Witness How Strong Women Are With These 52 Powerful And Life-Changing Photos From The History. Enough To Influence Each Of Us.

Inequality, judgment and oppression are happening in this world right after we open our eyes and get our existence acceptable to the society we’re clinging on. Most people who are subjected to this maltreatment are women, who are considered by many (especially by men) weak and incapable of doing something good for everyone’s welfare.

We women are traditionally treated as ‘something to own’ and are not given the right to act according to our will. History can attest to that reality but women disagree to that wrong label. We may not looked masculine but we’re capable of changing everything around us- men and children.

Nowadays, women are now becoming exceptional in all fields- great leaders in business and politics, inventors, activists, authors, and role models. Labeling us is no longer in effect and we strive hard to be someone who we can be- someone that is more powerful and capable to change the world. We’re now braver, are are looked upon which simply means that we are strong despite of the every trials we have in life.

Here are just some proofs that women from the history are also doing positive changes for the world, and still influences others to do the same:

1. Filipino guerilla, Captain Nieves Fernandez, shows a US soldier how she killed Japanese soldiers during their occupation. [1944]

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2. Komako Kimura, a prominent Japanese suffragist at a march in New York. [October 23, 1917]

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3. Kathrine Switzer becomes the first woman to run the Boston Marathon, despite attempts by the marathon organizer to stop her. [1967]

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4. Ellen O’Neal, one of the first professional female skaters. [1976]

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5. Parisian mothers shield their children from German sniper fire. [1944]

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6. Marina Ginesta, a 17-year-old communist militant, overlooking Barcelona during the Spanish Civil War. [1936]

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7. Anna Fisher, “the first mother in space” [1980s]

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8. Two women show uncovered legs in public for the first time in Toronto. [1937]

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9. Sabiha Gökçen of Turkey poses with her plane, in 1937 she became the first female fighter pilot.

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10. A Dutch woman refuses to leave her husband, a German soldier, after Allied soldiers capture him. She followed him into captivity. [1944]

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11. A mason high above Berlin. [c. 1900]

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12. A Swedish woman hitting a neo-Nazi protester with her handbag. The woman was reportedly a concentration camp survivor. [1985]

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13. 106-year old Armenian woman protecting her home with an AK-47. [1990]

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14. Volunteers learn how to fight fires at Pearl Harbor [c. 1941 – 1945]

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15. A captured Soviet soldier is given water by a Ukrainian woman after being captured. [1941]

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16. Afghan women at a public library before the Taliban seized power. [c. 1950s]

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17. A Muslim woman covers the yellow star of her Jewish neighbour with her veil to protect her from prosecution. Sarajevo, former Yugoslavia. [1941]

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18. Winnie the Welder. [1943]

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19. Girls deliver heavy blocks of ice after male workers were conscripted [1918]

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20. Margaret Bourke-White, a photographer, climbing the Chrysler Building. [1934]

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21. Railroad workers at lunch. Many were the wives and even mothers of the men who left for war. [1943]

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22. Women boxing on a roof in LA. [1933]

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23. Some of the first women sworn into US Marine Corps. [August, 1918]

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24. Female pilots leaving their B-17, “Pistol Packin’ Mama” [c. 1941 – 1945]

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25. A Lockheed employee working on a P-38 Lightning [Burbank, California, 1944]

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26. American nurses land in Normandy. [1944]

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27. Erika, a 15-year-old Hungarian fighter who fought for freedom against the Soviet Union. [October 1956]

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28. Leola N. King, America’s first female traffic cop, Washington D.C. [1918]

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29. A mother shows a picture of her son to returning prisoners of war in an attempt to find him. [Vienna, 1947]

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30. Annette Kellerman posing in a swimsuit that got her arrested for indecency. [c. 1907]

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31. Voting activist Annie Lumpkins at the Little Rock city jail. [1961]

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32. Female snipers of the Soviet 3rd Shock Army. [May 4, 1945]

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33. A Los Angeles Police Officer looks after an abandoned baby in the drawer of her desk. [1971]

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34. 18 year old French Résistance fighter, Simone Segouin, during the liberation of Paris. [19 August 1944]

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35. Photograph of a samurai warrior. [c. late 1800s]

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36. Members of the Hell’s Angels gang. [1973]

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37. The first women’s basketball team from Smith College [1902]

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38. Women’s league roller derby skaters in New York. [March 10, 1950]

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39. Women’s Liberation Coalition March, Detroit, Michigan. [1970]

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40. The iconic photo of a concerned pea-picker and mother of seven children during the Dust Bowl. [1936]

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41. Jeanne Manford marches with her gay son during a Pride Parade. [1972]

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42. A tattooist’s wife. [1907]

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43. A British sergeant training members of the ‘mum’s army’ Women’s Home Defence Corps during the Battle of Britain. [1940]

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44. A woman drinking tea in the aftermath of a German bombing raid during the London Blitz. [1940]

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45. Elspeth Beard, during her attempt to become the first Englishwoman to circumnavigate the world by motorcycle. [1980s]

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46. Gertrude Ederle becomes the first woman to swim across the English Channel. [1926]

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47. A woman suffrage activist protesting after “The Night of Terror.” [1917]

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48. A mother plays with her child on the beach. [c. 1950s]

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49. Aviator Amelia Earhart after becoming the first woman to fly an aircraft across the Atlantic Ocean. [1928]

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50. Afghan women studying medicine. [1962]

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51. A Red Cross nurse takes down the last words of a British soldier. [c. 1917]

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52. Sarla Thakral, 21 years old, the first Indian woman to earn a pilot license. [1936]

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