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Canadian currency will now feature its first Canadian woman
Civil rights icon Viola Desmond is often compared to Rosa Parks, for refusing to take a lesser seat based on racial discrimination laws.
Meet Aggretsuko, Sanrio's new character
Aggretsuko is the newest addition to the Hello Kitty universe: a hard-drinking office worker who sings heavy metal karaoke and dreams about quitting her frustrating job.
First Afghan Muppet is a girl promoting womens' rights
The Afghan co-production of Sesame Street, Baghch-e-Simsin, is adding its first local Muppet, Zari, to teach girls (and their parents) about having an education and a career.
Stacey Kozel
After lupus left her legs permanently paralyzed, Kozel found some leg braces that would help her stand and walk. So she decided to hike the 2,200-mile Appalachian Trail.
Vintage pictures of Female Firefighters
Some of those helmets are pretty awesome.
Malawian chief annuls child marriages, sends kids to school
Senior Chief Inkosi Kachindamoto annulled hundreds of marriages involving children so they could go to school.
Lyudmila Pavlichenko: the conclusion!
Just posted: the conclusion to the tale of Lyudmila Pavlichenko, history's deadliest female sniper! Click here to check it out!
The forgotten ambassadors: Japanese girls who gave all to build understanding with the West
In 1871, 5 young Japanese girls were sent to live in the US, to build understanding between the West and isolationist Japan. Their strange, heartbreaking story was all but forgotten, until now.
Jasmin Moghbeli
This Iranian-American marine is now one of NASA's newest astronauts.
Random Princesses
Josefina Guerrero
Let her leprosy go untreated for years to make herself the perfect spy in the Japan-occupied Philippines - soldiers wouldn't touch her, so she could slip right through.
Kurmanjan Datka
A clever woman who rose from obscurity to become a political force, playing nations against each other to protect her people.
Velu Nachiyar
With a dead husband and a hostile foreign country on her hands, this Indian queen did the unthinkable - turned her loyal servants into some of the first suicide bombers in recorded history.
Jezebel
Roundly-despised and unfairly-maligned seductress of the bible who ran afoul of the wrong priests.
Zenobia
3rd century Rome had a major woman problem. Her name was Zenobia, and she took over a huge chunk of their empire in her brief and tumultuous career as rebel queen.
Marie Marvingt
Ludicrously over-accomplished athlete who invented flying ambulances and won the only gold medal ever awarded by the French Academy of Sports for "all sports" - yes, all of them.
Artemisia Gentileschi
One of the greatest painters of the baroque, she revenged herself on her rapist both in the court of law…
Khawlah bint al-Azwar
When Byzantine forces captured her brother, this warrior poet donned the outfit of a black knight and went on a bloody rescue mission.
Sophie Morigeau
The only use this Canadian badass had for pretty pink bows was to adorn her own rib — which she amputated from her own body after an accident.
Nafanua
When an oppressive regime threatened her home, this Samoan war goddess took matters into her own hands.