Women who Changed History

There are women who are truly worthy of respect and admiration. They change history, go all-in, are not afraid of any changes, nor the ridicule of society, nor the dangers to life. They fly into the sky and even into space, voluntarily go into captivity with their beloved husbands, bravely save children and ... calmly drink tea on the ruins of their house. Such people play an important role in every era, and there are many women worthy of respect and memory in every segment of history. It is to such women that this post is dedicated.

1. A Muslim woman covers the yellow star of her Jewish neighbor with a veil so that no one sees her. Sarajevo, former Yugoslavia. 1941.

2. Katherine Switzer became the first woman to run the Boston Marathon, despite the organizer's attempts to stop her. 1967.

3. Afghan women in a public library long before the Taliban seized power. Circa the 1960s.

4. Female samurai. The end of the 1800s.

5. A Swedish woman beats a neo-Nazi with a bag. Presumably, this woman survived the concentration camp. 1985.

6. Marina Hinesta — a 17-year-old communist — against the backdrop of Barcelona during the Spanish Civil War. 1936.

7. Anna Fischer — "the first mother in space". The 1980s.

8. Giann Manford walks next to her gay son during the gay pride parade. 1972. Later, Giann created the group "Parents, Families and Friends of lesbians and Gays."

9. Maud Wagner is the first well-known female tattoo artist in the USA. 1907.

10. Women are engaged in boxing on the roof in Los Angeles. 1933.

11. Sabiha Gokcen from Turkey on his plane in 1937. She became the first female fighter pilot.

12. A woman drinks tea on the ruins of her house after the bombing of London. 1940. So the brave British women brought to life the legendary slogan of the Second World War Keep calm and carry on.

13. A 106-year-old Armenian woman guards her house with an AK-47 assault rifle. 1990.

14. Volunteers learn how to extinguish fires in Pearl Harbor. Ok. 1941-1945.

15. A Ukrainian girl gives a drink to a Soviet prisoner of war. 1941.

16. A female bricklayer over Berlin. 1900.

17. Photographer Margaret Bourke-White on the Chrysler Building. 1934.

18. Railway workers at lunch. Many of them are wives and even mothers of men who went to war. 1943.

19. One of the first women sworn into the U.S. Marine Corps. August 1918.

20. Girls deliver heavy blocks of ice after the male part of the workforce was called up for war. 1918.

21. The girls of the famous biker gang "Hells Angels". 1973.

22. Ellen O'Neill is one of the first professional skateboarders. 1976.

23. Parisian mothers hide their children from German snipers. 1944.

24. Welder Winnie. She was one of 2,000 women who worked in U.S. shipyards during World War II.

25. Two girls appeared in public for the first time with bare legs. Toronto. 1937.

26. Filipino guerrilla Nives Fernandez shows an American soldier how she killed Japanese soldiers during the occupation. 1944.

27. A Dutch woman refused to leave her husband, a German soldier, after he was captured. She followed him. 1944.

28. Komako Kimura — famous suffragette — in New York. October 23, 1917.

29. Elspeth Bird during her attempt to become the first Englishwoman to ride around the world on a motorcycle. The 1980s. The journey took 3 years, during which she covered more than 77,000 km.

30. Gertrude Ederle became the first woman to cross the English Channel. 1926.

31. A suffragette protests after a "Night of Terror." 1917. 33 suffragettes were arrested for "blocking roads", after which they were severely beaten by jailers.

32. A mother plays with her daughter on the beach. The 1950s.

33. Aviator Amelia Earhart became the first woman to fly by plane across the Atlantic Ocean. 1928.

34. Afghan women study anatomy. 1962.

35. A British sergeant trains women from the "army of mothers" during the Battle of Britain. 1940.

36. A cult photo of a pea collector and a mother of seven children during a dusty cauldron. 1936.

37. Women's Rights Movement in Detroit, Michigan. 1970.

38. Women's Roller Derby League in New York. March 10, 1950.

39. The first women's basketball team from Smith College. 1902.

40. 18-year-old member of the French resistance Simone Segwan during the liberation of Paris. August 19, 1944.

41. A Los Angeles police officer looks after an abandoned child. 1971.

42. Female snipers of the Soviet Army. May 4, 1945.

43. Activist Annie Lampkins in the Little Rock City Jail. 1961.

44. Annette Kellerman poses in a swimsuit, for which she was arrested on charges of obscenity. 1907.

45. A mother shows a photo of her son to returning prisoners of war, trying to find him. Vienna, 1947.

46. Leola N. King — the first female US guard — in Washington, DC. 1918.

47. Erika is a 15—year-old girl fighter, a participant in the Hungarian uprising against the pro-Soviet regime of the People's Republic. October 1956.

48. American nurses landed in Normandy. 1944.

49. A Lockheed employee is working on a Lockheed P-38 Lightning aircraft. Burbank, California, 1944.

50. A Red Cross nurse records the last words of a British soldier. Ok. 1917.

51. Female pilots have just come out of the B-17 aircraft. OK. 1941-1945.

52. 21-year—old Sarla Takral is the first Indian woman to receive a pilot's license. 1936.