Thread by @liliumx3

I'm on a mission to reclaim #IWD2023

Today I will be collating a list of amazing women we can celebrate today and every day, and adding them to this thread.

#women
#womeninhistory
#amazingwomen

Here's a starter...

Marie Curie was a Polish physicist and chemist who conducted pioneering research on radioactivity. She was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, the first person to win a Nobel Prize twice, and the only person to win a Nobel Prize in two scientific fields.

During the 1950s, U.S. society was largely segregated between Black & white citizens, including on public transport. On Dec. 1, 1955, seamstress Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white passenger on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama, for which she was arrested.

“We are here, not because we are lawbreakers; we are here in our efforts to be law-makers.” These immortal words by Emmeline Pankhurst in her autobiography encapsulated the British women’s suffrage movement in the late 19th & early 20th century.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the USA. Ginsburg promoted causes such as financial equality for women; equality in education; LGBTQ+ rights; civil rights for immigrants & undocumented people; rights for people with disabilities.

Harriet Tubman was born into slavery but found her freedom traveling alone via the Underground Railroad. She freed around 300 enslaved people in the yrs that followed. Later in life, she became a prominent voice in the abolitionist movement & fought for voting rights for women.

In 1922, Frida Kahlo was among only 35 girls to enroll in Mexico City's National Preparatory School, where she became involved in the school's political & artistic circles. Her political awakening included a passion for Mexican identity, which would greatly influence her art.

Ching Shih, who lived and pillaged during the Qing Dynasty, has been called the most successful pirate in history.

Her story is too long for a tweet:
rejectedprincesses.com/princesses/chi…

Margaret Hamilton, NASA’s lead software engineer for the Apollo, stands stands next to the code she wrote by hand that took humanity to the moon in 1969. 🚀🌙

Christine de Pizan, the author of the Book of the City of the Ladies, a fifteenth-century writer in France, was an early feminist who challenged her culture's stereotypes of women.

thoughtco.com/christine-de-p…

Eleanor Roosevelt’s tireless advocacy for social & economic justice made her one of the most admired women of the 20th century. In her 12yrs in the White House alongside her husband Franklin, she engaged in activism & public service far beyond what any first lady had ever done.

Irena Sendler is known mainly for her actions during WWII. As a member of the underground as well as the Zegota Council to Aid Jews she carried out - together with a group of female associates - the operation of rescuing Jewish children from the Warsaw ghetto.

In 1969, Maya Angelou published her most famous work, "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings." The fictionalised autobiography described her experience as a young Black woman in America. The book was hailed for its revolutionary approach, beginning Angelou's career.

Jeanne de Clisson (1300–1359), also known as Jeanne de Belleville and the Lioness of Brittany, was a French / Breton former noblewoman who became a privateer to avenge her husband after he was executed for treason by the French king. (1/2)

Jeanne de Clisson (cont'd)
She crossed the English Channel targeting French ships and often slaughtering their crew. It was her practice to leave at least one sailor alive to carry her message of vengeance to the King of France. (2/2)

Jane Goodall is an English primatologist and anthropologist. She is considered the world's foremost expert on chimpanzees. Jane first went to Gombe Stream National Park in Tanzania in 1960, where she witnessed human-like behaviours amongst chimpanzees, including armed conflict.

In 1948, Elizabeth Cady Stanton was a planner of the first women's rights convention in Seneca Falls, New York. Her work, the Declaration of Sentiments, was an "updated" version of the Declaration of Independence that demanded equal treatment for women.