The most important national&international equality defendres by Wiktoria Wolak

1. The most important
national & international
equality defenders
WOMEN WHO CHANGED THE WORLD

2. 1O.
❖ VALENTINA
TERESHKOVA
is a retired Russian cosmonaut and
politician. She is the first woman to
have flown in space, having been
selected from more than four hundred
applicants and five finalists to pilot
Vostok 6 on 16 June 1963. She
completed 48 orbits of the Earth in
her three days in space

3. 9.
❖ALICE PERRY
was the first woman in Ireland or
Great Britain to graduate with a
degree in engineering.

4. 8.
❖ JEANNETTE RANKIN
became the first woman to
hold national office in the
United States when she was
elected to the U.S. House of
Representatives in 1916 by
the state of Montana as a
member of the Republican
Party

5. 7.
❖MALALA YOUSAFZAI
is a Pakistani activist for female
education and the youngest-ever
Nobel Prize laureate

6. 6.
❖ FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE
was an English social reformer and
was an English social reformer and
statistician, and the founder of
modern nursing.

7. 5.
❖ AMELIA EARHART
was an American aviation
pioneer and author.Earhart was
the first female aviator to fly solo
across the Atlantic Ocean.i

8. 4.
❖ COCO CHANEL
was a French fashion designer and
businesswoman. She was the
founder and namesake of the Chanel
brand. Along with Paul Poiret,
Chanel was credited in the post-
World War I era with liberating
women from the constraints of the
"corseted silhouette" and
popularizing a sporty, casual chic as

9. 3.
❖ MARGARET THATCHER
was loved and hated equally for some of
her controversial policies but she never
gave up. She was known as the 'Iron lady'
for her uncompromising politics and
leadership style. From being a grocer's
daughter to graduating from Oxford
University to becoming a bannister, she
went on to becoming Britain's first and to
date, only female Prime Minister elected
in 1979 and the country's fifth longest
serving leader.

10. 2.
❖ MOTHER TERESA
was the founder of the Order of the
Missionaries of Charity, a Roman
Catholic congregation of women
dedicated to helping the poor.
Considered one of the greatest
humanitarians of the 20th century,
she was canonized as Saint Teresa of
Calcutta in 2016.

11. 1.
❖ MARIA
SKŁODOWSKA-CURIE
Polish physicist and chemist, was the
first person to have received two
Nobel Prizes. She was the first female
professor at the University of Paris
and the first lady to be enshrined in
France's national mausoleum, the
Paris Panthéon, all based on her own
merits.