International Women's day

INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY

FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

She was born on 12 May ,1820, in Florence.She died on 13 August 1910, in London.She was a nurse and a writer, but she also stood out in mathematics.She founded the first nursing school. Her work was the inspiration for Henri Dunant , the founder of the red cross. She reached the fame thanks to the work that she did in the Crimean War.

In 1907 she was the first woman to get the order of Merit of the United kingdom.

MARY QUANTMary Quant was born in London in 1934. She was a famous fashion designer and a British icon. She became famous in 1960 with the invention of the mini skirt. This woman studied art at Goldsmiths College. After she started her career she invented the mini skirt, which is the garment most associated with Quant, although many people think that this garment was invented by Marit Allen.

Aung Sang Suu KyiAung Sang Suu kyi was born in Rangun (Yangon), Birmania, on 19 June 1945; nowadays she is 71 years old. She is a defender of the human rights and a defender of democracy in her country.

She is the president of the National League for Democracy in Myanmar She was detained under house arrest for nearly 20 years. When she was released on 13th November 2010, she became one of the world’s most prominent political prisoners.She received the Nobel Peace prize in 1991.

EVA PERÓN1919 she was born on 7th May

1943 she founded the ARA

1945 she married Juan Domingo Perón

1946 she participated in an election campaign

1947 women’s suffrage

1949 she founded the female Peronist Party

1951 she was candidate for vice president

1952 she died of cancer

Susan B. Anthony

She was born on 15 February 1820, in Adams, Massachusetts

She died on 13 March 1906, in Rochester, New York.

She was a leading feminist in the American civil rights movements. She played a great role in the struggle for women’s rights and made thousands of trips to give speeches about her ideas.

Golda Meir

She was born in Kiev, Ucrania on 3rd May 1898 and she died of cancer in Jerusalem on 6th December 1978, when she was 80 years old. She was the first woman minister of Israel from 1969 to 1974 when she decided to resign. Golda has been described as the "Iron Lady" of Israel's politics because of her leadership and her intransigent political ideas. After that she let her position to Isaac Rabin.

ROSA PARKS

Rosa Louise McCauley (when she married, Rosa Parks) was born in Alabama on 4th February 1913 and she died on 24th October 2005. She was an important woman because she disobeyed the order of a white man that told her to stand up in the bus and sit at the rear of the bus and let him sit there. After that she was convicted to go to jail.

MARIE CURIEMarie Curie (7 November 1867- 4 July 1934) was an important Polish woman. She studied physics and chemistry. She was the first woman to win a Nobel prize. She was also the first woman to become a professor in the University of Paris.

She married Pierre Curie, who had also studied physics. Her achievements included the development of the theory of radioactivity, techniques for isolating radioactive isotopes and she discovered two elements: polonium and radium.

INDIRA GANDHIIndira Gandhi (19 November 1917- 31 October1984) was a very important 20th centurystateswoman, and, to date, the only female Prime Minister of India. She studied in the universities of Visva-Bharati and Oxford andshe fought for independence in her country,collaborating with Gandhi.In 1984 she started fighting against sikh terrorism, but she was killed by two of herbodyguards, who were followers of Sikhism.

Mother Teresa

Mother Teresa was born on 26 August 1910 and she died on 5 September 1997. She was also known as Blessed Teresa of Calcutta. She was an Albanian Roman Catholic religious sister and missionary. She was born in modern Macedonia.. After having lived in Macedonia for eighteen years, she moved to Ireland and then to India, where she lived for most of her life. She founded the Missionaries of Charity, a religious institution which in 2012 had 4500 sisters over 133 countries. She helped people who suffered illnesses such as leprosy and tuberculosis.

Benazir BhuttoShe was born on 21st June 1953 in Pakistán and she died of a physical trauma on 27th December 2007 in Pakistán.

She is so famous because she was the first prime minister in a muslim country between the years 1998-1990 and 1993-1996. She resigned because she was accused of corruption by the king at that time, Ishaq Khan, and later by Farooq Leghari. Later she went into exile in Dubai in 1999 .

In 2007 she returned to Pakistan and on 27th December, she was assassinated in a bombing in Rawalpindi.

She was an American aviation pioneer and author. Earhart was the first female aviator to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean.She received the U.S. Dis Flying Cross for this record.She set many other records, wrote best-selling books about her flying experiences and was instrumental in the formation of The Ninety-Nines, an organization for female pilots.Amelia Earhart was born in Atchison, Kansas. She was hospitalized during two months because of the Spanish flu pandemic. She was very ill, suffering from pneumonia and maxillary sinusitis.In 1919 Earhart prepared to enter Smith College.She quit a year later to be with her parents, who had reunited in California.She went to the airfield where Frank Hawks gave her a ride that would forever change Earhart's life.During an attempt to make a circumnavigational flight of the globe in 1937, Earhart disappeared over the central pacific ocean.

Amelia Earhart

COCO CHANEL19 August 1883-10 January 1971 (France)

She was a French fashion designer who revolutionized fashion and the world of haute couture in interwar times. Breaking with the elegance of the Belle Epoque, her casual and comfortable style freed the female body corsets and bulky ornaments and so it expressed the freedom and equality of women

of the XX century.