International Women's Day

Amazing women who have changed the world

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Malala Yousafzai

ACTIVIST  Malala is a fearless human’s rights activist and proponent of female education. She was shot by a Taliban gunman at just 15 years old but lived to tell her heroic story. She received the Nobel Peace Prize by age 17, making her the youngest recipient to date.

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Emma Watson

ACTRESS  Watson has done far more than fend off evil wizards in Harry Potter. The British actress, model, and activist is a UN Women Goodwill ambassador and has an influential footprint within the sustainable fashion industry 

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Ashley Graham

PLUS-SIZE MODEL Hailing from a small town in Lincoln, Nebraska, Graham has made a name for herself in the modeling industry — she's paving the way for body positivity through her vivacious confidence and healthy curve

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Beyoncé 

QUEEN BEE  Throughout her career, Beyoncé has embodied fierce femininity at its finest. She has sold over 100 million records, won 22 Grammy Awards 

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Emma Gonzalez 

GUN-CONTROL ACTIVIST Emma is a survivor of the deadly February 2018 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. Since the shooting, Gonzalez has been a force of resistance through her impassioned speeches and social media presence, aiming for stricter gun laws and proactive change. 

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Serena Williams 

TENNIS CHAMPION Serena Williams is a professional tennis player who has been ranked No. 1 in the world on eight  separate occasions. 

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Mia Hamm 

SOCCER CHAMPION She has scored more international goals than any other soccer player and led a generation of adolescent girls to become passionate  about sports.

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Mary Richard 

CAREER GAL Mary Tyler Moore's character — a single working woman in her 30s who wasn't desperate to settle down with a fella — offered ambitious American women a much-needed role model.

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Wendy Kopp 

FOUNDER, TEACH FOR AMERICA It was her senior thesis at Princeton — a plan to create a corps of desperately needed teachers for schools in low-income neighborhoods. Twenty years later, Teach for America has trained more than 24,000 teachers and reached three million students.

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Michelle Obama

FIRST AFRICAN AMERICAN  FIRST LADY Before she was a First Lady, she was a lawyer and Mom in Chief. During Barack Obama's time in office, she led several meaningful initiatives, most notably her Let's Move! campaign to fight childhood obesity.  

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Maya Lin

ARTIST AND ARCHITECT She was a 21-year-old undergraduate at Yale when she won a competition to design her most famous work, the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C.  

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Diana, Princess of Wales

ROYAL AND HUMANITARIAN Her legacy of charm and charity endures, especially her campaigns for acceptance of AIDS victims and against land mines.

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Ellen DeGeneres 

MEDIA MOGUL AND  LGBTQIA ACTIVIST DeGeneres is a multimedia genius, having mastered film, TV, voice-acting, and stand-up comedy. She was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2016

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Hillary Rodham Clinton 

SECRETARY OF STATE,  As a presidential candidate in 2008 and the Democratic presidential nominee in 2016, Hillary won more primaries and gathered more delegates than any woman in  U.S. history.  

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Madonna  

SINGER Commonly referred to as the "Queen of Pop," Madonna is well-known for producing innovative, boundary-pushing music. Her top-of-the-chart hits have spanned across an impressive four decades.

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Dorothy Hamill  

ICE SKATING CHAMPION After winning Olympic gold in 1976, she became one of the first female athletes to land a million-dollar contract (with the Ice Capades).

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Jacqueline Kennedy Onassi

FORMER FIRST LADY We admired her style when she was First Lady, her grace under pressure when tragedy struck, her dedication to motherhood, and how she reinvented herself as a successful book editor

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Oprah Winfrey 

QUEEN OF ALL MEDIA Where do we start? Because she uses TV to help us live our best lives; because her book club created millions of readers; because she's a benevolent billionaire, giving gazillions to charity

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Aung San Suu Kyi 

LEADER OF BURMA'S  DEMOCRACY MOVEMENT This Nobel Peace Prize winner has chosen to remain under house arrest for most of the past two decades, suffering hardship rather than leave her country and abandon her struggling people.

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Janet Guthrie

RACE CAR DRIVER Guthrie was the first woman to qualify and compete in the Daytona 500 in 1976 and the Indianapolis 500 in 1977. She is tied with Danica Patrick for the best finish by a woman in a top-tier NASCAR race.

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Sally Ride 

ASTRONAUT AND ASTROPHYSICIST The first American woman — finally — in space, 1983. Overall, Ride was the third woman in space after USSR. At the age of 32, she remains the youngest American astronaut to have traveled to space.

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Kalpana Chawla

Chawla became the first woman of Indian descent to fly in space. The shuttle orbited around Earth 252 times in a little over two weeks. Her second—and last—trip to space came in 2003

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