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Women who Changed the World
Throughout history, in every culture around the world, extraordinary women have pushed society to think bigger, move forward and create. Thanks to each of them, women and girls all over the world are able to live with fewer restraints and bigger dreams.
Here we have some example of these women and their main achievements. -
Simone de Beauvoir
Simone de Beauvoir was a French philosopher, public intellectual, feminist and social theorist.
She wrote novels, essays, biographies, an autobiography in several volumes, and monographs on philosophy, politics, and social issues. She is now best known for her metaphysical novels, including She Came to Stay and The Mandarins, and for her 1949 treatise The Second Sex, a detailed analysis of women's oppression and a foundational tract of contemporary feminism. -
Mother Theresa
Mother Theresa was an Albanian-Indian Roman Catholic nun and missionary.
She founded the Missionaries of Charity in Calcutta, India in 1950. For over 45 years she ministered to the poor, sick, orphaned, and dying.
She was internationally renowned as a humanitarian and advocate for the poor and helpless.
She won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979 and India's highest civilian honour, the Bharat Ratna, in 1980 for her humanitarian work. -
Rosa Park
Rosa Parks was an African-American civil rights activist.
On December 1, 1955 in Montgomery, Alabama, Parks refused to give up her seat to make room for a white passenger.
Parks' act of defiance became an important symbol of the modern Civil Rights Movement and Parks became an international icon of resistance to racial segregation. -
Indira Gandhi
Indira Gandhi was an Indian politician and the third Prime Minister of the Republic of India until her assassination in 1984.
India's only female prime minister to date, she remains the world's longest serving female Prime Minister as of 2011.
She was also the only Indian Prime Minister to have declared an emergency in order to 'rule by decree' and the only Indian Prime Minister to have been imprisoned. -
Benazir Bhutto
Benazir Bhutto was a Pakistani politician who chaired the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP).
Bhutto studied at Harvard University and the University of Oxford.
Bhutto was the first woman elected to lead a Muslim state, having twice been Prime Minister of Pakistan (1988–1990; 1993–1996)
She was assassinated on 27 December 2007.
Posthumously, she came to be regarded as an icon for women's rights due to her political success in a male-dominated society.