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Frances Perkins (1880-1965)Frances Perkins was the first woman to serve in the Presidential Cabinet. She helped develop a policy for social security in 1935. Became active in the suffrage movement and attended protests and meetings advocating for women suffrage rights. She also had to defend herself in court to keep her maiden name after marriage.

Dorothy Lawrence (1896 - 1964)Dorothy Lawrence was the first woman to fight in English army. She disguised herself as a man to fight in World War I and left her job as a journalist. She borrowed uniforms from British soldiers and created travel permits to go to France.

Alexandra David-Néel (1868-1969)In the early 1900s, Alexandra David Neel made her way East into places that were inaccessible, such as Tibet, which was a highly obscure place to visit. She encouraged people to also travel East and ultimately, made her way to Tibet in order to learn about Buddhism.

Andrée de Jongh (1916-2007)Andrée de Jongh helped allied airmen escape from Nazis and was able to save 118 men in 24 missions. She established a Comet Escape Line to help soldiers and airmen escape from Belgium. She was sent to a concentration camp after she was captured by the Nazis, and survived. In 1985, she was made a countess by the King of Belgium.

Roberta “Bobbi” Gibb (1942-present)In the mid 1900s, women were deemed physiologically incapable of running marathons. Roberta Gibb was denied the opportunity to run the Boston Marathon because of this and in 1966, snuck into the race and competed alongside her male counterparts, beating half of them.

Amelia Bloomer (1818- 1894)Amelia Bloomer was a designer who activated to change women’s clothing to be more comfortable. She was a member of the Seneca Falls Women’s Rights Convention in 1848, and with her additional job as an editor, was able to create The Lily, a newspaper dedicated to women.

Beulah Henry (1887- 1973)Known as “Lady Edison”, Beulah Henry was able to improve Household Tools. She is not recognized for her achievements however, because unlike Edison, Henry was a female and did not have accessibility for technical tools to create her inventions, but was the mind behind hundreds of them.

Alice Coachman (1922-2014) Alice Coachman was a born athlete but could not train with white people because of discriminatory policies against African Americans. As a matter of a fact, she had to run barefoot, and used tree branches as high jumps. In 1948, Alice Coachman was the first black woman to earn an Olympic gold medal, and was honored by President S. Truman.

Zelda Fitzgerald (1900-1948)While most know Scott F. Fitzgerald as a composer of great literary works like The Great Gatsby, very few people know that he stole excerpts of her diary and put it into his books. In fact, Zelda Fitzgerald published many of her ideas including magazines, a play script, and an article but was never as famous as her husband got to be.

Rosalind Franklin (1920-1958)Rosalind Franklin, who worked with James Watson and Francis Crick to analyze the DNA structure, used an X-Ray to take a picture of the DNA double Helix, and Maurice Wilkins (another scientist) later used her picture, showing it to Watson and Crick. In 1958, all three male scientists were awarded a Nobel Peace Prize, though Franklin did not receive one.