Suffragette Parade, 23 October 1915.
Here are 10 famous women from history who helped create a better world.
Marie Curie, 18671934
Marie Curie, c1920.
Suffragette Parade, 23 October 1915. (Photo:Wikimedia Commons,CC BY 4.0)
Her research paved the way for new effective cancer treatments that are still used today.
There other one was in chemistry.
Curie developed different ways to separate radioactive isotopes and discovered two new elements: radium and polonium.
Marie Curie, c1920. (Photo:Wikimedia Commons, Public domain)
Radium is now used for many things, including to kill cancer cells.
Although Curie was becoming increasingly ill as she worked, she never lost her determination.
Rosa Parks, 19132005
Rosa Parks, 1955.
Rosa Parks, 1955. (Photo:Wikimedia Commons, Public domain)
The United States Congress called Parks the first lady of civil rights and the mother of the freedom movement.
The female activist was imprisoned 13 times, but never gave up the fight.
Ada Lovelace, 181552
Watercolor portrait of Ada Lovelace by Alfred Edward Chalon, c.1840.
Emmeline Pankhurst is arrested outside Buckingham Palace, London while trying to present a petition to HM King George V, May 1914. (Photo:Wikimedia Commons, Public domain)
In the 1970s, the computer language ADA was named after her.
Mary Wollstonecraft, 175997
Portrait of Mary Wollstonecraft by John Opie, c. 1797.
Shes best known for her book,A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, published in 1792.
Watercolor portrait of Ada Lovelace by Alfred Edward Chalon, c.1840. (Photo:Wikimedia Commons, Public domain)
However, Nightingale is best known for efforts to improve the qualities of hospitals.
She established St. Thomas Hospital and the Nightingale Training School for Nurses in 1860.
Her efforts to reform healthcare greatly improved the quality of care in the 19th and 20th centuries.
Portrait of Mary Wollstonecraft by John Opie, c. 1797. (Photo:Wikimedia Commons, Public domain)
During the Crimean War, Scutari Barracks was converted into a British military hospital.
When Nightingale arrived with her party of nurses in 1854, she was horrified by the filthy conditions.
Amelia Earhart, 18971937
Amelia Earhart, c. 1928.
Florence Nightingale, c.1860 (Photo:Wikimedia Commons, Public domain)
(Photo:Wikimedia Commons, Public domain)
Amelia Mary Earhartwas an American aviation pioneer and author.
However, Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan disappeared somewhere over the central Pacific Ocean, near Howland Island.
The explanation of their disappearance is still a mystery, however there are multiple theories.
Amelia Earhart, c. 1928. (Photo:Wikimedia Commons, Public domain)
A court order declared Earhart legally dead in January 1939.
She became an important figure for social causes including feminism.
Her paintings also explored female issues such as abortion and miscarriage.
Frida Kahlo, 1932 (Photo:Wikimedia Commons, Public domain)
These topics were considered taboo at the time, and were rarely spoken of in public.
Susan B. Anthony, 18201906
Susan B. Anthony, c. 1855.
In 1856, she became the New York state agent for the American Anti-Slavery Society.
Susan B. Anthony, c. 1855. (Photo:Wikimedia Commons, Public domain)
Sadly, Anthony never got to see the results of her efforts.
She died in 1906, 14 years before the passage of the 19th Amendment in 1920.
Shirley Chisholm, 19242005
Shirley Chisholm, 1972.
Shirley Chisholm, 1972. (Photo:Wikimedia Commons, Public domain)
She became known as a strong liberal who opposed weapon development and the war in Vietnam.
