1. clara zetkin

1 years ago, in 191, clara zetkin, a pioneer of German women's movement, proposed to set up "International Women's Day" to commemorate the general strike held by Chicago women on March 8, 199, which was the origin of "International Women's Day". In the past 1 years, women all over the world have made unremitting efforts for peace, equality and development, and have never stopped; Over the past 1 years, women all over the world have made great achievements in politics, diplomacy, science, culture and education, which have promoted the development of human civilization.

2. susan sontag

susan sontag was born in new york, USA in 1933 and died in 24. Famous writers, critics and critics, together with Simone Fubowa, are known as "the most important female intellectuals in the contemporary West" in the cultural circle, and have written works such as On Photography and About the Pain of Others.

3. Elizabeth Blackburn

On October 5th, 29, Karolinska Medical College in Sweden announced that it would award the 29 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine to American scientists Elizabeth Blackburn, Carol Grader and Jack Szostak for "discovering how telomeres and telomerase protect chromosomes". Blackburn and Grader won the prize at the same time, which once again proved the importance of women in the world's cutting-edge scientific research field.

4. Madame Curie

French Polish, chemist and physicist, and pioneer of radioactive research, Madame Curie was born in Poland on November 7, 1867 as Marie Skorodovska, and later moved to France. He died on July 4, 1934.

Madame Curie is one of the most influential women in the world. Madame Curie wrote many unsurpassed miracles in her life: she was the first female professor at the University of Paris, the first female academician of the French Academy of Sciences, and was also employed as an academician of 15 other countries. She has received 24 prizes and medals from 7 countries and held 14 honorary positions in 25 countries. She is the first person in the world to win two Nobel Prizes by herself. She shared a Nobel Prize with her husband pierre curie. Her eldest daughter, Elena, and a nuclear physicist also won a Nobel Prize.

5. vigdis finnbogadottir.

Finnbogadottir, born in Reykjavik on April 15th, 193, studied French, English and drama literature at the University of Grenoble in France, the University of Paris, the University of Iceland, the University of Sweden and the University of Copenhagen in Denmark, and worked as a French teacher in middle schools, universities and TV stations for a long time. In June, 198, she was elected as the fourth president of Iceland, the first elected person in the world.

6. Rosa parks.

Rosa parks was born in a black family in Alabama on February 4th, 1913. On December 1, 1955, she refused to give up her seat to a white man on a bus, which started the modern civil rights movement in the United States.

At that time, Alabama implemented Jim Crow Act, which was a racist law that segregated and suppressed blacks. It stipulates that blacks can't sit with whites when they take buses, go to restaurants and other public facilities. Because there were many people in the car at that time, the driver asked Rosa parks to give up her seat to a white man, but she refused. Since then, this seemingly insignificant "rebellious behavior" has developed into a civil rights movement that changed the course of American history. Rosa parks himself recalled: "That day, as usual, the only thing that made it important was the unity of all blacks." Detroit Mayor kilpatrick commented: "She stood up by sitting down."

7. Larissa Latinina.

Larissa Latinina, a former Soviet gymnast, was born in 1934. She is by far the female athlete who has won the most gold medals in the Summer Olympics. She won nine gold medals in the three Olympic Games in 1956, 196 and 1964.

8. Simon Beauvoir.

simone beauvoir, born in 198, is one of the founders of the world feminist movement and Jean-Paul Sartre's lifelong companion. Beauvoir is an existentialist writer, and her most important work, The Second Sex, expounds the important viewpoint that "the gender characteristics of men and women are caused by society", which has a great influence on the feminist movement after the 196s. Beauvoir died in Paris in 1986 and was buried with Sartre after her death.

9. Audrey Hepburn

Audrey Hepburn, a famous American movie star, was born in May 1929. Hepburn has created a series of touching screen images, especially Roman Holiday, which co-starred with Gregory Peck, became a screen classic, captivated hundreds of millions of viewers and won the Oscar for Best Actress. Hepburn worked nonstop for the cause of children's relief after retiring from film, and became a friendly ambassador of UNICEF until his death. On January 2th, 1993, Hepburn died of colon cancer at the age of 63.

1. jane goodall

jane goodall, a famous British biologist, animal behaviorist and animal conservationist, was born in London, England in 1934 and devoted his life to studying the living conditions of wild chimpanzees in Africa. From the age of 26, she went deep into the jungle of Tanzania and lived with chimpanzees for a long time. In her decades-long field research, she revealed many previously unknown secrets of the chimpanzee community. For example, she found that chimpanzees can choose and process tools, there will be wars and killings between different groups, there is a strict hierarchy in the community, and female orangutans will feed and raise their cubs like humans. All these studies have introduced brand-new materials for anthropology and animal behavior research.

11. Vetrana Savicka.

On July 3th, 1984, astronaut Svetlana Savicka returned to the ground and walked out of the capsule of Soyuz T-12, ending her 13-day space flight. In this flight, Savicka became the first woman to walk in space, and she was also the first woman to travel in space twice.

12. May Jemison.

May Jemison is the first black female astronaut in the United States. In 1987, she was selected by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration for space flight training. In September 1992, she completed more than 19 hours of space flight on the space shuttle Endeavour.