This document highlights six pioneering women from history who overcame obstacles to pursue their dreams and advance gender equality: Amelia Earhart, the first female aviator to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean; Marie Curie, the first woman to win a Nobel Prize and the only woman to win the Nobel Prize twice; Coco Chanel, a famous French fashion designer who revolutionized women's clothing; Rosa Parks, an American civil rights activist who helped end racial segregation on public buses; Rita Levi-Montalcini, an Italian neurologist who won the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine; and Valentina Tereshkova, the first woman to fly in space, launching aboard Vostok 6