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International Women’s Day 2020
roles in changing the world
assemblies, in which she urges immediate action to address what she describes as the climate crisis.
EVA PERON
Eva Peron was widely loved by the ordinary people of
Argentina.
She became
powerful
within
the pro-
Peronist
trade
unions,
primarily
for
speaking
on behalf of
labour rights.
She also ran the ministries of labour and health, founded and ran the charitable Eva Perón Foundation, championed women’s suffrage in Argentina.
BETTY FRIEDAN
Betty Friedan was an American feminist writer and activist. She was a leading figure in the women’s movement in the United States, and her 1963 book The Feminine Mystique is often credited with sparking the second wave of American feminism in the
20th century
MARIE CURIE
Marie Curie was
a Polish and naturalised-
French physicist
and chemist
who conducted pioneering research on radioactivity. She was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, is
the first person and the only woman to win the Nobel prize twice, and is the only person to win the Nobel Prize in two different scientific fields.
ANNE FRANK
young, yet surprisingly mature 13-year-
old girl, confined to a secret hiding place.
GERMAINE
GREER
Germaine Greer
is regarded as one
of the major voices of the feminist movement in the latter half of the 20th century. Greer’s ideas have created controversy ever since her first book, The Female Eunuch (1970), made her a household name.
BILLIE JEAN KING
Billie Jean King is
an American former world number one professional tennis player who won 39 Grand Slam titles and often represented the United States in the
Federation Cup and the Wightman Cup. She is
an advocate for gender
equality and has
long been a pioneer for equality
and social justice.
Benazir Bhutto
Benazir Bhutto was a Pakistani
politician who served as
in Hollywood for more than 60 years and
appeared in a range of genres, from
screwball comedy to literary drama.
MADONNA
Madonna is an American
singer, songwriter,
actress, and businesswoman.
Referred to as the “Queen of Pop”
since the 1980s, Madonna is known for pushing the boundaries of songwriting in mainstream popular music and for the imagery she uses onstage and in music videos. She has frequently reinvented her music and image while maintaining autonomy within the recording industry.
She is often cited
as an influence by other female artists. Having sold more than 300 million records worldwide, Madonna is noted as the bestselling
Anne Frank
was a Dutch-Jewish diarist who gained fame posthumously with
the publication of The Diary of a Young Girl, in which she documents her life in hiding from 1942 to 1944, during the German occupation of the Netherlands in the Second World War. It reveals the thoughts of a
Prime Minister
of Pakistan from 1988
to 1990 and again
from 1993 to 1996. She was the first woman
to head a democratic government in a Muslim majority nation.
OPRAH WINFREY
Oprah Winfrey is
an American media executive, actress, talk show host, television producer, and philanthropist best known for her talk show, The Oprah Winfrey Show. Itwas the highest-rated television program of its kind
in history
and ran in
national
syndication
for 25 years
from 1986 to
2011.
KATHARINE HEPBURN
Silver scr een icon Katharine Hepburn won four Oscars and received a number of other nominations. She was a leading lady
female recording artist of all time by Guinness World Records