Photos of women who influenced our world.
There are women who truly deserve respect and admiration. They are changing the story, go for broke, not afraid of change nor the ridicule of society, nor the dangers of life. They fly in the sky and even in space, voluntarily go with your favorite men in captivity, bravely saving children and… quietly drinking tea on the ruins of his house. These people play an important role in every age and in every period of history there are many women, worthy of respect and memory. It is these women and the subject of this post.
1. Muslim woman covers yellow star her Jewish neighbor veil that nobody saw. Sarajevo, former Yugoslavia. 1941.
2. Katherine Switzer became the first woman to run the Boston marathon, despite attempts by the organizer to stop her. 1967.
3. Afghan women in a public library before the Taliban seized power. Approx 1960s
4. A female samurai. The end of the 1800s
5. Swedish neo-Nazi has a bag. Presumably, this woman survived a concentration camp. 1985.
6. Marina Ginestà — 17-year-old Communist — against the backdrop of Barcelona during the Spanish civil war. 1936.
7. Anna Fisher — “the first mother in space”. 1980s
8. Jian Manford walks beside his son’s gay during a gay pride parade. 1972. Later, Diann created the group “Parents, families and friends of lesbians and gays”.
9. Maud Wagner, the first well known woman tattoo artist in the United States. 1907.
10. Women Boxing on a rooftop in Los Angeles. 1933.
11. Sabiha gökçen of Turkey on his plane in 1937. She became the first female fighter pilot.
12. Woman drinking tea on the ruins of his house after the bombing of London. 1940. So the brave British women brought to life a legendary slogan of the Second world Keep calm and carry on.
13. 106 year old Armenian woman guards his own house with an AK-47. 1990.
14. Volunteers learn to extinguish fires in pearl Harbor. OK. 1941-1945.
15. Ukrainian girl gives a drink to Soviet prisoner of war. 1941.
16. A female Mason over Berlin. 1900.
17. Photographer Margaret Bourke-white on the Chrysler building. 1934.
18. Railroad workers at lunch. Many of them are even wives and mothers of men who went to war. 1943.
19. One of the first women sworn into the marine corps of the United States. August 1918.
20. Girls deliver heavy ice blocks after male part of the workforce was called up for war. 1918.
21. Girls famous biker gang “hell’s Angels”. 1973.
22. Ellen O’neal was one of the first professional skeitbordisti. 1976.
23. Paris mother close their children from German snipers. 1944.
24. Welder Winnie. She was one of 2,000 women who worked in the shipyards of the United States during the Second world war.
25. Two girls for the first time appeared in public with bare feet. Toronto. 1937.
26. Philippine guerrilla Nieves Fernandez shows to an American soldier how she killed Japanese soldiers during the occupation. 1944.
27. The Dutch refused to leave her husband — a German soldier after he was captured. She followed him. 1944.
28. Komako Kimura, a famous suffragette in new York. 23 Oct 1917.
29. Elspeth Baird during his attempt to become the first Englishwoman, traveled the world on a motorcycle. 1980-ies. The journey took 3 years, during which she overcame more than 77,000 km.
30. Gertrude Ederle became the first woman to swim the English channel. 1926.
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