a roof in Los Angeles - 1933

Komako Kimura, a prominent Japanese suffragist at a march in New York, 23 Oct. 1917.

A woman drinking tea in the aftermath of a German bombing raid during the London Blitz, 1940.

A female mason high above Berlin, 1900.

Elspeth Beard, during her attempt to become the first Englishwoman to circumnavigate the world by motorcycle, ca. 1980s.

Gertrude Ederle becomes the first woman to swim across the English Chanel, 1926.

A woman suffrage activist protesting after "The Night of Terror", 1917.

A captured Soviet soldier is given water by a Ukrainian woman, 1941.

Female snipers of the Soviet 3rd Shock Army, May 4, 1945.

Aviator Amelia Earhart after becoming the first woman to fly an aircraft across the Atlantic Ocean, 1928.

Annette Kellerman posing in a swimsuit that got her arrested for indecency, 1907.

Afghan women studying medicine, 1962.

A female Lockheed employee working on a P-38 Lightning aircraft Burbank, California, 1944.

A British sergeant training members of the army Women's Home Defense Corps during the Battle of Britain, 1940.

The iconic photo of a mother of seven children during the American Dust Bowl, 1936.

Women's Liberation Coalition March, Detroit, Michigan, 1970. 

Voting activist Annie Lumpkins at the Little Rocky city jail, 1961.

Women's league roller derby skaters in New York - 1950

The first women's basketball team from Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts - 1902

A Los Angeles police officer looks after an abandoned baby in the drawer of her desk, 1971.

A tattooist's wife, 1907.

American nurses land in Normandy, 1944.

Photograph of a female samurai warrior, ca. late 1800s.

Female pilots leaving their B-17, "Pistol Packin' Mama", 1944.

Sarla Thakral, 21 years old, the first Indian woman to earn a pilot license, 1936.