78 Badass Women That Changed The World We Live In Today

So many of the social life's aspects have changed for women in the years. Starting with the right for education and ending with gender equality - all of this didn't happen overnight, and many badass women had to sacrifice their personal lives for a greater cause. Women's Equality Day celebrated on August 26th in the US, commemorates the 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution, granting women the right to vote. It was certified in 1920, despite being introduced many years earlier in 1878, and since 1972, every president has published a proclamation for Women's Equality Day. Only because of the strong women in history we have reached this point in our society.

Starting from female Samurais in the early 1800s and ending with Stephanie Kwolek, who invented Kevlar (yes, a woman invented that!) this list of women who changed the world will shed some light on the 'weaker' gender. And without some of these pioneers, we wouldn't be this advanced in such spheres as neuro-surgeries, chemistry, and even programming.

Scroll down and take a look at our list of famous women in history. And, ladies, you might get inspired by these women in history to reach for your goals, no matter how impossible they might seem.

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

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78 Badass Women That Changed The World We Live In Today

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

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

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

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

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

These Women Were Firefighters At Pearl Harbor (1941)

Komako Kimura, A Prominent Japanese Suffragist Marched On Fifth Avenue In New York City Demanding The Right To Vote (27 October, 1917)

Eliza Leonida Zamfirescu, The First Woman Engineer In The World

Rosa Louise Mccauley Parks - Civil Rights Activist

Sofia Ionescu-ogrezeanu (25 April 1920 – 21 March 2008) Was A Romanian Neurosurgeon And Is Cons

Anne Frank Was A Jewish Diarist And Writer

Jane Goodall, Leading Primatologist And Conservationalist

Ana Aslan (romania) - She Is Considered To Be A Pioneer Of Gerontology And Geriatrics.

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

Mary Winsor Holding Suffrage Prisoners Banner In Washington D.C. (1917)

Sarla Thakral Was First Indian Woman To Fly. She Earned An Aviation Pilot License In 1936 At The Age Of 21 And Flew A Gypsy Moth Solo

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

Muslim Woman Covers The Yellow Star Of Her Jewish Neighbor With Her Veil (1941)

Bertha Von Suttner - First Woman Peace Activist And First Woman To Be Awarded Nobel Peace Prize

Suu Kyi (burma) Was Under House Arrest For 15 Yrs For Her Pre-democracy Campaigning.

Taramon Bibi Is One Of The Two Female Freedom Fighters In Bangladesh

Voting Activist Annie Lumpkins At The Little Rock City Jail (10 July, 1961)

The First European Woman Ever To Obtain A License And A Phd In Law From The University Of Paris

Ftima El Fihria The Founder Of The First University In The World Fes Morocco

Stephanie Kwolek, Inventor Of Kevlar

Gertrude Caroline Ederle Became The First Woman To Swim Across The English Channel (1926)

Florence Nightingale:1st Nurse To Teach Basic Sanitation Betwn Patients. 1820-1910 Lady W/ Lamp

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

Maria Teresa De Filippis, First Female Formula 1 Driver (1958)

Ellen O'neal, One Of The Greatests Female Freestyle Skateboarders In The World (1970)

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

Ada Lovelace - First Programmer In History

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

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

Milunka Savić Was A Serbian War Heroine Who May Be The Most-decorated Female Combatant Ever.

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

Angela Davis (b. January 26, 1944), American Political Activist, Scholar, Author & Feminist.

Kate Sheppard, Leader Of Womens Suffrage In New Zealand, The 1st Country To Give Women The Vote

Hattie Larlham Pioneered Specialized Care For Developmentally Disabled Children.

Claudette Colvin - The First Woman To Refuse To Give Up Her Seat On A Montgomery, Al Bus

Billie Jean King. Us Tennis Legend & Became The First Prominent Female Athlete To Come Out.

Mileva Maric, Serbian Physicist, Einsteins Wife. Worthy "his" Nobel Prize.

Sybil Ludington, Alerted Colonial Forces Of The British, Riding Twice The Distance Of Revere.

Eliska Junkova: Czech Automobile Racer In Her Bugatti. One Of The Greatest Grand Prix Drivers.

Political Activist Dr. Wangari Maathai Founded The Green Belt Movement, 1977.

Among The Prisoners Taken On Walcheren Was This Dutch Woman With Her Husband, A German Solder, Whom She Refused To Leave (1944)

Rachl Carson. Author Of "silent Spring" (1962) And Mother Of The Enviromental Movement

Irena Sendlerowa - Woman Who Smuggled Approximately 2,500 Jewish Children Out Of The Warsaw Ghett

Julia Morgan, Architect, 1st Woman To Graduate From The Ecole Des Beaux Arts De Paris

Ada Lovelace: Wrote The First Algorithm Designed For Computation In 1840. First Female Coder

Smaranda Brăescu, Romanian parachuting Pioneer, Former Multiple World Record Holder (1932)

Henryka Krzywonos - First Stopped Her Tram In 1980 To Start An Anti-communist Strike In Poland

Ra. Kartini, B 1879, The First Pioneer For Education For Indonesian Girls And Women's Rights

Commander Eileen Collins, First Female Space Shuttle Pilot And Mission Commander.

Women Workers Employed As Wipers In The Roundhouse Having Lunch In Their Rest Room (1943)

This Woman Worker Pushes Back Her Helmet During A Moment's Pause From Her Welding Job At The Richmond Shipyard In California (1943)

Muazzez Ilmiye Cig - Turkish Archaeologist, Assyriologist And Sumerologist (born 1914)

A Women's Liberation March In Washington, D.C. (1970)

Marie Curie, Polish-french Physicist And Chemist. 1st Person To Receive 2 Nobel Prizes.

Sabiha Gokcen - First Turkish Female Combat Pilot And A World Pioneer, Aged 23 (1936)

Irom Sharmila,activist From Manipur(india), On Hunger Strike Since 2000 Against Armed Forcesact

Khertek Anchimaa-toka, First Elected Female Head Of State In The Modern World, In 1940.

Mother Teresa

Ayesha Farooq, The First War-ready Fighter Pilot Of Pakistan.

Rita Levi-montalcini - Italian Nobel Laureate Honoured For Her Work In Neurobiology

Ida B Wells - Prominent Journalist Who Reported On Lynchings In The United Sates.

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Queen Tamar Of Georgia

Simone De Beauvoir, French Feminist, Who Wrote In 1971 "the Manifesto Of The 343"

Titled 'mother Of The Nation',fatima Jinnah Also Struggled For The Pakistan Movement.

Winnie Mandela -south African Activist And Politician

Irena Sendlerowa - Woman Who Smuggled Approximately 2,500 Jewish Children Out Of The Warsaw Ghett

This 64-years Young Lady Had Swum Unassisted 180 Kilometers In The Ocean Without A Shark Cage.

Christina Noble:irish Children's Rights Campaigner&founder Of Christina Noble Foundation.

Countess Constance Markievicz: Irish Revolutionary Nationalist, Suffragette & Socialist.

Maria Edgeworth (1768-1849) One Of The First [irish] Woman Realist Novelist In Europe.

Hanna Sheehy-skeffington (1877-1946) Irish Suffragette, Socialist And Nationalist.

Rosalind Franklin

Edvinas Jovaišas