HAPPY INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY!

There is no force equal to a woman determined to rise!.

8 th of March. A strike began in 1917, started by Russian women. 4 days into the strike, the Russian tsar granted women the right to vote . The strike began on 8 March and this became the date that International Women's Day is celebrated ..

Some of the most influential women in history!.

Jane Austen (1775 – 1817). Jane Austen defined an entire literary genre with her shrewd social observations and wit. Her literary influence remains and the themes and lessons from her novels still hold up today..

Maya Angelou (1928 - 2014). Maya Angelou was a poet, singer, memoirist, and civil rights activist, whose award-winning memoir I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings made literary history as the first nonfiction best-seller by an African-American woman..

Catherine the Great (1729 – 1796). abstract. Catherine is credited for modernizing Russia and established the first state-funded school for girls, reeled back the power of the church within the state and encouraged the development of the economy, trade and the arts..

Marie Curie (1867 – 1934 ). Marie Curie was a pioneering physicist and scientist, who coined the term radioactivity, discovered two new elements (radium and polonium) and developed a portable x-ray machine . Currie was the first person (not woman) who has won two separate Noble Prizes, one for physics and another for chemistry, and to this day Curie is the only person, regardless of gender, to receive Noble prizes for two different sciences..

Ada Lovelace (1815 – 1852 ). Ada Lovelace was an English mathematician and the world’s first computer programmer. She is most famous for being the first person ever to publish an algorithm intended for a computer, her genius being years ahead of her time..

Amelia Earhart (1897 – 1939). An American aviator who became the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic and the first person ever to fly solo from Hawaii to the US, Amelia was a pioneering aviator and a true female trailblazer..

She remembered who she was and the game changed..