Amazing Women - International Women's Day _EN

Who was the first female Prime Minister in the world? She served in three separate terms between 1960 - 2000

She popularized the term "birth control", opened the first birth control clinic in the United States in 1916

A 30-year Apple veteran, she was voted in 2019 Fortune's 50 most powerful women in Business

Received Nobel Peace Prize for work undertaken in the struggle to overcome poverty & distress in 1979.

1st female African-American Engineer to work at NASA. Hint: She's a "Hidden Figure"

She was an American Aviator and the first woman who flew solo non-stop across the Atlantic in 1932

1st woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest & ascend the Seven Summits, climbing the highest peak on every continent.

A WWII veteran who became the first American transgender woman to attain fame for having sex reassignment surgery.

1st female scientist to win Nobel Prize, she discovered polonium & radium, championed the use of radiation in medicine

She is known for being the 1st and youngest woman in space, having flown a solo mission on the Vostok 6 on 16 June 1963.