She was the first female aviator to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean.
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She was the first woman to head a democratic government in a Muslim majority nation.
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She was the last Pharaoh of Egypt and the only woman to rule in her own right.
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She was a British princess and an activist who worked tirelessly for the homeless and those suffering from AIDS.
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She was an English political activist who organized the UK suffragette movement, and the founder of the Women's Social and Political Union.
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She was the first woman to be awarded the Order of Merit and the founder of modern nursing.
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She was an American computer scientist and United States Navy rear admiral, and a pioneer of computer programming who invented one of the first linkers.
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She was an American author, disability rights advocate, political activist and lecturer, and the first deafblind person to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree.
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She was the first female Prime Minister of India.
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She is an English primatologist and anthropologist, considered the world's foremost expert on chimpanzees.
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She was the most prominent member of the women's suffrage movement in New Zealand and the country's most famous suffragist.
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She is a Liberian peace activist responsible for leading a women's nonviolent peace movement that helped bring an end to the Second Liberian Civil War in 2003.
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She is an American engineer, physician, and former NASA astronaut, and the first black woman to travel into space.
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She was an American journalist, who was widely known for her record-breaking trip around the world in 72 days, in emulation of Jules Verne's fictional character Phileas Fogg.
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She is an African-American talk show host, television producer, actress, author, and philanthropist, known as the “Queen of All Media”.
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She was a seamstress, spy, and a heroine of the independence of Colombia.
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She was a Chinese revolutionary, feminist, and writer, considered a national heroine in China and a martyr of republicanism and feminism.
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She was an American activist in the civil rights movement best known for her pivotal role in the Montgomery bus boycott.
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She was an American astronaut and physicist, and the first American woman to fly in space.
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She was the first African-American woman to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
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She is a German politician who was elected as the president of the European Commission in 2019.
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She is a Russian cosmonaut known for being the first and youngest woman in space.
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She was a Kenyan social, environmental and a political activist, the founder of the Green Belt Movement, and the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize.
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She is a Mexican climate activist and member of the Indigenous Otomi community.
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She is a Japanese multimedia artist, singer, songwriter and peace activist.
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She was the first woman to receive the Pritzker Architecture Prize.
