international women's day

1. INTERNATIONAL
WOMEN’S DAY

2. FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE
She was born on 12 May ,1820, in Florence.
She died on 13 August 1910, in London.
She was a nurse and a writer, but she also stood
out in mathematics.
She founded the first nursing school. Her work
was the inspiration for Henri Dunant , the founder
of the red cross. She reached the fame thanks to
the work that she did in the Crimean War.
In 1907 she was the first woman to get the order
of Merit of the United kingdom.

3. MARY QUANT
Mary Quant was born in London in 1934. She
was a famous fashion designer and a British
icon. She became famous in 1960 with the
invention of the mini skirt. This woman studied
art at Goldsmiths College. After she started her
career she invented the mini skirt, which is the
garment most associated with Quant, although
many people think that this garment was
invented by Marit Allen.

4. Aung Sang Suu Kyi
Aung Sang Suu kyi was born in Rangun (Yangon),
Birmania, on 19 June 1945; nowadays she is 71 years
old. She is a defender of the human rights and a
defender of democracy in her country.
She is the president of the National League for
Democracy in Myanmar She was detained under house
arrest for nearly 20 years. When she was released on
13th November 2010, she became one of the world’s
most prominent political prisoners.She received the
Nobel Peace prize in 1991.

5. EVA PERÓN
1919 she was born on 7th May
1943 she founded the ARA
1945 she married Juan Domingo Perón
1946 she participated in an election campaign
1947 women’s suffrage
1949 she founded the female Peronist Party
1951 she was candidate for vice president
1952 she died of cancer

6. Susan B. Anthony
She was born on 15 February 1820, in Adams,
Massachusetts
She died on 13 March 1906, in Rochester, New York.
She was a leading feminist in the American civil rights
movements. She played a great role in the struggle for
women’s rights and made thousands of trips to give
speeches about her ideas.

7. Golda Meir
She was born in Kiev, Ucrania on 3rd
May 1898 and she died of cancer in
Jerusalem on 6th December 1978, when
she was 80 years old. She was the first
woman minister of Israel from 1969 to
1974 when she decided to resign. Golda
has been described as the "Iron Lady" of
Israel's politics because of her
leadership and her intransigent political
ideas. After that she let her position to
Isaac Rabin.

8. ROSA PARKS
Rosa Louise McCauley (when she
married, Rosa Parks) was born in
Alabama on 4th February 1913 and
she died on 24th October 2005. She
was an important woman because
she disobeyed the order of a white
man that told her to stand up in the
bus and sit at the rear of the bus and
let him sit there. After that she was
convicted to go to jail.

9. MARIE CURIE
Marie Curie (7 November 1867-
4 July 1934) was an important
Polish woman. She studied physics
and chemistry. She was the first
woman to win a Nobel prize. She
was also the first woman to become
a professor in the University of
Paris.
She married Pierre Curie,
who had also studied
physics. Her achievements
included the development
of the theory of
radioactivity, techniques for
isolating radioactive
isotopes and she
discovered two elements:
polonium and radium.

10. INDIRA GANDHI
Indira Gandhi (19 November 1917- 31 October
1984) was a very important 20th century
stateswoman, and, to date, the only female
Prime Minister of India. She studied in the
universities of Visva-Bharati and Oxford and
she fought for independence in her country,
collaborating with Gandhi.
In 1984 she started fighting against sikh
terrorism, but she was killed by two of her
bodyguards, who were followers of Sikhism.

11. Mother Teresa
Mother Teresa was born on 26 August 1910 and
she died on 5 September 1997. She was also
known as Blessed Teresa of Calcutta. She was an
Albanian Roman Catholic religious sister and
missionary. She was born in modern Macedonia..
After having lived in Macedonia for eighteen
years, she moved to Ireland and then to India,
where she lived for most of her life. She founded
the Missionaries of Charity, a religious institution
which in 2012 had 4500 sisters over 133 countries.
She helped people who suffered illnesses such as
leprosy and tuberculosis.

12. Benazir Bhutto
She was born on 21st June 1953 in Pakistán and
she died of a physical trauma on 27th December 2007 in
Pakistán.
She is so famous because she was the first prime minister in
a muslim country between the years 1998-1990 and 1993-
1996. She resigned because
she was accused of corruption by the king at that time,
Ishaq Khan, and later by Farooq Leghari. Later
she went into exile in Dubai in 1999 .
In 2007 she returned to Pakistan and on 27th December, she
was assassinated in a bombing in Rawalpindi.

13. She was an American aviation pioneer and author. Earhart
was the first female aviator to fly solo across the Atlantic
Ocean.She received the U.S. Dis Flying Cross for this
record.She set many other records, wrote best-selling
books about her flying experiences and was instrumental in
the formation of The Ninety-Nines, an organization for
female pilots.
Amelia Earhart was born in Atchison, Kansas. She was
hospitalized during two months because of the Spanish flu
pandemic. She was very ill, suffering from pneumonia and
maxillary sinusitis.
In 1919 Earhart prepared to enter Smith College.She quit a
year later to be with her parents, who had reunited in
California.
She went to the airfield where Frank Hawks gave her a ride
that would forever change Earhart's life.During an attempt to
make a circumnavigational flight of the globe in 1937,
Earhart disappeared over the central pacific ocean.
Amelia Earhart

14. COCO CHANEL
19 August 1883-10 January 1971 (France)
She was a French fashion designer who
revolutionized fashion and the world of haute
couture in interwar times. Breaking with the
elegance of the Belle Epoque, her casual and
comfortable style freed the female body corsets
and bulky ornaments and so it expressed the
freedom and equality of women of the XX
century.