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WOMEN PIONEERS

achievements, inventions or discoveries

Annie Oakley (Phoebe Ann Moses) was born on August 13, 1860 and she died on November 3, 1926. She was an American shooter who starred in Buffalo Bill's Wild West show. Oakley developed hunting skills as a child to provide for her family in western Ohio. At the age of 15, she won a shooting contest against a shooter with a lot of experience, Frank E. Butler, whom she later married in 1876. The pair joined Buffalo Bill in 1885, performing in Europe. The audience were impressed to see her shooting out a cigar from her husband's hand and so many other tricks! She earned more money than anyone except Buffalo Bill. With this and some other ways, she showed people around the world that women were able to handle weapons as well as the shooters. She is a woman pioneer, as battles for gender equality were very difficult to be done at that time, as they are today.

Susan B. Anthony (Susan Anthony) was born on February 15, 1820 and died on March 13, 1906. She was a women's rights activist who played a big part in the women's movement to fight for the vote. Born into a Quaker family, committed to social equality, she collected anti-slavery petitions at the age of 17. In 1856, she she took part in the resistance at New York for the American Anti-Slavery Society. Anthony founded the National Woman Suffrage Association in 1869 with activist Elizabeth Cady Stanton. At this time, the two created and produced The Revolution, a weekly publication for women's rights under the American Equal Rights Association (AERA).Along with Elizabeth Cady Stanton, she traveled around America giving speeches of women's right about voting. She was a fighter of human and women's rights and equal pay for equal work.

Anna Sutherland Bissell was born on December 2, 1846 and died on November 8, 1934. She was a Canadian-American businesswoman who was the first woman CEO in the United States as the executive board member of the Bissell Corporation, known for its carpet sweepers and vacuum cleaners. Although it was her husband who invented the carpet-sweeping machine in 1876 and founded Bissell, Anna Bissell became the CEO of the company in 1889, making her the first female CEO in America. After her husband’s death, Anna was the one who took the sweepers to the next level with aggressive marketing. She travelled around the country selling sweepers and making deals with major retailers to carry the Bissell brand. Eventually, she took the brand international. She was also one of the first company heads to give workers pension plans and workers’ compensation.

Susan La Flesche Picotte was born on June 17, 1865 and died on September 18, 1915, she was an American physician and reformer in the late 19th century. She is respected as one of the first women to earn a medical degree. She dealt with public health and giving land grants to members of the Omaha tribe. She graduated from the three-year program in only two years (1889), becoming the first Native American to receive a medical degree.

This Pakistani girl started to take on the Taliban when she was 11 years old. When the group began seizing her hometown and attacking girls’ schools, she, then a student at the school her father founded, gave a speech promoting her and all women’s right to an education. She used a fake name to blog for the BBC in 2009, talking about living with Taliban She continued to speak, even though this almost cost her her life. In 2012, the 15-year-old was on her way home from school when a masked gunman boarded the bus and shot her in the head. She survived, and after a coma and multiple surgeries, she returned to school in England, published her first book, "I Am Malala", and founded the Malala Fund a year later. In 2014, she became the youngest person to win the Nobel Peace Prize.

"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter"

Martin Luther King

A lot of women made a revolution about woman rights, medicine and other sections. But it didn't end then, we should be active and fight about things that matter.