30+ Badass Women That Changed The World We Live In Today

Amelia Earhart Was The First Female Aviator To Fly Solo Across The Atlantic Ocean (1928)

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Maud Stevens Wagner Was The First Known Female Tattoo Artist In The United States (1907)

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Margaret Heafield Was A Director Of Software Engineering For Nasa’s Apollo Space Program (1969)

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Kathrine Switzer Was The First Woman To Run The Boston Marathon (1967). When Organizer Jock Semple Realised A Woman Was Running He Tried To Tackle Her

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Leola N. King, America’s First Female Traffic Cop, Washington D.C. (1918)

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A Female Lockheed Employee Works On One In Burbank, California (1944)

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Smith College Class Of 1902 Basketball Team – Senda Berenson introduced and adapted the rules for women’s basketball

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NASA Astronaut Anna Lee Fisher Became The First Mother In Space (1984)

A 106-year-old Woman Who Protected Her Home With A Rifle, In Armenia (1990)

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Russia-born Valentina Tereshkova Became The First Woman In Space Aboard The Vostok 6 (1963)

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Anne Frank Was A Jewish Diarist And Writer

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Marie Curie Was A Polish-Born French Physicist And Chemist Famous For Her Work On Radioactivity And Twice A Winner Of The Nobel Prize

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Annette Kellerman Promoted Women’s Right To Wear A Fitted One-Piece Bathing Suit (1907). She Was Arrested For Indecency

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One Of The Onna-Bugeisha, Female Samurai Warrior Of The Upper Bushi (Samurai), Class In Feudal Japan (Late 1800’s)

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Girls Deliver Ice. Heavy Work That Formerly Belonged To Men Only Is Being Done By Girls (16 September, 1918)

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